Location-Based Display of Pixel History
Granted: August 19, 2021
Application Number:
20210256939
A screen is presented on a display of a user device, which includes an element occupying less than an entirety of the screen. A second screen is then presented on the display, which includes a second element occupying less than an entirety of the second screen. The user device receives an input that requests that a previously presented element be presented within the second screen next to enable comparison of the previously presented element with the second element. The user device…
Compressed Cache Using Dynamically Stacked Roaring Bitmaps
Granted: August 12, 2021
Application Number:
20210248074
A method for compressing data in a local cache of a web server is described. A local cache compression engine accesses values in the local cache and determines a cardinality of the values of the local cache. The local cache compression engine determines a compression rate of a compression algorithm based on the cardinality of the values of the local cache. The compression algorithm is applied to the cache based on the compression rate to generate a compressed local cache.
Machine Learning-Based Interactive Visual Monitoring Tool for High Dimensional Data Sets Across Multiple KPIs
Granted: July 29, 2021
Application Number:
20210232291
Described are computing systems and methods configured to detect a small, but meaningful, anomaly within one or more metrics associated with a platform. The system displays visuals of the metrics so that a user monitoring the platform can effectively notice a problem associated with the anomaly and take appropriate action to remediate the problem. An operational visual includes a radar-based visual with a heatmap arranging metrics, and a node representing a state of the metrics.…
Intelligent online personal assistant with image text localization
Granted: July 22, 2021
Application Number:
20210224877
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…
INTELLIGENT ONLINE PERSONAL ASSISTANT WITH MULTI-TURN DIALOG BASED ON VISUAL SEARCH
Granted: July 22, 2021
Application Number:
20210224876
Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a relevant candidate product in an electronic marketplace. Embodiments perform a visual similarity comparison between candidate product image visual content and input query image visual content, process formal and informal natural language user inputs, and coordinate aggregated past user interactions with the marketplace stored in a knowledge graph. Visually similar items and their corresponding product categories, aspects,…
TAILORED DISPLAY OF PAYMENT OPTIONS
Granted: July 22, 2021
Application Number:
20210224771
A system according to an embodiment comprises one or more processors; and one or more memories in communication with the one or more processors and adapted to store a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by the one or more processors are adapted to cause the system to: offer, by a merchant at a Point of Sale (POS), at least one payment option in connection with a transaction for at least one item, wherein the payment option(s) is presented in a display tailored…
Distributed Storage of Metadata For Large Binary Data
Granted: July 22, 2021
Application Number:
20210224241
In an example embodiment, a distributed storage system includes a service tier including a service node to receive a request for a logical object comprising binary data and metadata describing the binary data, and a storage tier including a plurality of storage nodes, wherein one or more of the storage nodes is to store the metadata describing the binary data. The distributed storage system also includes a coordination tier to store mapping information identifying the one or more of the…
THREE DIMENSIONAL PROXIMITY RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM
Granted: July 15, 2021
Application Number:
20210217055
In various example embodiments, systems and methods to provide proximity recommendations are provided. In example embodiments, data representing prioritized recommendations for a user is received. The data representing the prioritized recommendations is used to generated a composite visual representation by embedding select prioritized recommendations into a visual representation. The composite visual representation presents a higher prioritized recommendation in a more spatially…
Rate Limiter
Granted: July 8, 2021
Application Number:
20210211383
Systems and methods of rate limiting are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a rate limiter service receives a request from an online application to access an online resource, and the rate limiter service transmits an indication of the request to a back end system, and an enforcement decision corresponding to the online resource is received from the back end system, with the enforcement decision comprising an instruction to either permit or deny access to the online resource,…
Computer Vision, User Segment, and Missing Item Determination
Granted: July 1, 2021
Application Number:
20210201378
Techniques and systems are described that leverage computer vision as part of search to expand functionality of a computing device available to a user and increase operational computational efficiency as well as efficiency in user interaction. In a first example, user interaction with items of digital content is monitored. Computer vision techniques are used to identify digital images in the digital content, objects within the digital images, and characteristics of those objects. This…
Preemptive Connection Pool Adjustments
Granted: July 1, 2021
Application Number:
20210200778
