System to present additional item information
Granted: April 14, 2020
Patent Number:
10620776
A computer-implemented system and method for displaying additional information corresponding to an item represented by a visual indicator in response to a mouseover event is disclosed. Various embodiments receive a mouseover event corresponding to a visual indicator displayed on a display screen and generate additional information corresponding to an item represented by the visual indicator in response to the mouseover event, the additional information being obtained from various…
Personal augmented reality
Granted: April 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10614602
Image data comprising an image of an environment is received from a mobile video device located at the environment. An image of a marker is extracted from the received image for use in identifying the location of the mobile video device. A location associated with the marker is extracted from a database and the extracted location is sent as the location of the mobile video device. Also received is a request for information about an item in the environment that is of interest to a user of…
Pre-authenticated online ordering system
Granted: April 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10614508
A computerized method and system for presenting a user interface is provided. A set of user authentication credentials are received from a first user device, the set of user authentication credentials sufficient to uniquely identify a user of the user device as being registered with a network-based publication system. A first user interface is generated, the first user interface providing a first set of available functions. A unique address associated with a second user interface…
System and method to facilitate translation of communications between entities over a network
Granted: March 31, 2020
Patent Number:
10606960
A system and method to facilitate translation of communications between entities over a network are provided. The system receives a first language construct transmitted by a first entity that is directed to a second entity. The system identifies a construct identifier corresponding to the first language construct and determines a language preference of the second entity. A second language construct is retrieved by the system by locating an entry in a translated construct table that…
Methods, apparatus and system for mobile piggybacking
Granted: March 31, 2020
Patent Number:
10609531
Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request for assistance from the user is detected and a request is issued to a remote device for establishment of a remote assistance session. Information describing a state of the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device and one or more commands may be received from the remote device. The commands may be executed on the mobile device.
Dynamically updated listing user interface
Granted: March 31, 2020
Patent Number:
10607281
In an example embodiment, an item characteristic is received, the item characteristic pertaining to an item being listed for sale, by a seller, via an ecommerce service. Then, a plurality of past transactions of items having the item characteristic are analyzed. Based on this analysis, a first set of one or more optimal listing configuration parameters are identified in accordance with a first set of listing criteria. Then, the first set of one or more identified optimal listing…
Multi-dimensional commerce platform
Granted: March 31, 2020
Patent Number:
10607276
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a multi-dimensional commerce platform that may be utilized for the communication of data. Aspects of the multi-dimensional commerce platform may include various functional components to facilitate a system to receive inventory data at a first server associated with the multi-dimensional commerce platform, provide a second server associated with a third-party (e.g., a third party seller/distributor) access to the inventory data, alter or modify…
Supplementing an image gallery with status indicators
Granted: March 31, 2020
Patent Number:
10607272
In various example embodiments, a system and method to provide status indictors on an image galley is disclosed. At least one item to be displayed in an image gallery on a client device is identified. Once identified, status information for the item is obtained. Subsequently, gallery rendering and display instructions are generated and transmitted to the client device. The rendering and display instructions include the status information and enables generation of status indicators from…
Method and system for SMS intermediation
Granted: March 31, 2020
Patent Number:
10607266
A system for receiving, at a server with one or more processors, a request for a respective product page from a first client system. The system then sends the respective product page to the first client system for display, wherein the respective product page includes a send SMS message link. The system receives, from the first client system, a first SMS message, wherein the first SMS message is generated by user selection of the send SMS message link. The system transmits the first SMS…
Machine learning system for computing asset access
Granted: March 31, 2020
Patent Number:
10606990
In various example embodiments, a method for controlling computing asset access using machine learning is presented. In an example embodiment, access data for each user of a plurality of users are accessed, wherein the access data for a user indicate an access history by that user to one or more available assets. Using a machine learning algorithm, the access data of each user are analyzed to generate a characteristic associated with the access data of each user. An indication of a…
Systems and methods for saving and presenting a state of a communication session
Granted: March 31, 2020
Patent Number:
10606905
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for saving and presenting a state of a communication session are presented. The communication session may be established between a client device and an application server of a content publisher, and may include the presentation of content on the client device. In some embodiments, the method may include receiving user input to save a state of the communication session,…
Search index trimming
Granted: March 31, 2020
Patent Number:
10606873
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to index trimming to improve search results of a large corpus. Some embodiments, prior to receiving, from a user device, a search query of one or more keywords searching for a relevant set of publications in a publication corpus, trim candidate publications from a plurality of candidate publications to generate a trimmed plurality of candidate publications.
Systems and methods for presenting a state of a communication session
Granted: March 24, 2020
Patent Number:
10601929
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for automatically saving and presenting a state of a communication session are presented. The communication session may be established between a client device of a user and an application server of a content publisher. Session data representative of a first state of the communication session may be stored in response to user input. The method may further include…
Associating an online publication with a print publication
Granted: March 24, 2020
Patent Number:
10601899
This document discusses, among other things, a system and methods for associating an online publication with a print publication. Example embodiments may include receiving a request from a publisher that may identify first data that is to be published over a network, in an online publication. In response to the request, example embodiments may include fetching the first data and generating further data based on the first data. The further data may include an address to locate the online…
Methods and systems for storefront generation
Granted: March 24, 2020
Patent Number:
10600113
An embodiment includes a system comprising an initialization module and a platform module. The initialization module provides an initialization interface to a merchant that receives an indication from the merchant to initialize creation of a storefront application. The platform module receives a selection of mobile phone device operating systems; accesses stored templates from a template database, and maps elements in the stored templates to portions of source code to generate sets of…
Systems and methods for data mining and automated generation of search query rewrites
Granted: March 24, 2020
Patent Number:
10599733
Various embodiments include systems and methods for data mining of search engine and network operations to automatically identify query events. Data aggregated from such query events and stored as query history data may be processed to identify query ranking mismatches. These identified mismatches may be used with the query history data and target settings to automatically generate query rewrite data. In certain embodiments, this query rewrite data may be used to generate query rewrite…
Semantic category classification
Granted: March 24, 2020
Patent Number:
10599701
In accordance with an example embodiment, large scale category classification based on sequence semantic embedding and parallel learning is described. In one example, one or more closest matches are identified by comparison between (i) a publication semantic vector that corresponds to at least part of the publication, the publication semantic vector based on a first machine-learned model that projects the at least part of the publication into a semantic vector space, and (ii) a plurality…
Methods and systems to refine search results
Granted: March 24, 2020
Patent Number:
10599665
Methods and systems are provided to refine search information. The methods and systems are for receiving a request from a mobile device, the request including an indication of a swiping motion that is applied across a touch-sensitive screen on the mobile device, the touch sensitive screen displaying search results including a first plurality of data items. The methods and systems are for retrieving a first refinement and a first value from a database entry. The methods and systems are…
Orthogonal experimentation in a computing environment
Granted: March 24, 2020
Patent Number:
10599557
Various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software to receive input configuring tests within a computing environment to expose users to standard application or website experiences or test experiences. In some embodiments, multiple tests may be configured to run orthogonally within user experiences without affecting the results of one another. Some such embodiments preserve the ability to execute certain tests in a non-orthogonal manner while other tests are…
Omnichannel retailing
Granted: March 17, 2020
Patent Number:
10592968
Example embodiments are directed to systems and method to facilitate omnichannel retailing. A networked system determines a location of the user device within a store and accesses a map of the store. An item from a list of one or more items is identified, whereby the item has a plurality of locations within the store. A first location of the item from the plurality of locations is selected. The networked system causes display, on a user interface on the user device, of the location of…
