Pairable secure-access facilities
Granted: February 9, 2021
Patent Number:
10916079
Systems and methods are provided for providing access to secure-access facilities based on pairing of the secure-access facilities with a user device such as a wearable device. A pairable secure-access facility may be a public storage facility or device such as a locker that includes communications circuitry for pairing with the user device. Once paired with the user device, the locker may operate a locking mechanism to lock the locker when the user device is away from the locker and to…
System, method, and medium for propagating a plurality of listings to geographically targeted websites using a single data source
Granted: February 9, 2021
Patent Number:
10915946
Systems, methods, and machine-readable medium are described for customizing an application. A method includes receiving, by a network-based transaction facility, a selection of a first geographically targeted website. The method also includes receiving, by the network-based transaction facility, geographically targeted site preferences for the selected first geographically targeted website. Finally, the method includes receiving a request to create a first transaction listing, the first…
Systems and methods for transient local commerce search
Granted: February 9, 2021
Patent Number:
10915944
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for a transient local commerce search service is provided. A search query including a user specified location and a user specified time period is received. One or more transient merchants temporarily located within the user specified location at least during the user specified time period are identified. A user interface displaying a map and an indicator of temporary location of the…
Interactive error user interface
Granted: February 9, 2021
Patent Number:
10915908
In various example embodiments, a system and method for a proactive customer support system are provided. In some example embodiments, outgoing communications from an application server to a client device are monitored for error messages, outgoing error messages are detected, an error type for an error message is determined, an issue ticket including the error message and the error type is generated, and instructions are transmitted that cause a customer service device to display the…
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…
Proactive re-routing of vehicles to control traffic flow
Granted: February 9, 2021
Patent Number:
10914598
Aspects of the present disclosure include a navigation system and computer-implemented methods for proactively re-routing vehicles to control traffic flow. Consistent with some embodiments, the navigation system seeks to reduce traffic flow along primary navigation routes (e.g., routes with relatively short travel times) by re-routing vehicles to alternative navigation routes (e.g., routes with relatively longer travel times) using incentives. As an example, upon detecting a vehicle…
Endless search result page
Granted: February 2, 2021
Patent Number:
10909200
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 endless search result page. In example embodiments, search results from a current level of a search are presented on the search result page displayed on a client device. A scroll indication applied to the presentation of the search results from the current level is detected. Based on a direction of the…
Method and system for tracking web link usage
Granted: February 2, 2021
Patent Number:
10911554
A method and system for tracking web link usage is provided. An example system includes a request detector, a click history module, a link presentation generator, and a serving module. The request detector may be configured to receive a request for a web page comprising a web link. The click history module may be configured to access click history associated with the user account. The link presentation generator may be configured to modify the web page, utilizing the click history. The…
Traffic disruption detection using passive monitoring of vehicle occupant frustration level
Granted: February 2, 2021
Patent Number:
10909846
Aspects of the present disclosure include a navigation system and computer-implemented methods for detecting traffic disruption events based on an analysis of input component data obtained from navigation-enabled devices of vehicles near a particular location. Traffic disruption events are events such as accidents, construction road closures, police and speed traps, or road hazards that cause a decrease in the flow of traffic along a particular route and thus, added time delays for…
Probability modeling
Granted: February 2, 2021
Patent Number:
10909616
In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing dynamic bidding notifications and price guidance for buyers are presented. The system receives a selection of a present item listing and accesses historical auction data for a set of historical item listings. The system generates a dynamic bidding model for bidding on the present item and generates one or more bidding notifications based on the dynamic bidding model. The system then causes presentation of the one or more…
Consistent schema-less scalable storage system for orders
Granted: February 2, 2021
Patent Number:
10909089
In various example embodiments, a system and method for consistent schema-less and scalable database storage are described herein. A data object is generated. The data object corresponds to a column of a table from a database. The data object includes information regarding an order that is placed over a network publication system. The data object is stored in the column of the table in the database. A request to access the data object is received from a device of a first user. The data…
Dynamic content reordering
Granted: January 26, 2021
Patent Number:
10904601
In various example embodiments, a system and method for dynamically ordering content and discrete content segments are presented. A set of discrete content segments is received having a first order for distributing the set of discrete content segments during a display of a media stream. Each discrete content segment includes a set of ordering factors. Event data is received. The event data is representative of a set of events depicted by the media stream. A set of event instances is…
Replaced device handler
Granted: January 26, 2021
Patent Number:
10902507
In various example embodiments, a system and method for handling a replaced smart device are presented. A computer-implemented replaced device handler detects that a user's smart device was replaced with a new device of the same class and, in response, presents the user with an invitation to sell their old device that has been replaced. A replaced device handler may be provided in connection with an on-line trading platform.
Crowd sourcing locations for seller privacy
Granted: January 26, 2021
Patent Number:
10902506
Methods and systems for protecting seller privacy during an ecommerce transaction are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes, receiving, via an online listing configuration interface for a first session, one or more candidate pick up times and specific pick up locations for an item, determining a generalized version of the one or more specific pick up locations, displaying, via a second session, an online listing for the item, displaying, via the second session, the one or more…
Method, machine-readable medium, and system for proximity-based services for products marked by geographical indications
Granted: January 26, 2021
Patent Number:
10902496
A publication system can receive a first location of a client device determined from wireless communications between the client device and an electronic device associated with a known location (e.g., GPS, IP Access Point, cell tower, WIFI-enabled device, Bluetooth-enabled device, etc.). The system can identify items marked by geographic indications associating an item category with a geographic region from where the item category originates and that are available proximate to the…
Product-based advertising
Granted: January 26, 2021
Patent Number:
10902460
A system and method identify and provide content using identification entries. Product identification information for a product listing is received, and a matching identification entry is selected from a set of identification entries using the product identification information. The matching identification entry is assigned to the product listing for use in selecting content regarding the product listing for presentation.
Systems and methods to detect and neutralize malware infected electronic communications
Granted: January 26, 2021
Patent Number:
10902116
Systems and methods to detect and neutralize malware infected electronic communications are described. The system may receive a request for interface information from over a network from a client machine. In response to receiving the request the system may generate the interface information to include at least one input mechanism to receive user information from the user and countermeasure information for utilization on the client machine to detect whether the interface information is…
Presentation of information on multiple devices
Granted: January 26, 2021
Patent Number:
10902079
A computer-implemented method of information presentation on multiple devices is provided. The method may include presenting a first barcode on a webpage. The first barcode may be encoded with first data based on a uniform resource locator of the webpage. The method may also include generating second data based on a user interaction with the webpage and altering a configuration of the webpage based on the user interaction without leaving the webpage. The method may also include…
Graphical user interface element adjustment
Granted: January 26, 2021
Patent Number:
10901594
A computer-implemented method of graphical user interface element adjustment may include presenting a graphical user interface element that includes an adjustable element that is configured to be moved to adjust a selection of a value between a first end value and a second end value. In response to a movement of the adjustable element to adjust the selection of the value, the computer-implemented method further include obtaining a time for the movement of the adjustable element and…
Secure management of data files using a blockchain
Granted: January 19, 2021
Patent Number:
10896418
Technologies are shown for secure management of a data file secured on a data file management blockchain that involve generating a genesis block for a data file management blockchain that contains a data file to be managed and signing the genesis block to commit the genesis block to the data file management blockchain. One or more transaction data blocks are generated for the data file management blockchain that each include a modification to the data file and the blocks are signed to…
