{
  "patent_number": "US 10133995",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "Square's System for Predicting Orders and Guiding Couriers",
  "original_title": "Courier network management",
  "summary": "This 2018 patent from Square describes a system that predicts which restaurants will get orders and tells delivery drivers where to wait to be ready.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent details a system designed to make food delivery more efficient. It analyzes past order data for many restaurants to predict which ones will receive orders during specific times and days. The system also estimates how long it will take to prepare those orders. Based on these predictions, and knowing where delivery drivers are, it tells drivers to move to specific waiting spots. This way, drivers can be closer to a restaurant just as an order is ready for pickup, reducing wait times for everyone.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Systems that do not predict future orders based on past order information.",
    "Systems that do not estimate order preparation times.",
    "Systems that do not direct couriers to specific waiting locations before an order is ready.",
    "Systems that do not consider the time of day or day of the week for predictions.",
    "Systems that do not manage a network of 'active' couriers who are available for assignments."
  ],
  "filed": "2015-02-19",
  "granted": "2018-11-20",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Square Inc",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/square-inc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Jeffrey Frank Iacono",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/jeffrey-frank-iacono"
    },
    {
      "name": "Richard David Din",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/richard-david-din"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jesse Lee Reiss",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/jesse-lee-reiss"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ajit Kalidindi Varma",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/ajit-kalidindi-varma"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 63,
  "tags": [
    "software",
    "ecommerce",
    "logistics",
    "ai_ml"
  ],
  "abstract": "In some examples, a service provider may determine, for a time of day and a day of a week, orders received by individual merchants of a plurality of merchants over a past period of time. The service provider may further determine, for the time of day and day of the week, based at least in part on the orders received over the past period of time, a first merchant predicted to receive an order. Based at least in part on a pickup location of the first merchant, the service provider may send a communication to a first courier device associated with a first courier of a plurality of couriers. For example, the communication may include location information for a recommended location to which the first courier is to move to be in position for picking up an order from the merchant that is predicted to receive the order.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10133995/airbnb-host-guest-messaging",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10133995/airbnb-host-guest-messaging/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US10133995",
  "relatedPatents": []
}