Matrix view of items
Granted: December 10, 2019
Patent Number:
10503785
Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to present a plurality of searched items by a plurality of points in a matrix view, which includes a first axis and a second axis, respectively representing a price attribute and one of other attributes of the plurality of items. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
Prediction-based caching system
Granted: December 3, 2019
Patent Number:
10498852
Example embodiments provide a prediction-based caching system. The caching system receives an application program interface (API) request from a component of the client device. The request indicates a parameter for current requested information. The caching system causes a search of both a cache and a source for the current requested information based on the parameter. The caching system causes retrieval of the current requested information from one of the cache or the source. The…
Methods and systems to browse data items
Granted: December 3, 2019
Patent Number:
10497051
Methods and Systems to browse data items. There is provided a method and system to enable a buyer to browse listings that are listed, by sellers on a network-based marketplace and stored in a data resource. There is further provided a method to cancel characteristics used to identify listings that are listed by sellers on a network-based marketplace.
Image quality assessment to merchandise an item
Granted: December 3, 2019
Patent Number:
10497032
Image-based features may be significantly correlated with click-through rates of images that depict a product, which may provide a more formal basis for the informal notion that good quality images will result in better click-through rates, as compared to poor quality images. Accordingly, an image assessment machine is configured to analyze image-based features to improve click-through rates for shopping search applications (e.g., a product search engine). Moreover, the image assessment…
Collaborative data based device maintenance
Granted: December 3, 2019
Patent Number:
10496246
Systems and methods for collaborative data based device maintenance are provided. In example embodiments, an indication of a malfunction of a user product of a user is received. An item listing is identified based, in part, on user data of another user. An order parameter for an order corresponding to the item listing is determined based on user data of the user and the other user.
Methods, systems and apparatus for power monitoring
Granted: December 3, 2019
Patent Number:
10495673
Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring an electrically powered element are described. One or more power usage measurements for one or more elements may be obtained and analyzed to determine a behavior of a user of one or more of the elements. An action and/or a recommendation based on the analysis of one or more of the power usage measurements is determined.
Large-scale recommendations for a dynamic inventory
Granted: November 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10489842
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing recommendations are presented. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include accessing a selection of queries executed on a database of items. The selection of queries may be used to retrieve a plurality of items from the database. The plurality of items may be grouped into one of multiple clusters based on similarities between items. The method…
Super geo-fences and virtual fences to improve efficiency of geo-fences
Granted: November 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10492025
A system and method for using super geo-fences to improve efficiency of geo-fences is disclosed. A server system determines a geo-fence density based on a number of geo-fences in an area around a client system. In response to determining the geo-fence density is greater than a predetermined density value, the server system selects a number of geo-fences that is greater than a fixed number of geo-fences that the client system is capable of handling. The server system groups the selected…
Methods and systems for detecting an electronic intrusion
Granted: November 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10491612
Systems and methods for detecting an electronic intrusion are described. The system receives an indication of a user activity for a user account for a service provided by a server. The system identifies whether to communicate a first request to respond to the user activity and communicates the first request, over a network. The system receives a first response responsive to communicating the first request, the first response including instructions to permit access to the user account at…
Adaptive risk-based verification and authentication platform
Granted: November 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10489853
In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method to perform an adaptive risk-based assessment of a user is disclosed. A method includes receiving a request from a user to perform an action at an electronic marketplace, retrieving a plurality of risk assessment factors associated with the action and the user, performing a risk assessment process on the risk assessment factors to identify a risk mitigation process, requesting that the user perform the identified risk…
System and method to create listings using image and voice recognition
Granted: November 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10489835
In various example embodiments, a system and method to provide services associated with an image is disclosed. The method includes receiving image data of an item of interest from a client device. The image data is used to identify a similar item from an image catalog based on the image data of the item. Attribute information associated with the similar item is retrieved and used to pre-populate a template. The pre-populated template is sent to the client device, and modified data from…
Item recommendations using image feature data
Granted: November 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10489692
An apparatus and method to facilitate providing recommendations are disclosed herein. A networked system receives a query image, and performs image processing to extract a color histogram of an item depicted in the query image. The networked system identifies a dominant color of the item, whereby the dominant color is a color that is present on a most spatial area of the item relative to any other color of the item. The color histogram of the item is compared with a color histogram of an…
Presentation of information on multiple devices
Granted: November 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10489475
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…
Dynamic modifications of results for search interfaces
Granted: November 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10489407
The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems, and methods for enhancing search results based on recent user interactions. As described herein, embodiments may infer various refinements for search queries; these refinements are based, at least in part, on the user's recent interactions with the search platform (e.g., within a current session). In other words, as the user is interacting with the search platform, one or more refinements may be inferred to help make the search…
Computer system authentication using security indicator
Granted: November 19, 2019
Patent Number:
10484356
A method to authenticate an application on a first computer system at a second computer system is disclosed. The first computer system receives an authentication bitmap from a second computer system identifying locations in an application. The first computer system extracts portions of the application based on the identified locations in the bitmap. A hashing algorithm is applied by the first computer system to the extracted portions producing a resultant hash. The resultant hash is…
Systems and methods for providing information from multiple sources
Granted: November 19, 2019
Patent Number:
10482469
A method and a system for providing information about a posting from multiple sources are provided. For example, the method may comprise storing a posting that was submitted by a first user in an online publication system. Then, one or more stored inquiries associated with the posting may be retrieved. Finally, a response is selectively retrieved from a response source. The retrieved response may correspond to the stored inquiry and the posting. The response source is at least one of the…
System and method for providing product delivery service in electronic transaction using smartphone
Granted: November 19, 2019
Patent Number:
10482412
Provided are a system and method for providing a product delivery service in an electronic transaction using a smartphone in which delivery product discharging devices are suitably disposed in specific places of main areas such as a subway station or a bus stop and a purchaser may conveniently pick up an ordered delivery product from a delivery product discharging device previously designated by the purchaser using a smartphone of the purchaser.
Systems and methods to build and utilize a search infrastructure
Granted: November 19, 2019
Patent Number:
10482113
Methods and systems to build and utilize a search infrastructure are described. The system generates index information components in real-time based on a database that is time-stamped. The system updates index information at a plurality of query node servers based on the index information components. A query engine receives a search query from a client machine and identifies search results based on the query and the index information. The system communicates the search results, over the…
Methods and systems to communicate information
Granted: November 12, 2019
Patent Number:
10474762
Systems and methods to communicate information are described. The system receives a query and retrieves a set of data items from a database based on the query. The system generates a distribution based on a count of data items from the set of data items that were retrieved for each domain in a set of domains and a count of requests to view data items from another set of data items for each domain in the set of domains. The system identifies whether the distribution exhibits a type of a…
Method system and medium for generating virtual contexts from three dimensional models
Granted: November 12, 2019
Patent Number:
10475113
Techniques for generated and presenting images of items within user selected context images are presented herein. In an example embodiment, an access module can be configured to receive a first environment model and a first wearable item model. A simulation module coupled to the access module may process the environment model to identify placement volumes within the environment model and to place a clothed body model within the placement volume to generate a context model. A rendering…
