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Enhanced shopping actions on a mobile device

Granted: March 16, 2021
Patent Number: 10949905
Example embodiments described herein disclose a specially configured device to receive and recognize enhanced user interactions through a graphical user interface. A user device may accordingly receive and display a set of search results, detect a user input entered via a touch-input device related to a single item from among the set of search results, determine a pressure exerted upon the touch-input device corresponding to the user input, and based on at least the pressure of the user…

Systems and methods for inferred review

Granted: March 16, 2021
Patent Number: 10949899
Systems and methods are provided for generating inferred reviews of service providers. Inferred reviews may be generated based on user behavior data for one or more users. The user behavior data may include information that represents how far a user travels to a service provider, how many similar service providers the user passes on the way to the service provider, a number of repeat visits to the service provider, a typical time for services at the service provider, or a length of time…

Camera platform and object inventory control

Granted: March 16, 2021
Patent Number: 10949667
Camera platform and object inventory control techniques are described. In an implementation a live feed of digital images is output in a user interface by a computing device. A user selection is received through interaction with the user interface of at least one of the digital images. An object, included within the at least one digital image, is recognized using machine learning. Metadata is then obtained that pertains to the recognized object. Augmented reality digital content is…

Search system for providing web crawling query prioritization based on classification operation performance

Granted: March 16, 2021
Patent Number: 10949475
Various methods and systems for processing web crawling queries using a web crawling prioritization model based on classification operation performance. A classification operation for organizing products in a product listing platform is accessed. A web crawling engine is accessed for the classification operation. The web crawling engine operates based on a web crawling query prioritization model that supports determining web crawling priority scores that indicate a predicted performance…

Anomaly detection for web document revision

Granted: March 9, 2021
Patent Number: 10944774
Aspects of the present disclosure include a system comprising a machine-readable storage medium storing at least one program and computer-implemented methods for detecting anomalies in revisions to a web document. Consistent with some embodiments, a method includes publishing, at a network-based content publication platform, a web document comprising a plurality of distinct elements generated using data received from a computing device of a user. The method further includes accessing an…

Spot market: location aware commerce for an event

Granted: March 9, 2021
Patent Number: 10943277
A system to receive data indicative of physical location from a first computing device and to associate an event with the physical location, the event occurring at the physical location and including the physical presence of two or more entities. The system further to receive registration information from one or more entities that are associated with the event and to generate, using the registration information, a data object to enable a first entity of the one or more entities and a…

Tap to subscribe to text message alerts

Granted: March 9, 2021
Patent Number: 10943264
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for providing text message alerts. A telephony interface module receives an alert enrollment request from a client device. The alert enrollment request is received through a first type of communication channel. The alert enrollment request includes a protocol specific portion that includes a communication endpoint identifier assigned to the client device. A data database…

Visual aspect localization presentation

Granted: March 9, 2021
Patent Number: 10943176
Various embodiments use a neural network to analyze images for aspects that characterize the images, to present locations of those aspects on the images, and, additionally, to permit a user to interact with those locations on the images. For example, a user may interact with a visual cue over one of those locations to modify, refine, or filter the results of a visual search, performed on a publication corpus, that uses an input image (e.g., one captured using a mobile device) as a search…

Searchable texture index

Granted: March 2, 2021
Patent Number: 10937079
Electronic content that has a tactile dimension when presented on a tactile-enabled computing device may be referred to as tactile-enabled content. A tactile-enabled device is a device that is capable of presenting tactile-enabled content in a manner that permits a user to experience tactile quality of electronic content. In one example embodiment, a system is provided for generating content that has a tactile dimension when presented on a tactile-enabled device.

