公开(公告)号：US20250005279A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-02

申请号：US18215505

申请日：2023-06-28

Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)

Inventor： Shih-Ting Lin ,  Prithvishankar Srinivasan ,  Saurav Manchanda ,  Shishir Kumar Prasad ,  Min Xie

IPC: G06F40/247 ,  G06F16/21 ,  G06F16/215 ,  G06F16/28

Abstract: A computer system uses clustering and a large language model (LLM) to normalize attribute tuples for items stored in a database of an online system. The online system collects attribute tuples, each attribute tuple comprising an attribute type and an attribute value for an item. The online system initially clusters the attribute tuples into a first plurality of clusters. The online system generates prompts for input into the LLM, each prompt including a subset of attribute tuples grouped into a respective cluster of the first plurality. Based on the prompts, the LLM generates a second plurality of clusters, each cluster including one or more attribute tuples that have a common attribute type and a common attribute value. The online system maps each attribute tuple to a respective normalized attribute tuple associated with each cluster. The online system rewrites each attribute tuple in the database to a corresponding normalized attribute tuple.

公开(公告)号：US20240394771A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-28

申请号：US18202768

申请日：2023-05-26

Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)

Inventor： Shrikar Archak ,  Shishir Kumar Prasad

IPC: G06Q30/0601 ,  G06Q30/08

Abstract: Embodiments relate to automatically generating a basket of items to be recommended to a user of an online system. The online system communicates a basket opportunity to a group of retailers, wherein the basket opportunity defines a plurality of item categories each associated with a respective item to be included in a basket. The online system receives, from each retailer in response to the basket opportunity, a respective bid of a plurality of bids for the basket opportunity. The online system applies a computer model to each bid to determine a score for each bid and selects a winning bid for the user based on determined scores for the bids. For each item category, the online system populates the basket with a respective item from a catalog of a retailer that is associated with the winning bid. The online system then presents the basket with items to the user.

公开(公告)号：US20240070393A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-29

申请号：US17821889

申请日：2022-08-24

Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)

Inventor： Shishir Kumar Prasad ,  Cameron Nicholas Taylor ,  John Salaveria ,  Joey Loi ,  Kevin McCullough

IPC: G06F40/284 ,  G06Q30/06

CPC classification number: G06F40/284 ,  G06Q30/0621

Abstract: An online concierge system generates suggested instructions for presentation to a user. The online concierge system access instruction examples corresponding to a target item category and generates candidate instruction representations based on instruction messages within each instruction example. The online concierge system generates preliminary scores for the candidate instruction representations that are directly related to an intra-category frequency of use of the instruction tokens of the candidate instruction representation within the target item category. The online system normalizes these preliminary scores for the candidate instruction representations based on the inter-category frequency of use of the instruction tokens in all item categories to generate final scores for the candidate instruction representations. The online concierge system selects a set of instruction representations based on these final scores and generates suggested instructions based on the set of instruction representations.

公开(公告)号：US20220292567A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-15

申请号：US17196855

申请日：2021-03-09

Applicant: Maplebear, Inc. (dba Instacart)

Inventor： Shishir Kumar Prasad ,  Sharath Rao Karikurve ,  Abhay Pawar

IPC: G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06F16/28 ,  G06F16/2457 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: An online concierge system accesses a hierarchical taxonomy of products each labeled with a category of the hierarchical taxonomy. The online concierge system receives, from an inventory database, an unlabeled product, which not included in the hierarchical taxonomy. The online concierge system inputs the unlabeled product to a replacement model. The replacement model is trained to output, for each of one or more labeled products from the hierarchical taxonomy, a likelihood that a user would select the labeled product as a replacement for an input product. The online concierge system selects a labeled product from the one or more labeled products based on the likelihoods. The online concierge system adds the unlabeled product to a category of the hierarchical taxonomy based on the selected labeled product.

公开(公告)号：US20250095044A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

申请号：US18965973

申请日：2024-12-02

Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)

Inventor： Shishir Kumar Prasad ,  Sharath Rao Karikurve

IPC: G06Q30/0601 ,  G06F16/953

Abstract: An online concierge system may determine recommended search terms for a user. The online concierge system may receive a request from a user to view a user interface configured to receive a search query. The online concierge system retrieves long-term activity data including previous search terms entered by the user while searching for items to add to an online shopping cart. For each previous search term, the online concierge system retrieves categorical search terms corresponding to one or more categories to which the previous search term was mapped. The online concierge system determines a set of nearby categorical search terms and sends, for display via a client device, the set of nearby categorical search terms as recommended search terms.

