Augmented reality digital content search and sizing techniques
Granted: November 12, 2019
Patent Number:
10475200
These techniques described herein overcome the limitations of conventional techniques by bridging a gap between user interaction with digital content using a computing device and a user's physical environment through use of augmented reality content. In one example, user interaction with augmented reality digital content as part of a live stream of digital images of a user's environment is used to specify a size of an area that is used to filter search results to find a “best fit”.…
Method to identify a suggested location for storing a data entry in a database
Granted: November 12, 2019
Patent Number:
10475116
A method and system to identify a suggested location for storing a data entry in a database including a plurality of divisions is provided. The method includes receiving entry criteria associated with the data entry, and searching the database using the entry criteria to locate similar stored data entries. At least one division for data entries is identified wherein the stored data entries are located. The at least one division is then presented to a user as the suggested location. The…
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…
Method, medium, and system for keyword bidding in a market cooperative
Granted: November 12, 2019
Patent Number:
10475082
A computer-implemented method and system for keyword bidding in a market cooperative are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes receiving a keyword bid from a first party; determining a value to a host associated with the keyword bid; augmenting the keyword bid by an amount corresponding to the value to the host; and sending the augmented keyword bid to a second party.
Dynamic creation of networks
Granted: November 5, 2019
Patent Number:
10467707
Techniques for creating a user network based on user interest in a product are described. For example, a first search query is received from a first client device. The first client device is associated with a first user. A second search query is received from a second client device. The second client device is associated with a second user. The first search query is matched to a product. The second search query is matched to the product. A user network corresponding to the product is…
Automatic shopping cart checkout
Granted: November 5, 2019
Patent Number:
10467683
An apparatus and method for purchasing contents of a virtual shopping cart are disclosed. Automatic checkout settings are received from a user, the automatic checkout settings include an automatic checkout time and an item substitution behavior setting. The user adds an item to the virtual shopping cart associated with the user. In response to the item substitution behavior authorizing substitution of items in the virtual shopping cart, availability of a substitute item that qualifies as…
Correction of user input
Granted: November 5, 2019
Patent Number:
10467338
Systems and methods for receiving a first string from a user in a user session, tracking a first response to the first string from the user in the user session, receiving, after receiving the first string, a second string from the user in the user session, the second string having a character operator difference that is below a threshold number from the first string, tracking a second response to the second string from the user in the user session, associating the first string with the…
Generating an electronic catalog for online computer users
Granted: October 29, 2019
Patent Number:
10460365
A system and method for generating an electronic catalog for online computer users is disclosed. The system and method in an example embodiment includes providing access to a data store of images; enabling selection of a plurality of images from at least some of the images provided in the data store; enabling association of each the plurality of selected images with a respective page in a computer-generated electronic catalog; recording an identifier of each of the respective…
Interactive user interface for profile management
Granted: October 29, 2019
Patent Number:
10462298
Techniques for managing electronic user profiles are presented herein. An example method includes accessing, from a data structure, a user profile. The user profile can include a profile identifier and a plurality of data fields. The method also includes displaying, on a display device, an interactive user interface. The user interface can include a plurality of user interface action elements. Each of the user interface action elements can be associated with a data field in the data…
Pairable secure-access facilities
Granted: October 29, 2019
Patent Number:
10460543
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…
Systems and methods for customer valuation and merchant bidding
Granted: October 29, 2019
Patent Number:
10460354
A mediator system, which serves as a conduit between a customer and merchants, includes customer profile data. The mediator system analyzes the customer profile data, and assigns an indication to a customer represented by the customer profile data. The mediator system then provides the indication to the merchants, and then receives bids from the merchants. The bids are for establishing a connection between the merchants and the customer. The mediator system provides to a portion of the…
System and method for mining category aspect information
Granted: October 29, 2019
Patent Number:
10459919
In various example embodiments, systems and methods for providing category aspect information by mining historical data is provided. In example embodiments, a table comprising joined data is accessed. The table includes historical data that comprises user behavior data based on actions performed with past queries by users, data describing publication, and a determined category for each publication. Demand scores based on the joined data are determined. The determined demand scores are…
Mobile optimized shopping comparison
Granted: October 29, 2019
Patent Number:
10459608
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for generating a navigable user interface for a mobile shopping comparison application. In some embodiments, the method may include determining that a query request has indications of item specific attributes for comparison, identifying the most relevant item attributes corresponding to the item specific comparison, and presenting the attributes in conjunction with their…
Systems, apparatus, and methods for configuring device data streams
Granted: October 22, 2019
Patent Number:
10455021
Configuring device data streams (DDSs) of a mobile device is described herein. DDSs can include sensor data (captured from one or more sensors of the mobile device) and user-specific data (including application data from applications executed via the mobile device, as well as non-application data). DDS configuration parameters define modifications for the user-specific data and/or the sensor data of the DDS; these modifications can include removing or altering the user-specific data…
Auction price guidance
Granted: October 22, 2019
Patent Number:
10453119
In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing price guidance for sellers and buyers are presented. The system receives a present item listing and accesses a set of historical item listings. The system generates a price guidance model for the present item listing and generates a set of prices for the present item based on the price guidance model. The system then causes presentation of the set of prices on a client device.
Data mesh visualization
Granted: October 22, 2019
Patent Number:
10453111
In various example embodiments, a system and method for data mesh visualization are presented. Attribute data associated with a user may be received from a plurality of attribute sources. User characteristics may be inferred based on an analysis of at least a portion of the attribute data. A visualization may be generated based, at least in part, on the user characteristics. The visualization may be representative of the attribute data. The visualization may be caused to be presented to…
Text translation using contextual information related to text objects in translated language
Granted: October 22, 2019
Patent Number:
10453108
In an example embodiment, input is received from a first user of a computer system. A text object relating to a first item from the input is created, and translated from a first language to a second language. A plurality of text objects, in the second language, having text similar to the translated text object, are located in a database, each text object comprising textual information pertaining to the first item. The plurality of text objects having text similar to the translated text…
Identification of content in an electronic document
Granted: October 22, 2019
Patent Number:
10452737
In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an electronic document that comprises a plurality of sections. The method includes marking the plurality of sections as a content section or a non-content section using a visual attribute of the sections that includes at least one of a width of the section, a density of the plurality of hyperlinks in the section, a size of a font of text in the section and whether a title of the electronic document overlaps with text in the section. The…
Crowd assisted query system
Granted: October 22, 2019
Patent Number:
10452688
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a network-based crowd assisted query system that includes a client device in communication with an application server executing the crowd assisted query system over a network. For example, the crowd assisted query system may be or include a group of one or more server machines. Users of the crowd assisted query system are presented with a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to receive queries that include data objects, wherein the data…
Anomaly detection for non-stationary data
Granted: October 15, 2019
Patent Number:
10445644
A method of detecting anomalies in a time series is disclosed. A training time series corresponding to a process is extracted from an initial time series corresponding to the process, the training time series including a subset of the initial time series. Outlier data points in the training time series are modified based on predetermined acceptability criteria. A plurality of prediction methods are trained using the training time series. An actual data point corresponding to the initial…
