eBay Patent Applications

Emoji Understanding in Online Experiences

Granted: May 23, 2024
Application Number: 20240169151
Understanding emojis in the context of online experiences is described. In at least some embodiments, text input is received and a vector representation of the text input is computed. Based on the vector representation, one or more emojis that correspond to the vector representation of the text input are ascertained and a response is formulated that includes at least one of the one or more emojis. In other embodiments, input from a client machine is received. The input includes at least…

Virtual Facility Platform

Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240135433
In various example embodiments, a system and method for dynamically generating virtual marketplace platforms are presented. The system receives a set of facility data, a set of selections for a set of user interaction objects, and a set of object placement selections. The set of user interaction objects includes a first subset and a second subset. The system generates a virtual facility comprising the facility data and the set of user interaction objects distributed based on the object…

Systems And Methods To Utilize An Electronic Garage Shelf

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240127195
An electronic garage shelf is described. The system includes an electronic garage shelf which may be a metaphor for a shelf in a garage that is used to store parts for a vehicle. Merely for example, the electronic garage shelf may store a token part that signifies a part or smart component such as an oil filter, carburetor, spark plug, on a garage shelf in the user's garage. Further, the metaphor for a shelf in the garage may be expanded to include a virtual part that represents a part…

Rack Mountable Bracket

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240114644
A rack mountable bracket is described. The bracket is mountable to a rack configured for mounting equipment. The rack is also configured according to a rack standard (e.g., EIA-310) that specifies how rails of the rack are disposed, one rail to another, and how a strip of holes disposed along a length of each rail is spaced, one hole to another. In one or more implementations, the bracket includes a pair of mounting edges for mounting the bracket to a mounting pair of the rails using…

Dynamic Link Preview Generation

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104157
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…

System, Method, and Computer-Readable Medium for Recommendations Based on Wearable Sensors

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240095807
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…

Aspect Pre-selection using Machine Learning

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240095490
Aspect pre-selection techniques using machine learning are described. In one example, an artificial assistant system is configured to implement a chat bot. A user then engages in a first natural-language conversation. As part of this first natural-language conversation, a communication is generated by the chat bot to prompt the user to specify an aspect of a category that is a subject of a first natural-language conversation and user data is received in response. Data that describes this…

Parallel Data Stream Processing System

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240095253
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…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING FEED IN A NETWORK-BASED MARKETPLACE

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240086998
Feeds in a network-based marketplace are described. The system receives a request, over a network, from a user that is associated with feed selection information, and identifies source feeds based on the feed selection information. The source feeds respectively include a first plurality of content elements. The system generates a presentation feed by retrieving a second plurality of content elements from the source feeds. The generating is performed continuously and in real-time. The…

Auto Posting System

Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240070737
The disclosed technologies include a robotic selling assistant that receives an item from a seller, automatically generates a posting describing the item for sale, stores the item until it is sold, and delivers or sends the item out for delivery. The item is placed in a compartment that uses one or more sensors to identify the item, retrieve supplemental information about the item, and take pictures of the item for inclusion in the posting. A seller-supplied description of the item may…

Corrective Database Connection Management

Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240070013
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…

Dynamic Generation of User Interface Elements

Granted: February 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240062276
In various example embodiments, a system and method for dynamically generating user interface elements and associated values are presented. An item listing and profile data are accessed. A set of user interface elements are dynamically generated based on the item listing and the profile data, with each user interface element configured to perform an action on the item listing. A set of values are dynamically determined, with each value being associated with a user interface element of…

Method And System For Identifying, Managing, And Monitoring Data Dependencies

Granted: February 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240061888
Software is increasingly being developed as a collection of loosely coupled applications. Loosely coupled applications exchange data by publishing data to and retrieving data from a data store, such as a database, a file located on a storage cluster, etc. Data produced by one application and consumed by another is referred to as a data dependency. In some embodiments, an application's data dependencies are identified by analyzing cached query plans associated with the application. Query…

ANALYZING AND LINKING A SET OF IMAGES BY IDENTIFYING OBJECTS IN EACH IMAGE TO DETERMINE A PRIMARY IMAGE AND A SECONDARY IMAGE

Granted: February 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240061563
A set of images is accessed from a server. The set is analyzed to identify objects in each image using object recognition algorithms. A primary image that includes more of the identified objects than any of the other images of the set is determined. For each of the identified objects in the primary image, a secondary image that includes the identified object and has a higher magnification than the primary image is determined. Links are inserted into the primary image at locations…

Machine Learning-Based Interactive Visual Monitoring Tool for High Dimensional Data Sets Across Multiple KPIs

Granted: February 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240061562
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.…

Blockchain-Based Authentication And Authorization

Granted: February 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240054437
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…

IMAGE AND VIDEO INSTANCE ASSOCIATION FOR AN E-COMMERCE APPLICATIONS

Granted: February 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240054185
A process for linking related images and videos is disclosed. The process can include receiving listing information including the images and the video, processing the images using an image processor to determine one or more image descriptors, processing the video using a video processor to determine video descriptors, comparing the image descriptors to the video descriptors, calculating a similarity value for each of the image descriptors in relation to each of the video descriptors, and…

Systems and Methods to Provide Visual Browsing

Granted: February 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240054171
Systems and methods for multi-directional visual browsing on an electronic device are described. In example embodiments, a primary result and a peripheral result are determined. A display layout based on attributes associated with the primary result and the peripheral result is generated. The display layout is then formatted into instructions, which will cause a device to render the display layout. The instructions are transmitted to the client device.

Physical Object Boundary Detection Techniques and Systems

Granted: February 8, 2024
Application Number: 20240046481
Physical object boundary detection techniques and systems are described. In one example, an augmented reality module generates three dimensional point cloud data. This data describes depths at respective points within a physical environment that includes the physical object. A physical object boundary detection module is then employed to filter the point cloud data by removing points that correspond to a ground plane. The module then performs a nearest neighbor search to locate a subset…

Physical Object Boundary Detection Techniques and Systems

Granted: February 8, 2024
Application Number: 20240046481
Physical object boundary detection techniques and systems are described. In one example, an augmented reality module generates three dimensional point cloud data. This data describes depths at respective points within a physical environment that includes the physical object. A physical object boundary detection module is then employed to filter the point cloud data by removing points that correspond to a ground plane. The module then performs a nearest neighbor search to locate a subset…