US 11,720,936 B2
Price estimation system
Robert L. Miller, Atlanta, GA (US); John S. Schulte, Atlanta, GA (US); and Mika Illouz, Atlanta, GA (US)
Assigned to Home Depot Product Authority, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by Home Depot Product Authority, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Oct. 22, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/660,316.
Application 16/660,316 is a division of application No. 13/837,342, filed on Mar. 15, 2013, granted, now 10,453,103, issued on Oct. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0051143 A1, Feb. 13, 2020
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0611 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, at a server, service requests from consumer computing devices;
obtaining, at the server, bids from service professional computing devices based on the service requests obtained from the consumer computing devices;
generating, at the server, a training set based on the bids and the service requests, wherein the generating of the training set comprises:
establishing an empty training set data structure;
retrieving, from a database, a plurality of service requests R and bid data B(R) comprising bids b associated with the service requests; and
for each service request R in the plurality of service requests:
for each bid b in the bid data B(R) associated with the service request R:
adding to the training set data structure an entry comprising the service request R and the bid b;
generating, by the server, a model for generating price estimates based on the training set;
sending, by the server, the model to be stored as part of an application on a consumer computing device; and
employing the model, by the consumer computing device, to generate a new price estimate based on an additional service request provided through the consumer computing device.