DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTABLE SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL RATE - PRODUCT CONSUMPTION INPUT

摘要

A mechanism is described for determining an amount of item that remains in the possession of a consumer for an automatic item subscription system, as well as a subsequent replacement date for that item. The remaining item amount may be determined from a consumption rate that is calculated from a number of factors. In some embodiments, the consumption rate may be based on cluster data or data representing trends related to the underlying item. Consumers may be clustered based on item purchases and a common consumption rate for that consumer cluster may be applied to the consumer. As the consumption rate for an item changes, the replacement date may be dynamically updated to reflect the change in the consumption rate.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving an indication that a user is in possession of an item, the item being subscribed to in an automatic subscription system; determining a first consumer group to which the user belongs, the first consumer group being associated with a first consumption rate of the item; determining, based at least in part on the first consumption rate, a renewal interval of the item for the user, the renewal interval being an interval at which the item is to be provisioned to the user; determining, based at least in part on an attribute of the user, a second consumer group to which the user belongs, the second consumer group being associated with a second consumption rate for the item; updating, based at least in part on the second consumption rate, the renewal interval of the item for the user, the renewal interval being updated to reflect an interval at which the item is to be provisioned to the user according to the second consumption rate; causing provisioning of the item to the user at the updated renewal interval.