eBay Patent Applications

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…

Systems and Methods For Contextual Recommendations

Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number: 20250016241
A method and a system for making contextual recommendations to users on a network-based system. For example, activity associated with a user interacting with a network-based system is tracked. Based, at least in part, on the tracked user activity on the network-based system, a recommendation relationship type is selected. The recommendation relationship type can be either a substitute relationship type or a complement relationship type. A recommended object can be selected based at least…

Systems And Methods For Multi-Signal Fault Analysis

Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number: 20250014400
Systems and methods for multi-signal fault analysis are described. The system receives signal message information, over a network, from a collection device comprised of a plurality of mobile devices including a first mobile device and a second mobile device that are associated with a first user. The first signal message information includes a first maintenance message including characterization information that was received by the first mobile device from a component that includes a…

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…

Context-Driven Generation of Diverse Questions

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250005329
In accordance with techniques for context-driven generation of diverse questions, a machine learning model receives a first target question, a second target question, and a context. Based on the context and one or more words of the first target question, a first decoder of the machine learning model outputs a first representation of candidate words to follow the one or more words of the first target question. Based on the context and one or more words of the second target question, a…

Item Inventory Management System with Vacuum-Operated Sorter

Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240416389
An item sorting system is described. The item sorting system includes at least one bin that holds items to be sorted and a light source that illuminates the items stored in the at least one bin. In implementations, the at least one bin includes walls that direct light, received from the light source via a first surface, for emission via a second surface facing an interior of the at least one bin. The item sorting system further includes a recognition device that identifies the items for…

DIGITAL WARDROBE

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240412278
Techniques for generating a digital wardrobe are presented herein. A transceiver can be configured to receive a request having a garment identifier and a user identifier. Additionally, an access module can be configured to access a first garment model, access a body model of the user corresponding to the user identifier, and access a second garment model corresponding to the user identifier. Furthermore, a processor can be configured by a garment simulation module to position the body…

Different Action User-Interface Components In A Comparison View

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240412270
Different action user-interface components in a comparison view are described. Initially, a selection is received to display a comparison view via a user interface of a listing platform. Multiple listings of the listing platform are selected for inclusion in the comparison view. A comparison view system determines which action of a plurality of actions, used by the listing platform, to associate with each of the listings. A display device displays the multiple listings concurrently in a…

Decentralized Shipping Network Using Blockchains

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394645
Technologies are shown for shipping route selection involving receiving sender and recipient shipping information for an item to be shipped and obtaining shipping route options for the item based on the sender and recipient shipping information. The route options are provided for display and selection of an option. A routing data block is created for the item at an address on a blockchain that stores shipping information for each stage of the selected route. A shipping tag is encoded…

Cosigning Using Tokenized Reputation Scores

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394704
Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to control access to transactions through use of cosigning based on tokenized reputation scores. This is performed by leveraging a blockchain such that tokenized reputation scores are generated based on amounts of cryptographic reputation tokens associated with blockchain account addresses associated with applicant and co-signer service provider accounts. Transactional functionality is made available to an applicant service…

Inventory Item Prediction and Listing Recommendation

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394625
An inventory prediction system is described that outputs a predicted inventory item not included in a user's known inventory using a cross-category directional graph that represents item categories as nodes. The inventory prediction system implements a prediction model trained using machine learning to output the predicted inventory item using the graph and at least one item from the user's known inventory. The inventory prediction system is further configured to generate a listing…

Garnering Interest on Potential Listing in a Photo or Video

Granted: October 17, 2024
Application Number: 20240346539
Various implementations described herein are able to leverage the interaction from one or more potential buyers relative to a digital image to automatically create a sales listing for items that appear to be of interest to the buyers. This reduces or eliminates all together the manual effort previously required of sellers in researching and collecting data on each item they wish to sell. Because of their technical nature, the innovative solutions described herein are also readily…

Colored Three-Dimensional Digital Model Generation

Granted: October 10, 2024
Application Number: 20240338919
Colored three-dimensional digital model generation techniques and systems are described. In one example, scanning techniques are employed by a scanning system that scans a physical object while disposed within packaging to form a three-dimension digital model. A model coloring system is employed to color the three-dimensional digital model. A two-dimensional digital image is employed that captures the same or similar physical object. In one example, features of the model are matched to…

Near Real-Time Feature Simulation for Online/Offline Point-in-Time Data Parity

Granted: October 10, 2024
Application Number: 20240338557
Near real-time feature simulation for online/offline point-in-time data parity is described. A computing device may assign, to respective events from a series of events, a series of time stamps associated with a near real-time (NRT) variable. The computing device may simulate a delay latency associated with processing the respective events via an online processing environment based on the series of time stamps. The computing device may provide the series of events and the simulated delay…

Feature Engineering Logic Generation and Simulation

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240320117
A computing device may receive trigger data defining a trigger event and logic to add an enriched event associated with the trigger event. A computing device may detect occurrence of the trigger event in execution of one or more digital services by an executable service platform in an online operational environment of a service provider system based on the trigger data. A computing device may generate event data describing the execution of the trigger event and the enriched event…

Bad Change Detector for Operational Features of Digital Platforms

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240319990
A bad change detector for operational features of digital platforms is described. Metric data from a website is acquired by the bad change detector while implementing a first version of an operational feature of the website and while implementing a second version of the operational feature. A bad change to the website is detected by measuring an inequality among values of a frequency distribution defined by a time series of the metric data. The operational feature is reverted to the…

USE OF CAMERA METADATA FOR RECOMMENDATIONS

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240312207
In various example embodiments, a system and method for using camera metadata for making recommendations are presented. At least one image file having camera metadata is received. The camera metadata of the at least one image file is analyzed to determine improvements to image capture aspects associated with the at least one image file. Feedback related to the improvements to the image capture aspects associated with the at least one image file is generated. In some embodiments, the…

Camera Platform Incorporating Schedule and Stature

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240305751
Camera platform techniques are described. In an implementation, a plurality of digital images and data describing times, at which, the plurality of digital images are captured is received by a computing device. Objects of clothing are recognized from the digital images by the computing device using object recognition as part of machine learning. A user schedule is also received by the computing device that describes user appointments and times, at which, the appointments are scheduled. A…

DATA STORAGE SPACE RECOVERY USING COMPACTION REQUESTS

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240289016
Storage space is reclaimed by cleaning and compacting data objects where data objects are stored by immutable storage. A storage area of which space needs to be reclaimed is identified. Active and stale data objects stored in a storage area are identified, and only active data objects are transferred to a shadow storage area from the storage area when recovering storage space. I/O operations can be fulfilled from the storage area and the shadow storage area. Compaction requests and I/O…

Managing Database Offsets With Time Series

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240281444
Systems and methods of improving the functioning of a streaming platform system by managing database change stream offsets using a time series database are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer system retrieves an offset value from a plurality of offset values stored in a time series database, with the plurality of offset values being indexed in the time series database in time order, and the retrieved offset value being retrieved using a time parameter, and then the…