eBay Patent Grants

Multi-dimensional commerce platform

Granted: April 5, 2022
Patent Number: 11295373
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a multi-dimensional commerce platform that may be utilized for the communication of data. Aspects of the multi-dimensional commerce platform may include various functional components to facilitate a system to receive inventory data at a first server associated with the multi-dimensional commerce platform, provide a second server associated with a third-party (e.g., a third party seller/distributor) access to the inventory data, alter or modify…

System and method to create listings using image and voice recognition

Granted: April 5, 2022
Patent Number: 11295362
In various example embodiments, a system and method to provide services associated with an image is disclosed. The method includes receiving image data of an item of interest from a client device. The image data is used to identify a similar item from an image catalog based on the image data of the item. Attribute information associated with the similar item is retrieved and used to pre-populate a template. The pre-populated template is sent to the client device, and modified data from…

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…

Centralized client application management

Granted: April 5, 2022
Patent Number: 11294659
Systems and methods for centralized client application management are provided. In an example embodiment, device data is received from a user device. The user device is identified according to an identification rule. A client state is received from the user device. A match between the client state and a specified state is determined. Based on the client state matching the specified state, an instruction to be performed on the user device is generated. The instruction is caused to be…

Synchronizing augmented or virtual reality (AR/VR) applications with companion device interfaces

Granted: April 5, 2022
Patent Number: 11294482
An augmented reality or virtual reality (AR/VR) device pairs with a companion device to augment input interfaces associated with an AR/VR application at the AR/VR device. In implementations, an AR/VR device determines a portion of a markup file that corresponds to an AR/VR scene of a plurality of AR/VR scenes in an AR/VR environment, and communicates the portion of the markup file to the companion device to cause the companion device to configure a companion user interface associated…

Hybrid cloud identity mapping infrastructure

Granted: March 29, 2022
Patent Number: 11290337
In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method for providing a hybrid cloud computing environment are disclosed. For example, a system may authorize an enterprise user based on an enterprise identity. Once authenticated, embodiments may use mapping data and a cloud role to determine an identity to use when the enterprise user accesses a cloud.

Selective presentation of real-time contact options based on user and system parameters

Granted: March 29, 2022
Patent Number: 11288680
Embodiments for presenting real-time contact options are described herein. In example embodiments, as system identifies a number of user devices actively viewing a web page that includes a real-time contact option. The system then determines whether the number of user devices actively viewing the web page that includes the real-time contact option exceeds a predetermined limit. If the number of user devices actively viewing the web page that includes the real-time contact option exceeds…

Digital rights management in three-dimensional (3D) printing

Granted: March 22, 2022
Patent Number: 11282120
Systems, methods and media for managing digital rights in three-dimensional (3D) printing are provided. In one example, a registration of digital rights in a first 3D object is received from a first user and via a portal. The registration includes a certification device. The registration including the certification device is published in an online environment, and the first 3D object is made available for replication by second users via the portal. A request for access to the digital…

Computer system authentication using security indicator

Granted: March 22, 2022
Patent Number: 11283786
A method to authenticate a first computer system over a network to a second computer system is disclosed. A login user interface (UI) is presented to a user of the first computer system while disconnected from the second computer system. The login UI presents at least one input field to receive login input from the user and a security indicator that has been previously selected by the user and that is local to the first computer system. Login input is selectively received from the user…

Garment tags for intelligent laundering alerts

Granted: March 22, 2022
Patent Number: 11282368
Aspects of the present disclosure involve an apparatus, systems, and methods for providing intelligent laundering alerts. Example embodiments involve an intelligent garment tag that may be affixed to garments, and may store and provide information about the garment to which it is affixed. The information stored thereon describes various aspects of the garment including color, fabric, and laundering information. The intelligent garment tags further include an alert component for providing…

