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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2024
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Brent Scheibelhut, Toronto, CA;
Charles Wesley, San Diego, CA (US);
Naval Shah, Toronto, CA;
Mark Oberemk, Toronto, CA;
Madeline Mesard, New York, NY (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An online system trains a ceiling prediction model to determine a user's ceiling for one or more item categories. The user's ceiling for an item category is a maximum amount of an item within the item category the user is likely to include in an order. Based on previously fulfilled orders for the user, information describing a current order from the user, and contextual information about the order, the ceiling prediction model determines the user's ceiling for an item category. The online system leverages the user's ceiling for an item category to refine content about different items that is selected for presentation to a user. For example, the online system determines whether the order includes a quantity of items from an item category that equals the user's ceiling for the item category when determining which items to present to the user.