Patents Assigned to DoorDash, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12075948
    Abstract: A system includes a carousel apparatus including: first openings concentrically arranged around axis to hold first containers adapted to hold first food ingredients, second openings concentrically arranged inside the first openings to hold second containers adapted to hold second food ingredients, a holder in which the first openings and the second openings are formed, and which is adapted to support the first containers and the second containers, and a first motor coupled to the holder and adapted to rotate the holder around the axis; support structure configured to hold a receptacle; and a linear actuator apparatus configured to move the support structure and including: a linear guide which extends underneath the holder and is coupled to the support structure, and a second motor coupled to the linear guide and adapted to move the support structure along the linear guide underneath the first openings and the second openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Michael De Vitis, Kort Edward Reinecke, Naikang Kuan
  • Publication number: 20240289744
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a server computer comprising a machine learning model, a fulfillment request including an address from an end user device operated by an end user. The method also includes determining an address type associated with the address, and performing, by the server computer, further processing based upon the address type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Sushil Vellanki, Xun Liu, Aniket Patil, Rohit Ramkumar, Saloni Choudhary
  • Patent number: 12050461
    Abstract: A remote vehicle control system includes a vehicle mounted sensor system including a video camera system for producing video data. A data handling system is connected to a network to transmit data to and receive data from a remote teleoperation site. A virtual control system is configured to receive the video, provide a user with a live video stream supported by machine intelligence directed frame synthesis, and transmit control instructions to the remote vehicle over the network. The frame synthesis is supported by a convolutional neural network. The frame synthesis may be used to interpolate frames to increase effective frames per second. The frame synthesis may be used to extrapolate frames to replace missing or damaged video frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: DOORDASH, INC.
    Inventor: Alexander Beer Weiss
  • Patent number: 12038298
    Abstract: Concepts for generating navigation instructions for a driver of a vehicle are presented. One example, includes obtaining a current location of the vehicle, a route for the vehicle from the current location to a target destination, and a captured image of the surrounding environment of the vehicle, the image having a field of view comprising at least part of a field of view of the driver. An object is identified in the captured image. Navigation instructions for the driver are generated based on the current location of the vehicle, the route for the vehicle and the object identified in the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Graham White, Andrew S. Feltham
  • Patent number: 12022982
    Abstract: A method for operating an automated food making apparatus having a motor, actuator arm, and an apparatus. The apparatus may be a paddle with flexible fins. The method rotates the paddle with a pin-shaft mechanism to dispense an ingredient placed in a canister, controls the motor automatically based on weight sensor readings, and locates a position of the actuator arm with position sensors. The same motor dispenses ingredients from a plurality of canisters. The method may have a plurality of paddle rotation and weight measurement steps until a target weight is reached. The plurality of paddle rotation steps may be unidirectional or bidirectional paddle rotation. The paddle may be rotated according to one or more paddle rotation algorithms, an error recovery algorithm, or different algorithms based on the amounts of ingredients remaining in the canister. The paddle may be rocked until the target weight is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: DOORDASH, INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Chandra Sekar, Kathirgugan Kathirasen, Brian Richardson, Sanath Bhat, Levi Lalla
  • Publication number: 20240211250
    Abstract: Various embodiments can reduce variance in a target metric (e.g., experiment outcome). Embodiments can use historical pre-experiment outcomes to predict a metric (forecasts) that is expected for a future measurement time. The forecasts can then be used as a covariate to reduce the variance of the target metric. When predicting forecasts, various embodiments can use an automation pipeline that can generate better and quicker forecasts. When there are multiple covariates that may be considered to reduce variance in the target metric, various embodiments can use a closed from solution for determining optimal coefficient of each covariate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Qiyun Pan, Ryan Scott Schork, Yixin Tang, Caixia Huang, Swaroop Chitlur Haridas
  • Publication number: 20240184436
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a server computer, a plurality of images associated with one or more service providers. The server computer then receives an inquiry request, and determines an image of the plurality of images. The image is selected in response to a composite score based on a scoring algorithm scoring each image in the plurality of images. The scoring algorithm comprises a conversion component and an uncertainty component. The server computer provides an inquiry response comprising the image to the end user device operated by the end user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Chen Kuo, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11980323
