US 12,093,237 B2
Systems and methods for forecasting warm start items
Lior Ben-Moshe, Kfar Saba (IL); and Igal Nir, Lehavim (IL)
Assigned to Anaplan, Inc., San Francisco, TX (US)
Filed by Anaplan, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/146,772.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/324,874, filed on Mar. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0315711 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06N 5/02 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 16/23 (2019.01) [G06N 5/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for generating forecasts associated with items, the method comprising:
obtaining a warm start forecasting request from a user;
obtaining an item associated with the warm start forecasting request;
obtaining item data associated with the item;
making a determination that the item is a warm start item;
in response to the determination:
performing similarity calculations between the warm start item and additional items included in an item repository;
identifying a portion of the additional items that are similar to the warm start item based on the similarity calculations;
aggregating forecasts associated with the portion of the additional items to generate a warm start forecast; and
providing the warm start forecast to the user.