Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Promotion selection for online customers using Bayesian bandits
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Application No.: US14723360Application Date: 2015-05-27
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Publication No.: US10580035B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Courosh Mehanian , Timothy Wee , Karthik Kumara
- Applicant: Staples, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Framington
- Assignee: Staples, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Staples, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Framington
- Agency: Patent Law Works LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q30/02
- IPC: G06Q30/02

Abstract:
Technology for selecting promotion(s) to display in a page of an application for display to a user is described. An example method includes determining a promotion for a product; calculating for the promotion a posterior distribution of a user-action probability reflecting estimates for a user response to a display of the promotion for the product on a computing device of the user; determining the posterior distribution as collapsing beyond a certain threshold; responsive thereto, calculating an uncollapsed posterior distribution of the user-action probability reflecting modified estimates for the user response to the display of the promotion for the product on a computing device of the user; storing the uncollapsed posterior distribution of the user-action probability in a response database; and determining whether to select the promotion from the promotion database for display on a computing device of the user based on the modified estimates.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160350802A1 Promotion Selection for Online Customers Using Bayesian Bandits Public/Granted day:2016-12-01
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