Generative grammar models for effective promotion and advertising
Granted: May 3, 2022
Patent Number:
11321539
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for creating advertisement messages using generative grammar models is presented. A generative grammar model defining a message structure of requested message is accessed. The message structure includes a plurality of lexical slots. The generative grammar model includes a corpus of source data to populate each lexical slot in the plurality of lexical slots to generate an…
Systems and methods for matching a user to social data
Granted: May 3, 2022
Patent Number:
11321405
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for matching a user profile on an online platform to a user record of a network-based content publisher. A user profile from which an entry published to an online platform originated is identified. The entry includes a reference to content hosted by a network-based content publisher. The user profile is matched with a user record maintained by the network-based content…
Multi-dimensional search
Granted: May 3, 2022
Patent Number:
11321334
Example methods and systems are directed to providing multi-dimensional search results. A source (e.g., a closed captioning stream) may provide a series of keywords. The series of keywords may be used to generate a series of searches. The results from the searches may be presented as part of a user interface in a grid. For example, one row may be presented for each keyword, with the row for the keyword containing the results from searching using that keyword. Alternatively, one column…
Passive dynamic geofencing for mobile devices
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11317239
Systems and methods for passive dynamic geofencing on a mobile device are discussed. For example, a method for passive dynamic geofencing can include operations such as monitoring a first parent geofence and a first plurality of child geofences; detecting crossing a boundary of the first parent geofence into a second parent geofence; loading the second parent geofence and a second plurality of child geofences encompassed by the second parent geofence; and monitoring the second parent…
System for data transfer based on associated transfer paths
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11316953
Methods, systems, and apparatus for transferring data are described. A list of recipients of the data is obtained and one or more paths to each recipient of the data is determined. An overall transfer cost of each path is computed and one or more transfer paths for each recipient are selected based on a corresponding overall transfer cost. Then a packet of data is transferred to a client device associated with each transfer path.
Systems and methods for facilitating feed in a network-based marketplace
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11315172
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…
Method and system for exposing data used in ranking search results
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11315155
Methods and systems enable access to listing performance data associated with a search engine. A request for listing performance data for an item is received from a client computing system. The request is associated with a keyword and/or a category. The request is processed to retrieve the listing performance data corresponding to the item, and a value is determined that indicates a strength of the item in a search results listing having a plurality of search results based on a search…
Smart match autocomplete system
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11314791
Aspects of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and computer-implemented methods for providing suggestions of additional input to users entering user input into a data input field. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving initial user input entered via a data input field of a user interface rendered on a client device, and identifying a dominant category corresponding to the initial user input. The…
Systems and methods to identify a filter set in a query comprised of keywords
Granted: April 19, 2022
Patent Number:
11308174
Systems and methods to identify a filter set in a keyword query are described. The system receives a query from a client machine. The system identifies filter sets based on the query and a based on rules. The filter sets include a first filter set that includes a first filter. The rules are utilized to associate at the least one keyword from the query to the first filter. The system further scores the filter sets based on probabilities to generate scores. The probabilities describe…
Method and system to process navigation information
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11303694
A system to process navigation information includes a receiving module to receive a data request from a network entity. The data request includes a network entity identifier that uniquely identifies the network entity. The system further includes an application to generate a network event based on the data request, the network event including the navigation information. Finally, the system includes a publisher module to communicate the network event to a first server that is…
Rate-limiting based on cardinality computation
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11303545
A cloud-based service records time-series data of a plurality of metrics from a plurality of tenants. The time-series data comprises a series of measures of a metric at sequential points in time. The time-series data is recorded in database tables in a manner that consumes more resources when the cardinality of the time-series data is high. When the cardinality of the data for the tenant is too high, the tenant is blacklisted and further data for the tenant is not stored. In addition to…
Providing gesture functionality
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11301920
Gesture functionality is provided in a computing environment. In example embodiments, a gesture input is received. A style difference is identified between a known gesture input of a set of known gesture inputs and the received gesture input. The set of known gesture inputs is caused to be modified to include the style difference by updating a database that stores the set of known gesture inputs.
Methods and systems for virtual fitting rooms or hybrid stores
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11301912
Disclosed are a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for digital inventories. An application interface module receives a request message from a user device at a physical store location linked to an online marketplace. The request message indicates a request to determine availability of a target item at the physical store location. The user device is linked to a user. In response to the request message, a…
Computing asset access control
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11301551
Access to computing assets is controlled by dynamically selecting an authentication process for an access attempt to a computing asset. In an example embodiment, when an indication of an access attempt for a computing asset is received, a security level associated with the computing asset is determined. Based on the security level associated with the computing asset, an authentication process is selected from a plurality of authentication processes, and the selected authentication…
Method and system for identifying, managing, and monitoring data dependencies
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11301517
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…
Projecting visual aspects into a vector space
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11301511
In various example embodiments, a system and method for projecting visual aspects into a vector space are presented. A query that includes visual data is received by the system from a client device. A visual aspect indicated in the visual data is analyzed. One or more symbols that correspond to the analyzed visual aspect is generated by the system. The analyzed visual aspect is projected into a vector space using the one or more symbols. A group of projections are identified, the group…
Obtaining item listings matching a distinguishing style of an image selected in a user interface
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11301510
In an example embodiment, a selection of an image in a user interface is received. Then information about the image is received. Then a look is identified for the image, wherein the look is a category for the image based at least in part on one or more visual attributes of the image as shown in the image The identified look is then compared with one or more item listings stored in a database to identify one or more matching item listings, the one or more matching item listings containing…
Corrective database connection management
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11301316
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…
Waist measuring belt
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11300465
In various example embodiments, devices, systems, and methods for a waist measuring belt are provided. An example waist measuring belt is made up of a belt buckle frame with attachments for a belt strap. The belt further includes a position measuring module coupled to the belt buckle frame that measures an attachment position of a second end of the belt strap to the belt buckle frame. The belt also includes a tension measuring module coupled to the belt buckle frame that measures a…
Preemptive connection pool adjustments
Granted: April 5, 2022
Patent Number:
11294923
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…
