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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2023
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Mingzhe Zhuang, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Camille Van Horne, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Rudnick, Pacifica, CA (US);
Benjamin Knight, Oakland, CA (US);
Chris Jenkins, Thornton, CO (US);
Viktoriya Andonova, San Francisco, CA (US);
Djordje Gluhovic, Oakland, CA (US);
Riddhima Sejpal, Dublin, CA (US);
Maksim Golivkin, Oakland, CA (US);
Sharath Rao Karikurve, Berkeley, CA (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Based on orders fulfilled by shoppers of an online concierge system, the online concierge system identifies items in an order that are difficult to find in a warehouse in which the order is fulfilled. When a shopper obtains a difficult to find item from the warehouse, the online concierge system prompts the shopper to provide information for finding the difficult to find item in the warehouse. The online concierge system stores the information for finding the difficult to find item from the shopper in association with the difficult to find item and with the warehouse. Subsequently, when a different shopper is fulfilling an order from the warehouse including the difficult to find item, the online concierge system displays the information for finding the difficult to find item in the warehouse to the different shopper.