Multimodal content recognition and contextual advertising and content delivery
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11240349
The present disclosure is directed to providing supplemental content to one or more client devices requesting multimedia content. The supplemental content may be determined or selected based on the availability of one or more device channels, such as a display, speakers, or other component of the one or more client devices capable of providing an output. The supplemental content may also be selected based on one or more characteristics of the requested multimedia content, such as a…
Social network initiated listings
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11238524
Social network initiated listings can be implemented by using keyword extraction of a social network post containing a sell code. The extracted keywords can be categorized using a machine based categorization system. The listing user account of the post creator can be identified using active session analysis. A listing is created using the listing user account. A new post that contains a URL to the listing is then programmatically published on the social network.
Conversational assistant using extracted guidance knowledge
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11238508
Systems and methods for improving an information provisioning system using a natural language conversational assistant is provided. A machine agent initiates an interactive natural language conversation with a user to provide the user with guidance on one or more products. The machine agent receives a request for information from the user, and accesses, from a product knowledge database, textual statements about features of the one or more products, whereby the textual statements are…
Using meta-information in neural machine translation
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11238348
Systems and methods for neural machine translation are provided. In one example, a neural machine translation system translates text and comprises processors and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor among the processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising, at least, obtaining a text as an input to a neural network system, supplementing the input text with meta information as an extra input to the neural network system, and delivering…
Binary coding for improved semantic search
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11238103
In some aspects, a query for one or more items is received. The query includes a plurality of terms. It is determined that a search result candidate is semantically similar to the query based at least in part on a distance between a first vector that represents the query and a second vector that represents the search result candidate in semantic space. The first vector and the second vector can each correspond to a single vector of binary values. Based at least in part on the determining…
Method and system for reducing connections to a database
Granted: January 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11233857
A system automatically maintains a plurality of client connections associated with a plurality of clients, the plurality of client connections including active and idle connections. A first server receives a request from a client of the plurality of clients to access a second server of a plurality of second servers communicatively coupled to the first server, the plurality of second servers having varying communication protocols. The first server then identifies a first communication…
Assigning customer lifetime value credit based on engagement
Granted: January 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11232462
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for assigning a Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) credit to an affiliate based engagement. Affiliate marketers are assigned a monetary CLV credit for new customers driven to an online retailer website by the affiliate. A CLV credit is a monetary award calculated based on a determined CLV for the new customer. The CLV represents an expected net profit to the online retailer that is attributed to the future relationship…
Product delivery service system in the electronic commerce using smart phone and method thereof
Granted: January 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11227253
Provided are a system and method for providing a product delivery service in an electronic transaction using a smartphone in which delivery product discharging devices are suitably disposed in specific places of main areas such as a subway station or a bus stop and a purchaser may conveniently pick up an ordered delivery product from a delivery product discharging device previously designated by the purchaser using a smartphone of the purchaser.
System and method for providing a portable and interactive storefront
Granted: January 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11227329
Example embodiments are directed to providing a portable and interactive user interface. A search request for content regarding a product or service is received from a client device of a user. In response to receiving the search request, an interactive user interface that includes a region for displaying the content regarding the product or service and an option to create a new interactive user interface is displayed. A selection of the option to create the new interactive user interface…
Specialized computer modules for enhancing user interfaces with item seasonality indicators
Granted: January 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11227297
A method of enhancing a user interface of a network-based publication system based on seasonality scores associated with items featured in listings posted on the network-based publication system is disclosed. Seasonality data is generated for each of the items. The generating of the seasonality data includes identifying a season corresponding to transaction data pertaining to each of the items and storing the seasonality data in conjunction with the transaction data in a database. The…
Semantic category classification
Granted: January 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11227004
In accordance with an example embodiment, large scale category classification based on sequence semantic embedding and parallel learning is described. In one example, one or more closest matches are identified by comparison between (i) a publication semantic vector that corresponds to at least part of the publication, the publication semantic vector based on a first machine-learned model that projects the at least part of the publication into a semantic vector space, and (ii) a plurality…
Multiple workspace database engine
Granted: January 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11226949
In various example embodiments, multiple workspaces have access to modify values in a graph database. The graph database can comprise a collection of entity nodes, where each entity node is connected to an identifier node and one or more state nodes. An update to an entity node can be recorded by generating a new state node to store the update and connecting the new state node to the entity node. How each workspace views the database is based, at least in part, on which state nodes are…
Multi request asynchronous delegation for enhanced performance
Granted: January 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11223670
Systems and methods for processing webpage calls via multiple module responses are described. A system may receive, from a client device, a first call for module data associated with a set of webpage modules for presentation in a webpage. The system may subsequently transmit, to the client device based on receiving the first call, a first response including first module data associated with a first subset of the set of webpage modules. The first response may additionally include a token…
Instant offer distribution system
Granted: January 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11222376
A real-time negotiation system to provide functionality to generate and cause display of specially configured graphical user interface for real-time negotiation within a networked marketplace. According to certain example embodiments, aspects of the real-time negotiation systems include various functional components to perform operations that include receiving a signal from a user, via a first client device, wherein the signal indicates an implicit interest in a first item that comprises…
Text translation using contextual information related to text objects in translated language
Granted: January 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11222373
In an example embodiment, text is received at an ecommerce service from a first user, the text in a first language and pertaining to a first listing on the ecommerce service. Contextual information about the first listing may be retrieved. The text may be translated to a second language. Then, a plurality of text objects, in the second language, similar to the translated text may be located in a database, each of the text objects corresponding to a listing. Then, the plurality of text…
Generating a digital image using a generative adversarial network
Granted: January 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11222246
Various embodiments described herein utilize multiple levels of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to facilitate generation of digital images based on user-provided images. Some embodiments comprise a first generative adversarial network (GAN) and a second GAN coupled to the first GAN, where the first GAN includes an image generator and at least two discriminators, and the second GAN includes an image generator and at least one discriminator. According to some embodiments, the…
System and method for managing an item collection
Granted: January 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11222065
Example embodiments provide item notifications. A networked system receives, from a device of a user, a selection of an item from a list for monitoring. The network system also receives, from the device of the user, a condition that triggers the reporting of news for the selected item. The network system monitors for news for the selected item. A determination is made as to whether the condition that triggers the reporting of the news is satisfied. In response to determining that the…
Generating structured queries from images
Granted: January 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11222064
Images of items often include a significant amount of information that can be used in categorizing the item (e.g., as a book, a phone, or an accessory) or in identifying attributes of the item (e.g., the item's color or style). A user provides a search query for listings of items. Images of items in listings previously selected by users providing the same search query are analyzed to identify the category or attributes of the depicted items. The identified category or attributes are…
Next generation near real-time indexing
Granted: January 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11216430
Methods and systems to build and utilize a search infrastructure are described. The system generates, by a first indexing subsystem, full indexes of data and sends the full indexes to a plurality of query node servers via a distribution system. The system generates, mini-indexes associated with the full indexes and sends the mini-indexes to the plurality of query node servers. The system causes the plurality of query nodes to update indexing information based on the full indexes and the…
Search system for providing query result items based on highest skip probabilities of item title tokens
Granted: January 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11216515
Various methods and systems for providing query result items using an item title demand model are provided. A query is received at a search engine. Based on receiving the query, an item title demand engine is accessed. The item title demand engine operates based on an item title demand model which uses token weights, representing skip probabilities of tokens in item titles, to determine title scores for result item titles for corresponding queries. Based on accessing the item title…
