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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2024
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Georgios Rovatsos, San Francisco, CA (US);
Saeed Ahmadian, Seattle, WA (US);
Ahinoam Pollack, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sandip Bhattacharjee, Bangalore, IN;
Anurag Das, Bangalore, IN;
Aman Avilash, Bangalore, IN;
Changzheng Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wei Shen, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for automatically computing biddings for cold items are disclosed. A first bid value is computed and submitted for a first bidding for a first set of items each having a predicted sales metric larger than a first threshold in a first time period. From the first set of items, a second set of items are selected that have a traffic metric smaller than a second threshold in a second time period. Each item in the second set is assigned to one of a plurality of clusters. A second bid value is computed for each cluster based on cluster-level metrics and a click distribution among the plurality of clusters. An updated bid value is computed, for each item in the second set, to be submitted for a second bidding, based on the second bid value for a cluster to which the item is assigned.