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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2022
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Cameron Nicholas Taylor, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Robert Fletcher, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Pedro Tanure Veloso, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tilman Drerup, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rob Donnelly, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ben Lowenstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Wean, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An online concierge system fulfills orders for items offered by retailers and may increase the price of an item offered by a retailer in some instances. The online concierge system applies a markup to an item by applying a pricing policy to a category including the item. To optimize application of pricing policies to categories, the online concierge system categorizes items offered by the retailer and applies an outcome model to combinations of categories and pricing policies. From the output of the outcome model, the online concierge system selects a set of categories and corresponding pricing policies. Using a price adjustment model, the online concierge system determines modifications to one or more of the pricing policies of the set to enforce one or more constraints across multiple pricing policies.