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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2022
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Rockson Chang, Somerville, MA (US);
Licheng Yin, Burlingame, CA (US);
Chen Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Chen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aaron Dou, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Radhika Anand, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nicholas Sturm, Denver, CO (US);
Ajay Pankaj Sampat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to determining shopper-location pairs. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure may identify a set of available shoppers associated with an online shopping concierge platform and located in a geographic area; identify a set of available warehouse locations associated with the online shopping concierge platform and located in the geographic area; and determine, based at least in part on the set of available shoppers, the set of available warehouse locations, and one or more machine learning (ML) models, a set of shopper-location pairs optimized based at least in part on time required by the set of available shoppers to travel from their respective current locations to one or more of the set of available warehouse locations.