Mobile application to conduct an auction based on physical presence
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138656
A mobile application to conduct an auction based on physical presence is provided. The mobile application may be provided by a system comprising one or more modules. A notification module may identify an item to be sold at an auction. If a pre-auction window time period has arrived, the notification module may transmit auction notification messages to a plurality of client devices located within a predefined geographical area. A bidding module may conduct the auction by providing an…
Server, method, and computer-readable storage medium for identifying computing devices with geographic proximity to desired item attributes
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138649
A server receives a description of an item from a first computing device. The server determines attributes of the item based on the description of the item. The server identifies a geographic region based on the attributes of the item. The server identifies a second computing device that is located in the geographic region and generates a first query to the second computing device. The server receives additional item data based on a physical presence of the item in the geographic region…
System and method for dynamic inventory management
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138559
A system, method, and computer program product for managing a physical inventory. Image data from a number of cameras is processed to recognize inventory items from identifying indicia and determine their respective locations to build a three-dimensional model of the inventory item distribution. Comparison with a database model of the inventory item distribution may indicate discrepancies, such as misplaced items. A picking agent may be dispatched to pick a target item by following a…
Dependency lock in CICD pipelines
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11137998
Deployment of a modified service affects the functioning of other services that make use of the service. To address the problems that deployment of modified executable code can cause in other services, a dependency lock is placed on candidate code to prevent deployment until tests on the client services are successfully completed. Developers of client services that rely on a supplier service are enabled to place a dependency lock on the service. As a result, deployment of the supplier…
Adjusting an interface based on a cognitive mode
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11137870
In various example embodiments, a system and method for adjusting a user interface according to a cognitive mode is disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of user events based on a user interacting with a system, determining a cognitive operating mode of the user based on the user events, with the cognitive operating mode selected from a predefined set of cognitive operating modes, and modifying a user interface element according to the cognitive…
Dynamic predefined product reviews
Granted: September 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11132722
In an example embodiment, user feedback on a purchased item is received from a user. Attributes of the purchased item are identified. Then relevant attributes are determined from the attributes, the determination of relevant attributes being based on user information regarding the user. Comments for the relevant attributes are generated based on the user feedback. The comments are then displayed to the user for selection and posting.
System and method for managing transactions in a digital marketplace
Granted: September 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11132656
In various example embodiments, a system and method for managing transaction in a digital marketplace are provided. In example embodiments, a transaction request involving a digital good is received. A determination as to whether the transaction involves a purchase of the digital good is performed. Based on the transaction involving the purchase of the digital good, a further determination as to whether an overlap in inventory or a related item involving the digital good exists is…
Method of identifying temporal demand of queries and metadata to give better autocomplete queries and improved search results
Granted: September 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11132405
Embodiments describe systems and methods for identifying temporal demand for queries and using metadata to modify autocomplete results. In one embodiment, a record of historical queries is stored by a system and analyzed to identify periodic or repeated events where demand for autocomplete results associated with one or more categories deviates from normal demand. A temporal model based on this record is used to adjust autocomplete search results during subsequent time periods associated…
Finding products that are similar to a product selected from a plurality of products
Granted: September 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11132391
A system and method, which may be an offline method, extracts relevant image features about listing items in a network-based publication system for enabling image similarity searching of such listing items. When a seller lists an item, an image of the item is uploaded and may be sent to a picture processing service, which generates several digests. The digests are compressed data structures each representing a particular image feature such as edge, color, texture, or words. These digests…
Portable electronic device with user-configurable API data endpoint
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11128631
Systems, devices methods and media are provided for selecting data received from or sent by a client device. In one example, a system is configured to initiate a user-configurable API data endpoint on the client device and issue a request for access to specified data residing on the client device. The specified data resides in a first user-designated storage area on the client device. In response to receiving an authorization by a user of the client device of the access request, the…
Social interactive wagering system
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11127248
A system and method includes one or more processors coupled to a memory, the one or more processors operable to read instructions from the memory to perform one or more steps or operations. The operations may include receiving a signal from a first device, sending a first code and an instruction to broadcast the code to a broadcasting device based on the signal, receiving an access request and a second code broadcasted from the broadcasting device from a second user device, and granting…
Negotiation platform in an online environment
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11127098
A method and a system for providing a negotiation platform in the event that a listing fails by becoming inactive without the offering being sold are provided. For example, a negotiation eligibility detector may detect a failed listing of an offering. The listing may be associated with a first user and a first offer. A potential buyer detector may identify at least one potential buyer based on a user action associated with the failed listing. A negotiation manager may be in communication…
Camera platform incorporating schedule and stature
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11126849
Camera platform techniques are described. In an implementation, a plurality of digital images and data describing times, at which, the plurality of digital images are captured is received by a computing device. Objects of clothing are recognized from the digital images by the computing device using object recognition as part of machine learning. A user schedule is also received by the computing device that describes user appointments and times, at which, the appointments are scheduled. A…
Augmented reality, computer vision, and digital ticketing systems
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11126846
Augmented reality, computer vision, and digital ticketing system techniques are described that employ a location determination system. In one example, the location determination system is configured to receiving at least one digital image as part of a live camera feed, identify an object included in the at least one digital image using object recognition, determine a location of the object in relation to a digital map of a physical environment, generate augmented reality digital content…
Preview and optimization of publication for target computing device
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11126685
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for optimizing an input publication with augmented content for optimization across multiple types of computing devices. An input publication is analyzed to extract structure and meaning from the input publication to match the input publication with a standardized publication of a standardized publication catalog, the standardized publication having content that is optimized be displayed on a plurality of computing devices. A preview…
System and method for identifying miscategorization
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11126631
A categorization analysis system is provided. The categorization analysis system includes one or more hardware processors, a memory including a first plurality of listings categorized in a first target category, and a categorization analysis engine executing on the one or more hardware processors. The categorization analysis engine is configured to determine a label for each listing including performing a search on title, select a set of training listings based on the determined labels,…
System, method and computer-readable medium for enhancing search queries using user implicit data
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11126628
Systems and methods are disclosed for enhancing user queries. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving user data from a plurality of users in respective user sessions where the user data for each user includes at least one manufacturer-identified term for a product and at least one user term for the product, associating the user term for the product and the manufacturer-identified term for the product in response to receiving the user term and the manufacturer-identified term…
Joint-based item recognition
Granted: September 14, 2021
Patent Number:
11120478
For an input image of a person, a set of object proposals are generated in the form of bounding boxes. A pose detector identifies coordinates in the image corresponding to locations on the person's body, such as the waist, head, hands, and feet of the person. A convolutional neural network receives the portions of the input image defined by the bounding boxes and generates a feature vector for each image portion. The feature vectors are input to one or more support vector machine…
Method, medium, and system for social media based recommendations
Granted: September 14, 2021
Patent Number:
11120491
A user may request a recommendation for an item from other users. Other users may respond to the request by recommending for or against items. Users may up-vote or down-vote the recommendations or responses of other users. The recommendations of the other users may be used to identify items and provide one or more recommendations to the requesting user. The original question and the responses may form a conversation thread. The recommendations may be inserted into the thread as…
Systems and methods to search a data source based on a compatibility with an application
Granted: September 14, 2021
Patent Number:
11120484
Methods and systems to search a data source based on compatibility with an application. The system receives a first query that includes keywords and identifies at least one keyword in the first query as application information. The application information describes a first application. Next the system infers remaining keywords in the first query as item information that describe a first item that is sought on a network-based marketplace. The first item is a part that is compatible with…
