Patent ID: 11868961
Assignee: MAPLEBEAR INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein apply the optimization function to a combination comprising the first pair including the first item and the first region within the online concierge system-specific portion of the warehouse and the second pair including the second item and the second region within the online concierge system-specific portion of the warehouse comprises:
determine a co-occurrence value as a product of a distance between the first region and the second region, a co-occurrence score of the first item and the second item based on a number of co-occurrences of the first item and the second item in the previously received orders, a predicted number of orders including the first item, and a predicted number of orders including the second item;
determine a similarity value by multiplying the measure of similarity between the first item and the second item, a predicted number of orders in which the first item is found, and a predicted number of orders in which the second item is found; and
determine a value for the combination by dividing the co-occurrence value by the similarity value.