Mailer Assembly With Pockets
Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number:
20250121985
An assembly for a mailer is described. The assembly supports the mailing of articles such as trading cards and includes an insert defining a set of pockets shaped to receive the articles. The pockets are formed between attachment members of the insert and are arranged adjacent to each other along a length of the insert. Each pocket includes an open end arranged toward an upper end of the insert formed by a terminating edge of the insert. Further, each pocket includes a closed end…
METHOD, MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENT ONLINE PERSONAL ASSISTANT WITH IMAGE TEXT LOCALIZATION
Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number:
20250117839
Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a candidate product in an electronic marketplace based on a visual comparison between candidate product image visual text content and input query image visual text content. Unlike conventional optical character recognition (OCR) based systems, embodiments automatically localize and isolate portions of a candidate product image and an input query image that each contain visual text content, and calculate a visual similarity…
Systems, Methods, and Devices for Authentication of a Product
Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number:
20250117812
A system, a method, and a device for authentication of a product includes one or more databases configured to store data of one or more products, and a user device communicatively coupled to the databases via a network. The user device includes at least one memory configured to store computer executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to receive, from an authenticator, product search data of the product, and to search…
Dynamic Shard Allocation in a Near Real-Time Search Platform
Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number:
20250117384
Dynamic shard allocation in a near real-time search platform is described. A computing system may include a cluster comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of the plurality of nodes comprising a plurality of shards storing searchable data. A query load distribution of the cluster is assessed in real-time. A first shard of a first node and a second shard of a second node are identified based on the query load distribution. The first shard of the first node is commanded to exchange with…
PERSONALIZED, REAL-TIME AUDIO PROCESSING
Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250087228
An apparatus and method for real-time audio processing employs a gaze detection sensor to detect a direction of a user's gaze and output a gaze signal corresponding to the detected direction of the user's gaze. A digital signal processing unit responds to a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of sounds received at the apparatus, and the determined direction of gaze to identify a signal of interest from the plurality of signals using the gaze signal. The signal of interest…
Blockchain-Based Authentication And Authorization
Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250086571
The disclosed technologies include receiving a request from a second computing device to verify ownership of a blockchain address. A challenge content is generated and sent to the requestor. A signature is received comprising a hash of the challenge content generated using a private key. A public key corresponding to the private key is obtained, and the signature is validated using the public key. In response to validating the signature, a characteristic is associated with a user…
Automated Determination of Web Page Rendering Performance
Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250086089
Automated determination of web page rendering performance techniques and systems are described. In one example, a web page including multiple user-interactive elements that can be selected or navigated via user input is received. A frame rendering system is employed to automatically identify the user-interactive elements and generate scripts to simulate user input at the user-interactive elements. The generated scripts are then used to simulate user input at the user-interactive…
PARALLEL DATA STREAM PROCESSING SYSTEM
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250077533
A method and a system process a stream of data in parallel across a plurality of nodes. The log processing system has a log module, a query language module, and a query processing module. The log module receives and organizes the stream of data into a sequential and nested data structure. The query language operator module defines operators that operate on the sequential and nested data structure. The query processing module processes in parallel across a plurality of nodes a query based…
Area Selection-Based Document Object Model Element Inspector
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250068310
An area selection-based document object model element inspector is described. A dragging input that defines a selection area of a digital content document having a plurality of elements is received via an area selection-based inspector tool. A set of elements of the plurality of elements that is positioned within the selection area is selected. Details of the selected set of elements are broadcast for display.
Wildcard-Free Certificates for Network Address Domains
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250055839
Generating an access point certificate based on a graph that defines relationships between an access point and at least one domain is described. Relationship data describing how data is to be routed between an access point and domains is received by a certificate management system. The certificate management system generates a graph representing an access point and associated domains as nodes, with edges connecting various nodes to model relationships between the access point and the…
Fit Simulation Garment
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054262
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for simulating the fit of a particular garment on a user using a fit simulation garment. The fit simulation garment is wearable by a user and comprises a plurality of actuators configured to simulate tightness of regions of the particular garment. The method includes receiving a garment fit model defining the fit of the particular garment on the user. The method further…
Outfit Curation by Generative Artificial Intelligence
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054044
Outfit curation by generative artificial intelligence is described. A prompt is generated, based on a seed clothing item, for input to generative artificial intelligence to create an outfit that includes the seed clothing item. The prompt is provided to the generative artificial intelligence to cause the generative artificial intelligence to initiate a search of an online marketplace to locate complementary clothing items for the outfit that are available on the online marketplace.…
Virtual Account Use
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250053989
Virtual account use in an online marketplace is described. Listings published to a multitude of client devices by the online marketplace include a first listing for a first item and a second listing for a second item. The first item is listed by a first user account and the second item is listed by a second user account. In connection with a third user account purchasing the first item, the online marketplace provides a first monetary compensation to the first user account from the third…
Prospective Object Search Techniques Based on Removed Objects
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250045811
Search techniques are described that support locating and displaying prospective objects in digital images based on a removed object. A digital image, for instance, is received by a computing device as an input depicting a physical environment with various objects and displayed in a user interface. An object depicted by the digital image is removed. An aspect of the removed object is identified. A search system leverages the aspect to locate a prospective object. The prospective object…
Dynamic Link Preview Generation
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250045341
Dynamic link preview generation techniques are described that overcome the challenges of conventional techniques by supporting link preview generation by a content provider system that proves the digital content via a respective network address. In one example, a content provider system, based on a request received from a service provider system, identifies a communication platform of the service provider system that is to be used to communicate the shared link. Upon identifying the…
Data Quality Check Using a Structured Query Language Hint
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250045257
A data quality check using a structured query language hint is described. A query optimizer of a database management system may receive a data quality check instruction as part of a database query statement for a database query. The query optimizer may modify a query execution plan for the database query based on the data quality check instruction so that completion of the database query is dependent on a result of a data quality check defined by the data quality check instruction. The…
Corrective Database Connection Management
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250045151
Systems and methods for are provided for predicting impending failure of a database and preemptively initiating mitigating failover actions, for example by shedding connections or redirecting connection requests to an alternate database that can fulfill resources being requested. In an example embodiment, to detect a slow or unstable database, connection wait times are monitored over a rolling window of time intervals, a quantity of intervals in which at least one excessive wait time…
Replicated Time Wheel Delay Event Scheduling
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250045130
A delay event system is described that maintains a main copy of a time wheel, which includes a plurality of slots that each correspond to a different time. The main copy of the time wheel is maintained at a first node, and a plurality of replica copies of the time wheel are maintained at different nodes. Events scheduled for future execution are placed into an appropriate time wheel slot and propagated to the replica copies. Each time wheel one of the slots in the main copy of the time…
INTELLIGENT AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICES
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038728
An audio output device may include one or more audio sensors configured to detect ambient sound and noises around the audio output device. The audio output device may include a controller configured to analyze the detected sound and noises and may adjust audio settings of the audio output device accordingly. In an embodiment, the controller may analyze and recognize that the detected noise is another person's attempt to get the user's attention or to talk to the user, such as audio sound…
IMAGE EVALUATION
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250014055
A machine may be configured to perform image evaluation of images depicting items for sale and to provide recommendations for improving the images depicting the items to increase the sales of the items depicted in the images. For example, the machine accesses a result of a user behavior analysis. The machine receives an image of an item from a user device. The machine per forms an image evaluation of the received image based on an analysis of the received image and the result of the user…
