eBay Patent Applications

Digital Content Control Based on Nonfungible Tokens

Granted: April 6, 2023
Application Number: 20230108983
Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to provide digital content to users through use of nonfungible tokens (NFTs). This is performed by leveraging a blockchain such that digital content associated with an item is made available to encourage the user to interact with NFTs on the service provider platform (e.g., discounts, NFT listing functionality, automatic initiation of NFT transfers, and so forth) based on a user's possession of the NFT.

Transaction Access Control Using Tokenized Reputation Scores

Granted: April 6, 2023
Application Number: 20230108817
Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to control access to transactions through use of tokenized reputation scores. This is performed by leveraging a blockchain such that a tokenized reputation score is generated or calculated based on an amount of reputation tokens associated with a blockchain account address associated with a service provider account, and by making transactional functionality available to the service provider account based on a comparison of a…

API and Business Language Schema Design Framework for Message Exchanges

Granted: April 6, 2023
Application Number: 20230106120
In one example, a server system facilitates an exchange of messages with a remote client application. An Application Program Interface (API) receives a first request message and a second request message, wherein the first request message includes a first data payload defined by a common definition and including a first payload data, the first payload defined by a first schema definition. The second request message includes a second data payload defined by the common definition and a…

Systems, Methods, and Devices for Authentication of a Product

Granted: April 6, 2023
Application Number: 20230104498
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…

Security Deposits Using Tokenized Reputation Scores

Granted: April 6, 2023
Application Number: 20230103398
Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to control access to transactions through use of security deposits 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 service provider accounts. Access to transactional functionality is controlled for a service provider account by…

SIMILARITY BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN E-COMMERCE MARKETPLACE

Granted: March 30, 2023
Application Number: 20230101174
Systems and methods provide determining listings of items based on similarities at least among items and queries in an online shopping system. In particular, the systems and methods determine similarities among items, users, product, messages, reviews, and queries, based on a combination of a machine learning model and similarity index data. The machine learning model (e.g., a Transformer model and a neural network model) generates embedded vector representation of items, queries, and…

Autonomous Item Fabrication Utilizing a Trained Machine Learning Model

Granted: March 30, 2023
Application Number: 20230098794
An autonomous item generation system implements a trained machine learning model configured to output fabrication instructions for generating an item and metadata describing the item, automatically and independent of user input. Fabrication instructions output by the machine learning model are transmitted to a fabrication device for generating the item. The autonomous item generation system generates a listing for the item based on the metadata output by the machine learning model and…

COMPRESSED CACHE USING DYNAMICALLY STACKED ROARING BITMAPS

Granted: March 30, 2023
Application Number: 20230096331
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.

Physical Storage Vault for Physical Items of Digital Twin NFTs

Granted: March 23, 2023
Application Number: 20230088936
A physical storage vault for physical items of digital twin NFTs is described. A combined listing for a physical item and an NET of the physical item is generated, and the combined listing is output in a user interface at a client device. The user interface includes an option to store the physical item in a physical storage vault. A request is received from the client device to transfer ownership of the physical item and the NFT of the combined listing to a user account. The request…

Adding Additional Value to NFTs

Granted: March 23, 2023
Application Number: 20230092012
Adding additional value to NFTs is described. An association of a non-fungible token (NET) with a user account is verified based on an address of a digital wallet that corresponds to the user account and that is encoded into the NET stored on a blockchain. After verifying the association of the NET with the user account, a condition relative to the NET is detected. Responsive to detecting the condition, ownership of an earned item is conferred to the user account. An NFT collection is…

Social Shopping Experience Utilizing Interactive Mirror and Polling of Target Audience Members Identified by a Relationship with Product Information About an Item Being Worn by a User

Granted: March 23, 2023
Application Number: 20230088447
Example embodiments of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing an interactive and social fitting room experience. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include selecting a target audience to poll for feedback on an image of an individual wearing a garment in a fitting room. The method may further include transmitting the image to a computing device of each…

Systems And Methods For Multi-Signal Fault Analysis

Granted: March 16, 2023
Application Number: 20230084520
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…

System and Method for Aggregation and Comparison of Multi-Tab Content

Granted: March 16, 2023
Application Number: 20230082174
Methods, systems, and apparatus for facilitating a comparison of content in a user interface are described. Two or more open browser interfaces of a browser are identified, each of the two or more open browser interfaces containing an item description of one or more items. The browser interfaces include at least one of a tab of the browser or a window of the browser. One or more features related to each of the one or more items from at least two of the item descriptions are extracted or…

Selecting a Host Based on Quality of Stored Data

Granted: March 16, 2023
Application Number: 20230079026
A database node selects one of a number of database mirror hosts to perform a database read query. In theory, mirror hosts store redundant database entries. In practice, some mirror hosts fail to receive or retain some entries, e.g. if a mirror host was down for maintenance, a mirror host was overburdened, etc. The health of a mirror host, quantified as a health score, represents a likelihood that an insert statement was received and retained. Health scores are generated based on health…

Online Experiment Randomization Evaluation

Granted: March 9, 2023
Application Number: 20230075026
An online experiment system is described that generates a randomization evaluation for an online experiment, while the experiment is ongoing, indicating whether a distribution of experiment participants allocated to one or more participant groups satisfies an expected distribution. The online experiment system analyzes one of the experiment groups to obtain an observed distribution of the subset of experiment participants included in the experiment group. The online experiment system…

Digital Twin NFT Listing

Granted: March 9, 2023
Application Number: 20230073859
Listing NFTs associated with physical items is described. Input specifying at least one obligation to be performed as a condition for transferring an NET from a first digital wallet to a second digital wallet is received. A listing for the NFT is then generated with information that describes the NET and the at least one obligation. A smart contract template is also generated, which includes instructions that are configured to ensure performance of the at least one obligation and…

Rack Mountable Bracket

Granted: March 9, 2023
Application Number: 20230073674
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…

AUTOMATIC WORKFLOW GENERATION BASED ON ANNOTATED CODE STATEMENTS

Granted: March 9, 2023
Application Number: 20230071862
Automatic workflow generation is described. One or more files containing code statements for accessing and modifying information in a destination database is received. The code statements are parsed from the one or more files and dependencies between the code statements are determined. A dependency graph is built by arranging the code statements according to the dependencies between the code statements. The dependency graph is partitioned by identifying at least one barrier code…

End-User Device Testing of Websites and Applications

Granted: March 2, 2023
Application Number: 20230061640
An error reporting system is described that generates, for a user interface being output by a computing device, a report using one or more test scripts for the user interface locally at the computing device. In response to detecting input at an error reporting control included as part of the user interface, the error reporting system obtains test scripts designated for testing the user interface and generates test results by executing the test scripts at the computing device outputting…

Supplemental Digital Content Access Control using Nonfungible Tokens (NFTs)

Granted: March 2, 2023
Application Number: 20230062776
Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to control access to digital content through use of nonfungible tokens (NFTs). This is performed by leveraging a blockchain such that digital content associated with an item is made available to supplement use of the item (e.g., to supplement use of a physical item, digital content, and so forth) or make other functionality available based on a user's possession of the item.