查看更多>>摘要:By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journali sts report that a patent application by the inventors Chen, Michael (San Francis co, CA, US); Gao, Yuan (San Mateo, CA, US); Grisell, Caleb (Los Angeles, CA, US) ; Kim, Matthew Donghyun (Seattle, WA, US); Mclean, Adrian (Petaluma, CA, US); Sa mpat, Ajay Pankaj (San Francisco, CA, US); Tanasyuk, Marina (San Francisco, CA, US); Xu, Youdan (Burlingame, CA, US), filed on February 23, 2023, was made avail able online on August 29, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“In an online concierge system, customers may select items for ordering, procurement, and delivery from physical retailers or other warehou ses. The online concierge system assigns orders to available shoppers that fulfi ll the orders for a fee. In such a system, the supply and demand for shoppers ca n vary significantly over different times of day, different days of the week, du ring holidays, or based on various other factors. To reduce disparities in suppl y and demand, the online concierge system may employ a surge pricing model in wh ich the wages offered to shoppers dynamically adapt under various conditions. Ho wever, there is a tradeoff between the additional costs associated with surge pr icing versus the benefit of encouraging more shoppers to fulfill orders during a given time period. Effective deployment of an optimal surge pricing model thus remains a challenge.”