公开(公告)号：US20220335505A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-20

申请号：US17230816

申请日：2021-04-14

Applicant: Maplebear, Inc.(dba Instacart)

Inventor： Shishir Kumar Prasad ,  Sharath Rao Karikurve ,  Diego Goyret

IPC: G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06N5/04

Abstract: An online concierge system allows users to order items from a warehouse having multiple physical locations, allowing a user to order items at any given warehouse location. To select a warehouse location for a warehouse selected by a user, the online concierge system identifies a set of items that the user has a threshold likelihood of purchasing from prior orders by the user. For each of a set of warehouse locations, the online concierge system applies a machine-learned item availability model to each item of the identified set. From the availabilities of items of the set at each warehouse location of the set, the online concierge system selects a warehouse location. The online concierge system identifies an inventory of items from the selected warehouse location to the user for inclusion in an order.

公开(公告)号：US20230139335A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-04

申请号：US18090506

申请日：2022-12-29

Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)

Inventor： Shishir Kumar Prasad ,  Sharath Rao Karikurve

IPC: G06Q30/0601 ,  G06F16/953

Abstract: An online concierge system may determine recommended search terms for a user. The online concierge system may receive a request from a user to view a user interface configured to receive a search query. The online concierge system retrieves long-term activity data including previous search terms entered by the user while searching for items to add to an online shopping cart. For each previous search term, the online concierge system retrieves categorical search terms corresponding to one or more categories to which the previous search term was mapped. The online concierge system determines a set of nearby categorical search terms and sends, for display via a client device, the set of nearby categorical search terms as recommended search terms.

公开(公告)号：US20230132730A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-04

申请号：US17515399

申请日：2021-10-30

Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)

Inventor： Shishir Kumar Prasad ,  Natalia Botía ,  Diego Goyret ,  Allan Stewart ,  Douglas Mill ,  Andrew Wong ,  Yao Zhou

IPC: G06Q30/06 ,  G06F16/2457

Abstract: An online concierge system maintains a taxonomy associating one or more specific items offered by a warehouse with a category. When the online concierge system receives a selection of an item from a user for inclusion in an order, the online concierge system determines a category including the selected item. From prior received orders, the online concierge system 102 identifies additional categories including one or more items included in various prior received orders. Based on cooccurrences of the category and the additional categories, the online concierge system generates scores for the additional categories. An additional category is selected based on the scores and specific items from the selected additional category are displayed via an interface for selection by the user.

公开(公告)号：US20230056148A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-23

申请号：US17406027

申请日：2021-08-18

Applicant: Maplebear Inc.(dba Instacart)

Inventor： Negin Entezari ,  Sharath Rao Karikurve ,  Shishir Kumar Prasad ,  Haixun Wang

IPC: G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q10/08

Abstract: An online concierge shopping system identifies candidate items to a user for inclusion in an order based on prior user inclusion of items in orders and items currently included in the order. From a multi-dimensional tensor generated from cooccurrences of items in orders from various users, the online concierge system generates item embeddings and user embeddings in a common latent space by decomposing the multi-dimensional tensor. From items included in an order, the online concierge system generates an order embedding from item embeddings of the items included in the order. Scores for candidate items are determined based on similarity of item embeddings for the candidate items to the order embedding. Candidate items are selected based on their scores, with the selected candidate items identified to the user.

公开(公告)号：US20210287271A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-16

申请号：US16815846

申请日：2020-03-11

Applicant: Maplebear, Inc.(dba Instacart)

Inventor： Shishir Kumar Prasad ,  Sharath Rao

IPC: G06Q30/06 ,  G06F16/953

Abstract: An online concierge system may determine recommended search terms for a user. The online concierge system may receive a request from a user to view a user interface configured to receive a search query. The online concierge system retrieves long-term activity data including previous search terms entered by the user while searching for items to add to an online shopping cart. For each previous search term, the online concierge system retrieves categorical search terms corresponding to one or more categories to which the previous search term was mapped. The online concierge system determines a set of nearby categorical search terms and sends, for display via a client device, the set of nearby categorical search terms as recommended search terms.