Image quality assessment to merchandise an item

Granted: March 22, 2022
Patent Number: 11282116
Image-based features may be significantly correlated with click-through rates of images that depict a product, which may provide a more formal basis for the informal notion that good quality images will result in better click-through rates, as compared to poor quality images. Accordingly, an image assessment machine is configured to analyze image-based features to improve click-through rates for shopping search applications (e.g., a product search engine). Moreover, the image assessment…

Tracking advertisements using a single URL without redirection

Granted: March 22, 2022
Patent Number: 11282107
Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for tracking an advertisement based on the advertisement's context. The tracking, URL, HTTP header, and landing page engines may generate a single URL for both display and tracking of an advertised item, along with HTTP headers, based on an advertisement event. In response to a call of that generated URL and HTTP headers, landing page content that includes embedded middleware may be transmitted. The received URL and HTTP header…

Mechanism for efficient storage of graph data

Granted: March 22, 2022
Patent Number: 11281649
Aspects of the present disclosure include a system comprising a machine-readable storage medium storing at least one program and computer-implemented methods for efficiently storing graph data. Consistent with some embodiments, the method includes using the graph data to construct a tree topology bitmap that represents a topology of a portion of the nodes in a tree data structure representing the graph data. The method further includes creating an archive bit array for the tree data…

Method and system for problem modification and processing

Granted: March 22, 2022
Patent Number: 11281515
A notification of a problem associated with an application may be received. A difference may be determined between a problem version of the application and an operational version of the application to identify a change associated with the problem. A person associated with the change may be determined. A task of resolving the problem may be assigned to the person associated with the change. A person may be notified of the problem and of the assigning of the task based on the identified…

Dynamic modifications of results for search interfaces

Granted: March 15, 2022
Patent Number: 11275746
The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems, and methods for enhancing search results based on recent user interactions. As described herein, embodiments may infer various refinements for search queries; these refinements are based, at least in part, on the user's recent interactions with the search platform (e.g., within a current session). In other words, as the user is interacting with the search platform, one or more refinements may be inferred to help make the search…

Method system and medium for generating virtual contexts from three dimensional models

Granted: March 8, 2022
Patent Number: 11270373
Techniques for generated and presenting images of items within user selected context images are presented herein. In an example embodiment, an access module can be configured to receive a first environment model and a first wearable item model. A simulation module coupled to the access module may process the environment model to identify placement volumes within the environment model and to place a clothed body model within the placement volume to generate a context model. A rendering…

Scheduling and operations optimization

Granted: March 8, 2022
Patent Number: 11270249
A system and method optimize delivery of a good from a seller to a buyer through a drop-off location. The system illustratively includes at least one processor, configured to identify at least one attribute of the good from a plurality of such attributes; identify at least one attribute of the drop-off location from a plurality of such attributes; compile a match between the identified at least one attribute of the good and the identified at least one attribute of the drop-off location;…

Network address management systems and methods

Granted: March 8, 2022
Patent Number: 11269659
Systems and methods provide for a network address management system for generating consistent network addresses to computing resources and for developing applications that are resilient to changes in the network addresses to those resources. In an embodiment, a consumer application executing on a computing system can receive a network address schema for a provider application via a library. The library may include a function for constructing a network address to the provider application.…

Methods and systems for displaying content on multiple networked devices with a simple command

Granted: March 8, 2022
Patent Number: 11269583
A method for displaying content displayed on one or more first devices on a second device is provided. The method includes receiving a request to display content currently displayed on a first device on a second device, the request including a gesture made on a screen of the first device, and pairing the first device to the second device. The method further includes transmitting instructions to the second device to display the content currently displayed on the first device, and…

Node bootstrapping in a social graph

Granted: March 1, 2022
Patent Number: 11263543
A method includes identifying a graph of a social network, the graph including nodes and edges, each edge connects two nodes, some of the plurality of nodes represent members of the social network, some edges of the plurality of edges represent a relationship between two associated nodes, creating a first taste profile for a first member node, the taste profile identifying a first entity of interest to the first member, identifying a second member node based on an absence of a second…