70 patents
Utility
Allocating Shoppers and Orders for Fulfillment by an Online Concierge System to Account for Variable Numbers of Shoppers Across Different Time Windows
18 Jan 24
An online concierge system receives two types of orders, one of which requires fulfillment in a specific time interval, while the other can be fulfilled anytime up to a specific time interval.
Jagannath Putrevu, Zi Wang, Site Wang, Houtao Deng, Yijia Chen, Mingzhe Zhuang, Ji Chen, Deepak Tirumalasetty
Filed: 25 Sep 23
Utility
Identifying Candidate Replacement Items from a Graph Identifying Relationships Between Items Maintained by an Online Concierge System
18 Jan 24
An online concierge system maintains a graph of items available for purchase.
Abhay Pawar
Filed: 25 Sep 23
Utility
User Interface That Pre-populates Items In an Order Module for a User of an Online Concierge System Using a Prediction Model
18 Jan 24
An online concierge system maintains historical orders received from a user that include one or more items.
Weian Sheng, Peng Qi, Changyao Chen
Filed: 29 Sep 23
Utility
Recommendations based on private data using a dynamically deployed pre-filter
16 Jan 24
A method for targeted advertisement includes transmitting a pre-filter to the user device, responsive to contextual information from a user device, to determine, using a processor, one or more inferences based on physical browsing information, collected at the user device, in compliance with one or more privacy policies of the user.
Supriyo Chakraborty, Keith Grueneberg, Bongjun Ko, Christian Makaya, Jorge J. Ortiz, Swati Rallapalli, Theodoros Salonidis, Rahul Urgaonkar, Dinesh Verma, Xiping Wang
Filed: 6 Oct 22
Utility
Machine learning model for determining a time interval to delay batching decision for an order received by an online concierge system to combine orders while minimizing probability of late fulfillment
16 Jan 24
An online concierge identifies orders to shoppers, allowing shoppers to select orders for fulfillment.
Reza Faturechi, Site Wang, Jagannath Putrevu
Filed: 2 Feb 22
Utility
Identifying items offered by an online concierge system for a received query based on a graph identifying relationships between items and attributes of the items
9 Jan 24
An online concierge system generates a graph connecting items with attributes of the items and other items.
Tejaswi Tenneti, Aditya Subramanian, Shrikar Archak, Tyler Russell Tate, Jonathan Lennart Bender
Filed: 28 Jan 21
Utility
Creation and arrangement of items in an online concierge system-specific portion of a warehouse for order fulfillment
9 Jan 24
A warehouse from which shoppers fulfill orders for an online concierge system maintains an online concierge system-specific portion for which the online concierge system specifies placement of items in regions.
Joey Loi, Viswa Mani Kiran Peddinti
Filed: 21 Apr 22
Utility
Certified Deliveries of High-value Items
4 Jan 24
An online system receives, from a customer mobile application (CMA) an order including an item that requires verification of delivery.
Anastasija Kovalova, Neera Chatterjee
Filed: 14 Sep 23
Utility
Machine learning model for click through rate prediction using three vector representations
2 Jan 24
An online concierge system uses a machine learning click through rate model to select promoted items based on user embeddings, item embeddings, and search query embeddings.
Ramasubramanian Balasubramanian, Saurav Manchanda
Filed: 28 Oct 21
Utility
Fraud prevention using audio pairing of devices
2 Jan 24
When an online system receives an order from a customer, the online system can fulfill the order (for example, using a picker to acquire and deliver the ordered items) and use audio verification to verify delivery.
Dylan Wang
Filed: 26 Apr 21
Utility
Leveraging Information About Prior Orders from Various Users Associated with an Account When Receiving an Order from a User Associated with the Account
28 Dec 23
Multiple users of a household can each have a different profile associated with a common account for an online concierge system.
Daniel Hsiao, Jason Scott, Matthew Brooks, Rohan Salantry, Daniel Shilov, Christos Christoudias
Filed: 8 Sep 23
Utility
Method and system for domain-adaptive content suggestion for an online concierge system
19 Dec 23
An online concierge system uses a domain-adaptive suggestion module to score products that may be presented to a user as suggestions in response to a user's search query.
Saurav Manchanda, Ramasubramanian Balasubramanian
Filed: 14 Dec 21
Utility
Attribute node widgets in search results from an item graph
12 Dec 23
An online concierge system generates an item graph connecting item nodes with attribute nodes of the items.
Jonathan Lennart Bender, Tyler Russell Tate, Tejaswi Tenneti, Qingyuan Chen
Filed: 16 Mar 23
Utility
Determining Estimated Delivery Time of Items Obtained from a Warehouse for Users of an Online Concierge System to Reduce Probabilities of Delivery after the Estimated Delivery Time
7 Dec 23
An online concierge system displays an interface to a user identifying an estimated time of arrival for an order.
Zi Wang, Ji Chen, Houtao Deng, Soren Zeliger, Yijia Chen
Filed: 17 Aug 23
Utility
Picking Sequence Optimization Within a Warehouse for an Item List
7 Dec 23
An online concierge system receives a delivery order containing a list of items, generates a suggested picking sequence for picking the delivery order in a warehouse, and transmits the suggested picking sequence to a mobile device of the shopper.
Xinyu Li, Haixun Wang, Ruoming Jin
Filed: 17 Aug 23
Utility
Determining Generic Items for Orders on an Online Concierge System
7 Dec 23
An online system provides options for selection by a user.
Tyler Russell Tate, Jason Scott, Logan William Murdock, Tejaswi Tenneti
Filed: 21 Aug 23
Utility
Machine-learned Model for Optmizing Selection Sequence for Items In a Warehouse
7 Dec 23
An online shopping concierge system sorts a list of items to be picked in a warehouse by receiving data identifying a warehouse and items to be picked by a picker in the warehouse.
Jeremy Stanley, Montana Low, Nima Zahedi
Filed: 22 Aug 23
Utility
Geofencing to Reduce Wait Times for Order Pickups
30 Nov 23
A system receives an order from one or more user client devices associated with an account of the system, and transmits a first notification to the one or more user client devices that an order is ready for pick up at a pickup location.
Daniel Hsiao, Jason Scott, Michael Jablonski, Nima Zahedi
Filed: 15 Aug 23
Utility
Weight measurement adjustment and inhibition based on sensor measurements
28 Nov 23
Disclosed herein relates to a system, comprising: at least one load receiver mounted on a shopping cart or basket and configured to receive an item placed into the shopping cart or basket for a weighing operation; a plurality of sensors configured to detect a plurality of parameters relating to the weighing operation of the item including at least one of: a relative angle between a force sensing axis of the at least one load receiver and a direction of gravity, a motion of the shopping cart or basket, and an ambient temperature surrounding the shopping cart or basket and the at least one load receiver; and a processor configured to determine an actual weight of the item based on at least a portion of the plurality of parameters.
Lin Gao, Michael Joseph Sanzari, Yilin Huang, Shiyuan Yang, Ahmed Beshry
Filed: 24 Aug 22
Utility
Adjusting demand for order fulfillment during various time intervals for order fulfillment by an online concierge system
28 Nov 23
An online concierge system allows users to order items within discrete time intervals later than a time when an order was received or for short-term fulfillment when the order was received.
Houtao Deng, Ji Chen, Zi Wang, Soren Zeliger, Ganesh Krishnan, Wa Yuan, Michael Scheibe
Filed: 29 Jul 21