Systems and methods for preemptive adjustments of connections in a server connection pool are provided. In example embodiments, a number of quality of service engines analyze server connection pool metrics data to generate instructions to increase or decrease the number of connections in a connection pool, preemptively, before shortages or surpluses of connections occur. Corrective engines can analyze performance of the quality of service engines and can, when necessary, instruct the…
Asynchronous Predictive Caching Of Content Listed In Search Results
Granted: July 1, 2021
Application Number:
20210200767
Technologies described reduce the amount of time between requesting content and receiving the requested content. In some embodiments, a client provides a search query. A search result page is generated and, prior to returning the search result page to the client, some or all of the search results are asynchronously pre-fetched and cached. The search query can include custom parameters that are also included in the pre-fetch requests. Web addresses in the search results page can be…
Connection Service Discovery And Load Rebalancing
Granted: June 24, 2021
Application Number:
20210194953
In a networked data system, a discovery protocol enables clients to establish connections to one a plurality of database servers to utilize a distributed connection service. The service manages connections between application servers, i.e. clients, and databases. An initial request from the client is received by a load balancer. The load balancer responds to the client by identifying an assigned connection to one of the database servers based on load considerations. The client sends a…
Augmented Reality Digital Content Search and Sizing Techniques
Granted: June 24, 2021
Application Number:
20210192765
Techniques are described herein that overcome the limitations of conventional techniques by bridging a gap between user interaction with digital content using a computing device and a user's physical environment through use of augmented reality content. In one example, user interaction with augmented reality digital content as part of a live stream of digital images of a user's environment is used to specify a size of an area that is used to filter search results to find a “best…
Systems and Methods for Facilitating Electronic Commerce over a Network
Granted: June 24, 2021
Application Number:
20210192588
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods for facilitating electronic commerce over a network include communicating with a plurality of users via a plurality of user devices over the network, receiving a login request from a first user via a first user device over the network, accessing an account related to the user based on information passed with the login request, receiving a snaplist file related to a multiple image listing provided by the first…
System, Method, and Computer Readable Medium For Recommendations Based On Wearable Sensors
Granted: June 17, 2021
Application Number:
20210182937
Apparatus and method for providing contextual recommendations based on user state are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, sensor data corresponding to at least one sensor included in an item worn by a user is received. A user state is determined based on the received sensor data. In response to a state change being satisfied by at least the user state, a recommendation is determined based on the user state and a profile associated with the user. The recommendation may be presented on…
Techniques of Prefetching Operation Cost Based Digital Content and Digital Content With Emphasis
Granted: June 17, 2021
Application Number:
20210182904
Techniques for prefetching operation cost based digital content and digital content with emphasis that overcome the challenges of conventional systems are described. In one example, a computing device may receive digital content representations of digital content from a service provider system, which are displayed on a user interface of the computing device. Thereafter, the computing device may also receive digital content as prefetches having a changed display characteristic as…
Control of Search Results with Multipoint Pinch Gestures
Granted: June 3, 2021
Application Number:
20210165565
An indication of a touch on a touch-enabled screen of a device is received that indicates a selection of a date facet in a listing of items. The date facet denotes a temporal indicator, other facets denote non-temporal indicators. An indication of a pinch gesture is received. The date facet is scaled to produce a scaled-facet listing. The scaling includes modifying a degree of a characteristic of the date facet in an increasing amount including producing a scaled-out listing implemented…
IDENTIFICATION OF ITEMS DEPICTED IN IMAGES
Granted: June 3, 2021
Application Number:
20210166061
In an example embodiment, a method of identifying an item depicted in an image is provided. In this method, the image depicting the item is accessed; in addition, other images and their item identifiers are also accessed. A match of the image with one of the other images is identified. With a match, the image is then associated with an item identifier of the matched image.
User Interface Resource File Optimization
Granted: June 3, 2021
Application Number:
20210165643
Technologies described herein reduce the size of a software application. In some embodiments, the size of one or more resource files of an application are reduced. Resource files include key/value pairs that define elements of the application. In some embodiments, the application's source code is analyzed to determine if an entry in a resource file may be removed. For instance, initialization functions in the application's source code may be analyzed to determine if a value loaded from a…