    Abstract: A method for operating an automated food making apparatus having a motor, actuator arm, and an apparatus. The apparatus may be a paddle with flexible fins. The method rotates the paddle with a pin-shaft mechanism to dispense an ingredient placed in a canister, controls the motor automatically based on weight sensor readings, and locates a position of the actuator arm with position sensors. The same motor dispenses ingredients from a plurality of canisters. The method may have a plurality of paddle rotation and weight measurement steps until a target weight is reached. The plurality of paddle rotation steps may be unidirectional or bidirectional paddle rotation. The paddle may be rotated according to one or more paddle rotation algorithms, an error recovery algorithm, or different algorithms based on the amounts of ingredients remaining in the canister. The paddle may be rocked until the target weight is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DOORDASH, INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Chandra Sekar, Kathirgugan Kathirasen, Brian Richardson, Sanath Bhat, Levi Lalla
  • Patent number: 11966706
    Abstract: A dialogue complexity assessment method, system, and computer program product including calculating a complexity utilizing domain-dependent terms and domain-independent terms of a dialogue, where the dialogue includes dialogue data from contact centers of service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Biplav Srivastava, Qingzi Vera Liao, Pavan Kapanipathi Bangalore
  • Publication number: 20240127388
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a signaling location beacon are provided. Specifically, a collection location for collecting, by an agent, an item is determined. Also, a physical beacon associated with the pickup location can be identified. Further, an interaction between the physical beacon and the agent can be detected. For example, the interaction can occur based on the physical beacon and the agent being in physical proximity to each other during a process of the agent collecting the item at the collection location. As follows, in response to the interaction, transmission of a sensory signal to the agent can be facilitated to provide perceivable direction information associated with the physical location to the agent. The sensory signal can be specific to the agent based on the interaction between the physical beacon and the agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: DoorDash Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Polyakov, Albert Poon, Rajat Shroff
  • Patent number: 11961115
    Abstract: In some examples, a computing device may receive data from a plurality of groups of data sources. The computing device may access a plurality of data synthetization machine learning models configured for generating synthetic data. Respective ones of the data synthetization machine learning models may correspond to respective ones of the groups of data sources. The computing device generates first synthetic data by inputting, to a first data synthetization machine learning model, first data received from a first data source group, and generates second synthetic data by inputting, to a second data synthetization machine learning model, second data received from a second data source group. The computing device determines an allocation of resources based at least in part on comparing the first data and the first synthetic data with the second data and the second synthetic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DOORDASH, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Bryant Kaspar, Alok Gupta, Aman Dhesi
  • Publication number: 20240095776
    Abstract: A method includes storing one or more interest indicators for providing communications for resources associated with a plurality of second service providers, and then receiving, a fulfillment request from an application in an end user device. The fulfillment request being for resources to be fulfilled by a first service provider. The method also includes determining one or more interest indicators from the retrieved interest indicators associated with the second service providers and providing one or more communications associated with at least one of the determined one or more interest indicators of one or more second service providers to the application along with a display of a service provider identifier of the first service provider or the resources to be fulfilled by the first service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Zhang, Ujjwal Gulecha
  • Patent number: 11934991
    Abstract: In some examples, a computing device sends, to an application on a user device, item information to cause the application to present a user interface including information about items available from a merchant. In response to receiving a user input via the user interface to select an item from the merchant, the computing device determines that a likelihood that the item will be unavailable exceeds a threshold. The computing device sends a communication that causes the application to present a plurality of selectable options to indicate actions to perform when the item is unavailable. The computing device receives a request to place the order for the item, and an indication of the action to perform. In response to receiving a communication from the merchant device indicating that the item is unavailable, the computing device sends an instruction to the merchant device indicating the action to perform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DOORDASH, INC.
    Inventors: Xingjie Liu, Jevin Bhorania, Ajit Kalidindi Varma, Jeffrey F. Iacono
  • Patent number: 11928861
    Abstract: In some examples, a computer system may receive an image and associated location information corresponding to a location at which the image was captured. The system may provide the image as input to a machine-learning model previously trained to determine whether the received image includes a threshold amount of information to indicate that received location information indicates a location corresponding to the received image. Based at least in part on an output of the machine-learning model indicating that the received image meets the threshold, the system may store the associated location information as mapping information associated with the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DOORDASH, INC.
