Digital model optimization responsive to orientation sensor data
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11188975
A system server includes a database of two-dimensional images and a processor coupled to a hardware memory with instructions that in response to execution by the processor direct performance of operations. The operations include generating a digital model from the images in the database and communicating a first portion of the digital model as an enhanced view to a user device. The first portion corresponds to a first line of sight orientation of the user device as measured by an…
Generating product listings using locker sensor data and reconfiguring lockers based on product size
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11188948
Systems and methods are presented for standardizing delivery of products in an online marketplace using one or more locker systems. In some embodiments, a system of lockers is presented. The locker system may be configured to store one or more products sold in an online marketplace. The locker system may also include a processor coupled to the one or more lockers and configured to generate access code information for a buyer to enable access to a locker storing the product. One or more…
Node bootstrapping in a social graph
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11188839
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…
Interactive displays based on user interest
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11188606
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 graphical user interface (GUI) on an interactive mirror display responsive to user interest. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include identifying an item of interest to an individual in a retail store and accessing detailed product information for the item from a product…
Diversifying search results
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11188601
Disclosed is a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for generating search results. A data access module accesses search results data indicative of a plurality items and that is indicative of ranking values of the plurality of items. A controller module generates page data based on the search results data. The controller module selects a first item from the plurality of items. A diversification module accesses…
Resource trust model for securing component state data for a resource using blockchains
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11188384
Technologies are shown for storing 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 components of the resource, generating a first component state data block for a component of the resource on a blockchain that includes first state data for the first component, and setting the link for the component to reference the first component state data block. Subsequently, a second…
Determining and dispatching a ride-share vehicle
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11187544
A method may include determining a transportation situation of a person. The method may also include selecting, based on the transportation situation, a particular ride-share vehicle from a plurality of ride-share vehicles for use by the person with respect to the transportation situation. The particular ride-share vehicle may be of a particular vehicle type based on the transportation situation.
Control bar for element activation
Granted: November 23, 2021
Patent Number:
11182136
A control bar for element activation is described. A design interface for editing digital content includes at least a first control bar and a second control bar. The first control bar is associated with a first element of the digital content and the second control bar is associated with a second element of the digital content that at least partially overlaps the first element in the digital content. The control bars are configured to remain visible and selectable in the design interface…
Providing an image of an item to advertise the item
Granted: November 23, 2021
Patent Number:
11182846
A first device captures an image of an item and provides the image depicting the item and a textual descriptor to a host machine. The host machine receives the image of the item and provides the image and textual descriptor to a second device. The second device initially presents the image as a listing of the item. The second device presents the textual descriptor and an option to initiate a communication to a first user associated with the first device upon request by a second user of…
Methods and systems for multi-merchant couponing
Granted: November 23, 2021
Patent Number:
11182832
Methods and systems for enabling multi-merchant coupon campaigns within an online publication system are described. In an example, a method can include generating an item listing, receiving information specifying a set of coupon criteria, detecting an event within a multi-merchant publication system, and present a coupon in response to detecting the event. The generating an item listing can be based on information received from a merchant-computer. If the set of coupon criteria is…
Techniques for displaying an animated calling card
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11176726
According to various exemplary embodiments, a communication request from a caller is received at a mobile device associated with a callee. A relationship between the caller and the callee is determined. Animation rule information is accessed, where the animation rule information describes a plurality of animation rules corresponding to a plurality of relationships. Thereafter, a display of an animation is generated via a user interface in the mobile device of the callee, based on a…
Dynamically generated machine learning models and visualization thereof
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11176589
Systems and methods provide real-time machine learning modeling, evaluation, and visualization. A computing system can receive input values for attributes of a new item listing. Concurrently, the system can analyze previous related item listings. The system can process the attributes and associated values of the new listing and previous listings to extract features and associated values. The system can apply the features of previous listings to machine learning algorithms to generate a…
Contextual secondary content for search results
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11176574
A search server is configured to return secondary content associated with primary content determined to be relevant to a search query. One or more databases store: (1) information identifying primary content items returnable as search results, (2) information identifying secondary content items, and (3) data identifying associations among the primary content items and the secondary content items. When the search server receives a search query, the one or more databases are queried to…
Presenting a customized landing page as a preview at a search engine
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11176218
Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for presenting a preview of a customized landing page at a search engine are provided. The search engine may provide search results that comprise a preview of the customized landing page, where a user may interact with the customized landing page while at the search engine. The user may select a landing-page link provided by the customized landing page using the preview at the search engine. Based on selecting the landing-page…
Generating personalized user recommendations using word vectors
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11176145
In various example embodiments, a system and method for constructing and scoring word vectors between natural language words and generating output to a user in the form of personalized recommendations are presented.
Detection of mission change in conversation
Granted: November 9, 2021
Patent Number:
11170769
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for detecting a mission changes in a conversation. A user utterance from a user device is received. The user utterance is part of a conversation with an intelligent assistant. The conversation includes preceding user utterances in pursuit of a first mission. It is determined that the user utterance indicates a mission change from the first mission to a second mission based on an application of a machine-learned model to the user…
Redirecting to a trusted device for secured data transmission
Granted: November 9, 2021
Patent Number:
11170367
In various example embodiments, a machine is configured to redirect completion of a transaction to a trusted device. For example, the machine determines that a page involving the transaction is being displayed in a user interface of a first device. The page may be associated with the product or service. The machine identifies an interruption of the displaying of the page in the user interface of the first device. The machine identifies a second device that is trusted by the user. The…
Sharing item images based on a similarity score
Granted: November 9, 2021
Patent Number:
11170003
Techniques for sharing item images based on a similarity score are described. For example, a machine receives a description of an item from a user device. The machine accesses an existing image. The existing image is associated with one or more existing descriptions of the item. The machine selects, based on a description selection rule, the one or more existing descriptions corresponding to the existing image for comparison with the description received from the user device. The machine…
Systems and methods for automatically reconfiguring a building structure
Granted: November 9, 2021
Patent Number:
11167925
Techniques for automatically modulating a physical configuration of a reconfigurable building structure. A reconfigurable building structure may be constructed of physical elements that are movable with respect to one another to facilitate actuating the reconfigurable building structure between a plurality of different physical configurations. The physical configuration of a reconfigurable building structure may be adjusted to accommodate for physical dimensions of an item that is going…
Data storage space recovery
Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number:
11163450
Storage space is reclaimed by cleaning and compacting data objects where data objects are stored by immutable storage. A storage area of which space needs to be reclaimed is identified. Active and stale data objects stored in a storage area are identified, and only active data objects are transferred to a shadow storage area from the storage area when recovering storage space. I/O operations can be fulfilled from the storage area and the shadow storage area. Compaction requests and I/O…
