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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2021
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Chuanwei Ruan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Diego Goyret, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Tilman Drerup, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rob Donnelly, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An online concierge system allows users to purchase items from warehouses and delivers the purchased items to the users. When displaying items offered by a warehouse, the online concierge system predicts an availability of the items at the warehouse using a trained model. When displaying items offered by the warehouse to a user, the online concierge system accounts for the predicted availabilities of different items. For example, the online concierge system determines scores for different items at the warehouse based on relevance to the user and adjusts a score for an item by its predicted availability. The online concierge system uses the adjusted scores for items when displaying items, demoting positions in an interface in which items with lower predicted availabilities are displayed. Additionally, the online concierge system may display a visual indication of a predicted availability of certain items, such as items with less than a threshold predicted availability.