    Inventors: Sushil Vellanki, Kuleen Nimkar, Li Xiang Tian
  • Patent number: 11922366
    Abstract: Provided are systems and processes for optimizing assignments of deliveries for perishable goods. In one aspect, a method is provided for pairing a set of created orders with a set of available couriers. The set of created orders may include orders confirmed by the merchant and the set of available couriers include couriers that are online with an active status. Feasible pairings are generated between each courier and each created order. Infeasible pairings are eliminated based on factors such as transportation mode. Possible routes for each pairing are generated and scored based on weighted factors. The scores are optimized to achieve a set of routes with a maximum score. The routes are then offered to the corresponding courier if the courier will arrive at or after the created order is completed by the merchant. A neural network may be implemented to recognize the optimal score for a given duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohan Balraj Chopra, Richard Hwang, Jeff Ning Han
  • Patent number: 11918150
    Abstract: An automated food making apparatus having a carousel and at least one canister. The at least one canister may include a disposable bag having ingredients therein, with the disposable bag being disposed at an upper portion of the canister. The at least one canister may further include a reusable lower portion configured to be removably attached to the disposable bag. The reusable lower portion may further include a paddle to aid in dispensing ingredients from the disposable bag. The automated food making apparatus may further include a dispensing apparatus that is configured to dispense ingredients from the disposable bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DOORDASH, INC.
    Inventors: Sanath Bhat, Tai Yen Chung, Kathirgugan Kathirasen, Deepak Chandra Sekar, Brian Richardson
  • Patent number: 11918149
    Abstract: A method for operating an automated food making apparatus having a motor, actuator arm, and an apparatus. The apparatus may be a paddle with flexible fins. The method rotates the paddle with a pin-shaft mechanism to dispense an ingredient placed in a canister, controls the motor automatically based on weight sensor readings, and locates a position of the actuator arm with position sensors. The same motor dispenses ingredients from a plurality of canisters. The method may have a plurality of paddle rotation and weight measurement steps until a target weight is reached. The plurality of paddle rotation steps may be unidirectional or bidirectional paddle rotation. The paddle may be rotated according to one or more paddle rotation algorithms, an error recovery algorithm, or different algorithms based on the amounts of ingredients remaining in the canister. The paddle may be rocked until the target weight is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Chandra Sekar, Kathirgugan Kathirasen, Brian Richardson, Sanath Bhat, Levi Lalla
  • Publication number: 20240070601
    Abstract: A method includes a computer receiving a fulfillment request associated with one or more items. Responsive to receiving the fulfillment request, the computer determines estimated weight data based on the one or more items in the fulfillment request. The computer obtains actual weight data associated with the fulfillment request for one or more items. The computer verifies that the actual weight data corresponds to the estimated weight data. The computer performs additional processing based on verifying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Harrison Shih, Hamid Sani, Levi Lalla, Agota Sipos, Milind Shah, Derek Bruce Young, Thomas Belluscio
  • Patent number: 11915170
    Abstract: In some examples, a processor may access past order information for a plurality of merchants to determine, for an upcoming time period, a number of orders predicted to be received by the merchants. The processor may determine geographic locations of delivery agent devices, each associated with a respective delivery agent. The processor may compare, for the upcoming time period, a number of active delivery agents with the number of orders predicted to be received. Based at least on determining a predicted shortage of active delivery agents for the upcoming time period, the processor selects a first delivery agent of the plurality of delivery agents to pick up a first order from a first pickup location of a first merchant and a second order from a second pickup location of a second merchant, and sends a message to a first delivery agent device associated with the first delivery agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DOORDASH, INC.
    Inventors: Jesse Lee Reiss, Ajit Kalidindi Varma, Jeffrey Frank Iacono, Richard David Din
  • Patent number: 11908026
    Abstract: In some examples, a computing device may receive, from a plurality of merchant devices associated with a plurality of merchants, respectively, electronic communications indicating pickup locations associated with the respective merchants. The computing device may access map information to determine a group of the respective pickup locations within a threshold distance of each other, the group of respective pickup locations corresponding to a group of the merchants. The computing device may send, to a buyer device, based at least on the pickup locations determined to be within the threshold distance of each other, merchant information that causes, at least in part, an application on the buyer device to present a user interface including information about the group of merchants, the information about the group of merchants including an indication that items ordered from the merchants in the group of merchants are available for combined delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DOORDASH, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin R. Bernstein, Jeffrey Frank Iacono, Jesse Lee Reiss