System and method for establishing and maintaining a connection between devices

Granted: March 2, 2021
Patent Number: 10939325
A system and method to establish and maintain a connection between devices, which in one example embodiment of a method, may comprise receiving a request to establish a connection between a first communication device and a second communication device. A determination is made as to whether the second communication device is reachable via a data network. Based on the determination that the second communication device is reachable over the data network, a connection between the first…

Method and apparatus for image recognition services

Granted: March 2, 2021
Patent Number: 10936650
A system to provide image processing services responsive to requests including image data includes a system layer that forwards a request to an image application processing interface. Image processing provides an image comparison, barcode recognition, and optical character recognition. The image processing compares the image data to products in a database in order to identify a matching product. The system layer receives the matching information and forwards to a user.

Enhanced search query suggestions

Granted: March 2, 2021
Patent Number: 10936632
In various example embodiments, a system and method for enhancing autocomplete search suggestions are presented. The system receives a query portion with a token portion from a client device and generates a first search query suggestion set having a first order based on the token portion. The system accesses a token pool associated with the client device and generates a second search query suggestion set having a second order based on the token portion and the token pool. The system…

Sequential selection presentation

Granted: February 23, 2021
Patent Number: 10929831
Sequential selections are presented by receiving an input on an active portion of a display of the computing device. While the input is received, a plurality of selections are sequentially displayed on the display. An indication is received that the input on the active portion of the display of the computing device has changed. In response to receiving the indication that the input has changed, the computing device stops presenting the plurality of selections and determines which…

User security authentication system in internet and method thereof

Granted: February 16, 2021
Patent Number: 10924474
Example embodiments of the present invention provides a system and method for user security authentication in an Internet environment, in which the user may generate encoded member authentication data by combining a member ID, a password, and a unique code value of a security code selection module that are selected when the user has signed up for membership to any web service provider system, thus increasing code complexity in an access stage in which the web service provider system is…

Processing high volume network data

Granted: February 16, 2021
Patent Number: 10924414
Disclosed are a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for event messaging over a network. A subscription interface receives data indicative of a subscription request for sessionized data. An allocation module allocates a sessionizer bank linked to the subscription request. A messaging interface module provisions identifiers linked to the respective processing engines of the sessionizer bank. The messaging…

Time-series data monitoring with sharded server

Granted: February 16, 2021
Patent Number: 10924398
Described are aspects of a sharded monitoring system that collects metrics data from a plurality of targets within a monitored system. In various embodiments, the monitoring system includes multiple monitoring-server instances each collecting metrics data from a respective subset of the targets, as well as a federation server that collects aggregated metrics data from the other monitoring-server instances. Mappings between monitoring targets and monitoring-server instances collecting…

Interactive augmented reality function

Granted: February 16, 2021
Patent Number: 10922907
An apparatus is provided including a processor, a memory, and a vehicle tracking portal. The vehicle tracking portal is configured to obtain vehicle identification information regarding a vehicle. Then diagnostic information regarding the vehicle can be obtained. Then, based on the vehicle identification and the diagnostic information, a recommended service for the vehicle can be determined. A user can then be alerted to the recommended service.

Search guidance

Granted: February 16, 2021
Patent Number: 10922327
A user may submit a search query to a search engine, which may process the search query and generate a set of results. Previous actions of the user or of other users may be used to identify recommended search queries. The recommended search queries may be presented to the user along with the search results for the query. The location of the recommended search queries may be fixed, set by the user, or determined on a query-by-query basis. A user interface element operable to cause the…

Consistency mitigation techniques for real-time streams

Granted: February 16, 2021
Patent Number: 10922319
Aspects of the present disclosure include a system comprising a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions and computer-implemented methods for consistency mitigation in real-time streams. Consistent with some embodiments, the method includes reading a message object from a message queue and adding the message object to an aggregating cache. The aggregating cache includes a linked list of ordered message objects. The method further includes applying an aggregating function to…

Audio control system

Granted: February 9, 2021
Patent Number: 10915293
Systems and methods for controlling an audio device include a system provider device that retrieves, through a network, audio device information for at least one audio device. The system provider device also receives an indication of a triggered alert from at least one of a plurality of devices. In various embodiments, the system provider device determines an alert type corresponding to the received indication of the triggered alert. In addition, the system provider device modifies an…