Patents by Inventor Benjamin Yolken

Benjamin Yolken has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10621548
    Abstract: This disclosure includes systems for regression-tree-modified feature vector machine learning models for utilization prediction in time-expiring inventory. An online computing system receives a feature vector for a listing and inputs the feature vector and modified feature vectors into a demand function to generate demand estimates. The system inputs the demand estimates into a likelihood model to generate a set of request likelihoods, each request likelihood representing a likelihood that the time-expiring inventory will receive a transaction request at each of a set of test price and test times to expiration. The system further trains a regression tree model based on a set of training data comprising each of the request likelihoods from the set and the test price and test time period to expiration used to generate the demand estimate that was used to generate the request likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.
    Inventors: Spencer de Mars, Yangli Hector Yee, Peng Ye, Fenglin Liao, Li Zhang, Kim Pham, Julian Qian, Benjamin Yolken
  • Publication number: 20200090116
    Abstract: This disclosure includes systems for regression-tree-modified feature vector machine learning models for utilization prediction in time-expiring inventory. An online computing system receives a feature vector for a listing and inputs the feature vector and modified feature vectors into a demand function to generate demand estimates. The system inputs the demand estimates into a likelihood model to generate a set of request likelihoods, each request likelihood representing a likelihood that the time-expiring inventory will receive a transaction request at each of a set of test price and test times to expiration. The system further trains a regression tree model based on a set of training data comprising each of the request likelihoods from the set and the test price and test time period to expiration used to generate the demand estimate that was used to generate the request likelihood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Spencer de Mars, Yangli Hector Yee, Peng Ye, Fenglin Liao, Li Zhang, Kim Pham, Julian Qian, Benjamin Yolken
  • Patent number: 10528909
    Abstract: This disclosure includes systems for regression-tree-modified feature vector machine learning models for utilization prediction in time-expiring inventory. An online computing system receives a feature vector for a listing and inputs the feature vector and modified feature vectors into a demand function to generate demand estimates. The system inputs the demand estimates into a likelihood model to generate a set of request likelihoods, each request likelihood representing a likelihood that the time-expiring inventory will receive a transaction request at each of a set of test price and test times to expiration. The system further trains a regression tree model based on a set of training data comprising each of the request likelihoods from the set and the test price and test time period to expiration used to generate the demand estimate that was used to generate the request likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.
    Inventors: Spencer de Mars, Yangli Hector Yee, Peng Ye, Fenglin Liao, Li Zhang, Kim Pham, Julian Qian, Benjamin Yolken
  • Publication number: 20170308846
    Abstract: This disclosure includes systems for regression-tree-modified feature vector machine learning models for utilization prediction in time-expiring inventory. An online computing system receives a feature vector for a listing and inputs the feature vector and modified feature vectors into a demand function to generate demand estimates. The system inputs the demand estimates into a likelihood model to generate a set of request likelihoods, each request likelihood representing a likelihood that the time-expiring inventory will receive a transaction request at each of a set of test price and test times to expiration. The system further trains a regression tree model based on a set of training data comprising each of the request likelihoods from the set and the test price and test time period to expiration used to generate the demand estimate that was used to generate the request likelihood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Spencer de Mars, Yangli Hector Yee, Peng Ye, Fenglin Liao, Li Zhang, Kim Pham, Julian Qian, Benjamin Yolken