eBay Patent Grants

Digital wardrobe

Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number: 12125095
Techniques for generating a digital wardrobe are presented herein. A transceiver can be configured to receive a request having a garment identifier and a user identifier. Additionally, an access module can be configured to access a first garment model, access a body model of the user corresponding to the user identifier, and access a second garment model corresponding to the user identifier. Furthermore, a processor can be configured by a garment simulation module to position the body…

System and methods for personalization and enhancement of a marketplace

Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number: 12125090
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for enhancing and personalizing an interactive marketplace. The systems and methods provided herein may allow a user to receive search results that are tailored to the user's personal preferences based on social and purchasing information known about the user. In addition, the systems and methods provided herein may provide shipping updates to a buyer that include a…

Item feature accuracy operations and interfaces in an item listing system

Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number: 12125047
Various methods and systems for providing indications of inconsistent attributes of item listings associated in item listing videos. An item listing video—of an item listing—is accessed. The item listing video is accessed via an item listing interface of an item listing system. Extracted item features—via a machine learning engine—of an item from the item listing video, are accessed. The extracted item features are extracted based on listing-interface item features associated…

Hands-free gestures for account authentication

Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number: 12124621
Systems and methods are provided for authenticating an account via a hands-free gesture, such as a tap, pattern of taps, or other physical gesture not requiring a user to hold a computing device. A user can initiate a transaction to purchase an item by interacting with a first computing device (e.g., electronic kiosk, point-of-sale terminal, automated checkout device, etc.). The first computing device can receive a request from the user to purchase the item. In response, the first…

Search result identification using vector aggregation

Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number: 12124522
Search queries are received and search results are provided. Interaction tracking is used to determine with which search results users interact. The search results having received interactions can be represented as item vectors, which can include a vector representation of a portion of the search result, such as a title, description, or image. For each search query, the item vectors are aggregated, such as by averaging the item vectors. The search queries are stored in an item dataset as…

Distributed storage of metadata for large binary data

Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number: 12124422
In an example embodiment, a distributed storage system includes a service tier including a service node to receive a request for a logical object comprising binary data and metadata describing the binary data, and a storage tier including a plurality of storage nodes, wherein one or more of the storage nodes is to store the metadata describing the binary data. The distributed storage system also includes a coordination tier to store mapping information identifying the one or more of the…

Geo-fenced marketplace

Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number: 12118586
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for a geo-fenced zone of commerce are described. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include subdividing a geographic area, generating corresponding geo-fences, and presenting the corresponding geo-fences as listings in a navigable online marketplace.

Decentralized shipping network using blockchains

Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number: 12118500
Technologies are shown for shipping route selection involving receiving sender and recipient shipping information for an item to be shipped and obtaining shipping route options for the item based on the sender and recipient shipping information. The route options are provided for display and selection of an option. A routing data block is created for the item at an address on a blockchain that stores shipping information for each stage of the selected route. A shipping tag is encoded…

Systems and methods for in-vehicle navigated shopping

Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number: 12117310
Systems and methods to provide a navigated-shopping service are discussed. In an example, a method for navigated-shopping can include receiving a destination location, accessing a route to the destination, displaying the route with indications of a plurality of items for purchase, receiving selection of a selected item, and purchasing the selected item. The plurality of items for purchase can be within a predefined distance of at least one point along the route. The selection of the…

Different action user-interface components in a comparison view

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12112364
Different action user-interface components in a comparison view are described. Initially, a selection is received to display a comparison view via a user interface of a listing platform. Multiple listings of the listing platform are selected for inclusion in the comparison view. A comparison view system determines which action of a plurality of actions, used by the listing platform, to associate with each of the listings. A display device displays the multiple listings concurrently in a…

Secure management of content distribution data blocks on a blockchain

Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number: 12106297
Technologies are shown for content distribution on a blockchain. An access request is received for digital content owned by a first entity and associated with one or more blocks of a blockchain. The access request is associated with a second entity. A current use condition associated with the second entity is verified to satisfy a use requirement conditions attribute defined by at least one of the one or more blocks of the blockchain. Responsive to verifying the current use condition…

Proactive re-routing of vehicles using passive monitoring of occupant frustration level

Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number: 12104917
Aspects of the present disclosure include a navigation system and computer-implemented methods for proactively re-routing vehicles based on an analysis of input component data obtained from the navigation-enabled devices. The navigation system scores the input component data to obtain a measure of frustration (e.g., a feeling of being upset or annoyed) of the user of the navigation-enabled device. The navigation system may provide a detour suggestion for display on the navigation-enabled…

Item inventory management system with vacuum-operated sorter

Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number: 12103048
An item sorting system is described. The item sorting system includes at least one bin that holds items to be sorted and a light source that illuminates the items stored in the at least one bin. In implementations, the at least one bin includes walls that direct light, received from the light source via a first surface, for emission via a second surface facing an interior of the at least one bin. The item sorting system further includes a recognition device that identifies the items for…

Removing purchases from online containers

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100036
Systems and methods are provided for identifying a first user account based on an indication of purchase of a first item; identifying a second user account associated with the first user account; determining a shared characteristic between the first item of the first user account and a second item in an online container associated with the second user account; determining a user interest of the second item based on user attribute data associated with the second user account and the…

Cosigning using tokenized reputation scores

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100001
Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to control access to transactions through use of cosigning based on tokenized reputation scores. This is performed by leveraging a blockchain such that tokenized reputation scores are generated based on amounts of cryptographic reputation tokens associated with blockchain account addresses associated with applicant and co-signer service provider accounts. Transactional functionality is made available to an applicant service…

Inventory item prediction and listing recommendation

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093864
An inventory prediction system is described that outputs a predicted inventory item not included in a user's known inventory using a cross-category directional graph that represents item categories as nodes. The inventory prediction system implements a prediction model trained using machine learning to output the predicted inventory item using the graph and at least one item from the user's known inventory. The inventory prediction system is further configured to generate a listing…

Method and system for identifying, managing, and monitoring data dependencies

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093326
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…

System and method for topic extraction and opinion mining

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12086191
Methods, apparatus, and systems to determine a niche market of items or services, the first phase of which identifies a gap between demand and supply for a set of items. Session logs may be evaluated to compare transactions involving a specific item to those of a larger group of items. The resultant information identifies areas of high demand, but with low availability. The niche market information may be provided as direct merchandising items for sellers. In one example, the method…

Identifying product items based on surge activity

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12086856
Various embodiments described herein assist in identifying one or more product items of interest (e.g., high demand product items) based on surge activity, such as user buying surges, user selling surges, and user product listing (e.g., electronic or online listing) surges on an online marketplace system, and can further notify one or more users of selling opportunities of the identified products items of interest.

Generating personalized banner images using machine learning

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12086840
A machine is configured to generate in real time personalized online banner images for users based on data pertaining to user behavior in relation to an image of a product. For example, the machine receives a user selection indicating one or more data features associated with the user. The one or more data features include a data feature pertaining to user behavior in relation to an image of a product. The machine generates, using a machine learning algorithm, a data representation of…