Structured item organizing mechanism in e-commerce
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687991
Systems and methods for organizing structured items in an e-commerce system are presented. In some aspects, the systems and methods may include a back-end structured item organizing system associated with a front-end category mapping system which is configured to process use case requests. In some aspects, a use case request may identify an item for classification by the back-end structured organizing system. In some aspects, the described systems and methods may select a listing bucket…
Digital service resource allocation and sharing
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687979
Techniques for resource allocation with content creators are described that overcome the challenges of conventional techniques by supporting customized digital content generation and resource allocation specified by content creators of digital content. In one example, a content provider system, based on user input received via a control, specifies the portions of a resource allocation to be shared. A first portion is configured to be shared with a content creator of digital content, the…
Tap to subscribe to text message alerts
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687972
A method and a system include receiving an alert enrollment request based on a user selection from a mobile device of a user, the mobile device corresponding to a communication endpoint identifier; generating a user interface element that corresponds to a confirmation of an option to initiating a communication channel; in response to receiving an indication of the confirmation, initiating the communication channel via the mobile device; and transmitting an invitation of a survey…
Systems and methods for an e-commerce enabled digital whiteboard
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687883
Systems and methods for an e-commerce enabled digital whiteboard are described. The system receives first initialization information, over a network, from a mobile device that includes a description of a first vehicle and a description of a first repair for the first vehicle. The first initialization information is stored in a first context. The system further receives a first request to attach the first context to an online collaborative workspace. The system further attaches the first…
Display orientation adjustment using facial landmark information
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687153
Systems and methods disclosed herein may operate to adjust display orientation of a user device based on facial landmark information. In various embodiments, information identifying and describing a facial landmark of a user may be received via a user device corresponding to the user. Head orientation of the user may be determined based at least in part on the information identifying and describing the facial landmark. A display unit of the user device may be automatically signaled to…
Item recommendations based on image feature data
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11682141
An apparatus and method to adjust item recommendations are disclosed herein. A first image attribute of a query image is compared to a second image attribute of each of a plurality of inventory images of a plurality of inventory items to identify the inventory items similar to the query image. Item recommendations comprising the identified inventory items in a first listing order are provided for display at a remote device. A second listing order of the identified inventory items is…
Methods, systems and apparatus for providing video communications
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11683442
Methods, systems, and apparatus for conducting a video conference. A location of one or more sets of eyes in an image may be determined. The relative location of an image capture device and/or a portion of a display device may be adjusted based on the determined location.
System and method of using conversational agent to collect information and trigger actions
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11683279
Example embodiments provide a system that uses a conversational agent to collect information and publish the information on a network. A computer-implemented conversational agent establishes a communication session with a user and receives conversational information via a simulated conversation between the user and the computer-implemented conversational agent via the communication session, whereby the conversational information comprises information to be published. The…
Masked key hopping
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11683169
Systems and methods for managing keys in a computer memory are described. In some embodiments, location addresses are determined for two key elements. A periodic time interval that is based on a time duration for performing a transaction involving a distance between the key elements is determined. One key element may be stored at a location address and then relocated to another location address after the periodic time interval has passed. In some embodiments, areas the computer memory…
Systems and methods for publishing and/or sharing media presentations over a network
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11682150
In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods for publishing and/or sharing media presentations over a network comprise communicating with a user and one or more distribution channels via the network, gathering media resources based on user input, creating a media presentation with the media resources based on user input, and publishing the media presentation by distributing the media presentation to the one or more distribution channels via…
Method, computer readable storage devices, and computer device for mapping visual diagram portions to parts listing information
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11682059
Visual diagram searching techniques are described herein. A visual diagram service enables users to efficiently search for data for item parts even in cases where the name of the item part is unknown. In one or more examples, search query input to locate item parts of an item is received via a user interface displayed by at least one computing device. A visual diagram of the item is displayed in the user interface. The visual diagram includes selectable portions mapped to respective item…
Automatic listing of items based on user specified parameters
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11682030
Methods and systems for automatic publication of listings on an ecommerce system are disclosed. In one aspects, a method include filtering historical item listings for items to those items having a similarity to a particular item, determining predictions of future sales prices over future time periods for the particular item based on the filtered historical items, the determined predictions including future sales prices having different probabilities of sale completion, receiving a user…
Search and notification in response to a request
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11681768
Disclosed are methods and systems for displaying an indication of a number of items in a user interface. Some aspects include processing circuitry and hardware memory storing instructions that when executed cause the processing circuitry to perform operations. The operations may include receiving input defining an item, receiving sensor data for the item, and displaying a number of items in the environment based on the sensor data.
Digital image presentation
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11681745
A computer implemented method to present digital images may include storing a digital image in a database and applying a digital image processing technique to the digital image to identify a region of interest of the digital image. The method may also include storing region data that identifies the region of interest of the digital image in the database and receiving a request for information associated with the digital image from a digital device. In response to the request, the method…
Resource trust model for securing component state data for a resource using blockchains
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11681551
Technologies are shown for storing sub-component state data for a resource on a blockchain involving generating a resource data block that corresponds to a resource that includes links that correspond to sub-components of the resource, generating a first sub-component state data block for a sub-component of the resource on a blockchain that includes first state data for the first sub-component, and setting the link for the sub-component to reference the first sub-component state data…
Method for detecting and analyzing site quality
Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number:
11675871
A method and system for analyzing sites is described. A scanner module scans listings of an online publication. A quality engine analyzes the quality of the listings. A data collection module collects defective conditions of the listings determined by the quality engine. A report module reports the defective conditions of the listings. An auto correction module automatically corrects at least a first portion of the defective conditions of the listings. A manual correction module enables…
System and method for pool-based identity authentication for service access without use of stored credentials
Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number:
11677734
A computer-implemented system and method for pool-based identity authentication for service access without use of stored credentials is disclosed. The method in an example embodiment includes providing provisioning information for storage in a provisioning repository; receiving a service request from a service consumer, the service request including requestor identifying information; generating an authentication request to send to an authentication authority, the authentication request…
Blockchain consensus protocol using predictive proof of metrics
Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number:
11676135
Technologies are shown for selecting a provider to service a client service request using a predictive metrics based consensus protocol to select a provider and create a service request transaction block to service the client service request. A client service request is received and forwarded to a set of providers. Proposed transactions are received from the providers and scored based on a predictive metric. A proposal transaction is selected based on the scoring and the selected…
Lip-reading session triggering events
Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number:
11670301
Techniques for lip-reading session triggering events are described. A computing device is equipped with lip-reading capability that enables the device to “read the lips” (i.e., facial features) of a user. The computing device determines when a triggering event occurs to automatically cause the computing device to switch from one input type to a lip-reading session. Lip-reading is also used in conjunction with other types of inputs to improve accuracy of the input. Machine learning is…
In-list search results page for price research
Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number:
11669876
A method of setting a listing price for an item is disclosed. One or attributes of the item are determined based on data entered into fields of a listing user interface. One or more additional items are identified based on a comparison of one or more attributes of the one or more additional items with the one or more attributes of the item. Sales information associated with the one or more additional items is determined. A range of suggested prices and at least some of the sales…
