Patents by Inventor Christopher Hollindale

Christopher Hollindale 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).

  • Publication number: 20220044307
    Abstract: Techniques for optimizing a food service configured to receive food orders from multiple customers, and consolidate orders based on respective days, times, and locations associated therewith. The food orders may include deliveries, customer pick-ups, and dine-in options for eating at a restaurant. The optimized food service may be configured to assign a restaurant to the consolidated orders and send a preparation instruction to the restaurant to prepare the consolidated orders for a designated pick-up or dining time. The optimized food service may additionally instruct an order supervisor to travel to the restaurant to assist in preparation of the consolidated orders. The order supervisor may additionally serve a food order, such as for a dine-in option or full service, catered delivery. For delivery orders, the optimized food service may assign a courier and, in some examples, a delivery assistant, to deliver the orders to respective customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Wensi Xu, Michael Kane, Alexei Savtchenko, Christopher Hollindale
  • Patent number: 11188970
    Abstract: Techniques for optimizing a food service configured to receive food orders from multiple customers, and consolidate orders based on respective days, times, and locations associated therewith. The food orders may include deliveries, customer pick-ups, and dine-in options for eating at a restaurant. The optimized food service may be configured to assign a restaurant to the consolidated orders and send a preparation instruction to the restaurant to prepare the consolidated orders for a designated pick-up or dining time. The optimized food service may additionally instruct an order supervisor to travel to the restaurant to assist in preparation of the consolidated orders. The order supervisor may additionally serve a food order, such as for a dine-in option or full service, catered delivery. For delivery orders, the optimized food service may assign a courier and, in some examples, a delivery assistant, to deliver the orders to respective customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Wensi Xu, Michael Kane, Alexei Savtchenko, Christopher Hollindale
  • Publication number: 20210019694
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods of order fulfillment using a fulfillment engine, which optimizes the allocation of client or user orders to third party merchants for fulfillment through the use of linear programming or machine learning. This optimization occurs by loading a series of relevant merchant attributes and client attributes into an optimizer with the order and analyzing the attributes to determine an optimal allocation of client orders to third party merchants. These orders are issued to the merchants and where necessary the system arranges delivery of the orders to the client. The system may also automatically update future orders in response to client feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Aman Dhesi, Christopher Hollindale