Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090012991 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION TAGGING IN A NETWORKED SYSTEM - A computer-implemented system and method for providing information tagging in a networked system is disclosed. The apparatus in an example embodiment includes a tag engine configured to process a database of categorized product listings; to receive a user-provided tag associated with at least one of the product listings; to retain the user-provided tag; and to serve the user-provided tag to a user viewing at least one of the product listings. | 01-08-2009 |
20090164294 | GEOGRAPHIC DEMAND DISTRIBUTION AND FORECAST - A computerized method and a system for providing geographic demand distribution and forecast are provided. Example embodiments may include receiving a criterion to identify an item and searching a database for data associated with a geographic distribution of demand for the item identified by the criterion. The computerized method may also include presenting the geographic distribution of the demand for the item on a map. The map may display multiple geographic areas; each one of the multiple geographic areas may be displayed with a first and a second attribute. The first and the second attributes may be associated with the demand. | 06-25-2009 |
20100042609 | SHARING ITEM IMAGES USING A SIMILARITY SCORE - In some example embodiments, a system and method are illustrated to associate an item listing with one or more corresponding images. The system and method include receiving an item listing for an item from a user device. The system and method include generating a similarity score for a respective existing image associated with one or more existing item listings. The generating may be done by comparing the item listing with the existing item listings received from the user device. The similarity score may indicate a degree of similarity between the item listing and the existing item listings associated with the respective existing image. The system and method include proposing a specified number of existing images with the highest similarity scores to the user device. The system and method further include associating the item listing with one or more of the specified number of existing images accepted by the user device. | 02-18-2010 |
20100070342 | REGIONAL DEMAND AND SUPPLY COMPARISON - A computerized method and a system for comparing regional demand and supply are provided. Example embodiments may include receiving a criterion to identify an item and searching a database for data associated with demand and/or supply for the item identified by the criterion. The computerized method may also include presenting a geographic distribution of demand, supply, and/or net-demand for the item on a map. The map may display multiple geographic areas; each one of the multiple geographic areas may be displayed with a first and a second attribute. The first and the second attributes may be associated with the demand, supply, and/or the net-demand. | 03-18-2010 |
20100138413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONALIZED SEARCH - A system and method for personalized search. The system includes a search engine that receives search input from a user and a user identification and generates a search result based on the search input; and a profiling engine to gather profile data, generate a user profile associated with a user, and rank the search result personalized to the specific user using the user profile. | 06-03-2010 |
20100169160 | GIFT RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - Embodiments for recommending gifts to users for their gift recipients over a network are described. For example, a gift recommendation system may collect a set of historical transaction data of a plurality of transactions, and organize the set of historical transaction data based on information related to buyer gender, buyer age, item category, and transaction date of each transaction, in which the list of predetermined amount of gift categories are ordered based on an entire item purchase amount of each gift category. The gift recommendation system may retrieve gender and age information of a gift recipient, for example, via a graphical user interface, and then may automatically present to the user a list of predetermined amount of gift categories selected from the organized set of historical transaction data based on the gender and age information of the gift recipient. Once a gift category is selected from the presented list of predetermined amount of gift categories, the gift recommendation system may automatically present to the user a list of predetermined amount of gift items belonging to the selected gift category. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169341 | PREDICTIVE ALGORITHM FOR SEARCH BOX AUTO-COMPLETE - In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method to predict search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. The system architecture comprises a communications module to receive a query from a remote end-user where the query includes one or more characters contained within a first single communications packet. A query engine is coupled to the communications module. The query engine uses the one or more characters from the query to predictively match keywords contained within a data structure (e.g., a database) and forms a response from the one or more characters. The response is transmitted back to the end-user within a second single TCP communications packet. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169361 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DATA DICTIONARY - There is provided a method and system generate a data dictionary for searching data items stored in an information resource. In one embodiment, the system generates a list of synonyms for keywords entered in search queries to the system. A keyword and synonym form a token pair. Token pairs are evaluated according to a bidirectional divergence value calculated for distributions of search results, wherein the searches are based on the token pairs. Token pairs are then selected based on the divergence value. The selected token pairs are compiled into a data dictionary. In one embodiment, the data dictionary is a synonym dictionary used for user search query expansion to find matching items. | 07-01-2010 |
20100250524 | RANKING ALGORITHM FOR SEARCH BOX AUTO-COMPLETE - In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method for prioritizing search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. The system comprises a communications module to receive a search query from an end-user. The search query includes one or more characters contained within a single TCP packet. A query engine coupled to the communications module matched the one or more characters from the search query against a plurality of selected keywords contained within a database against the search query. Each keyword is then ranked within the plurality of selected keywords thus forming a subset of selected keywords. A response including the subset of selected keywords is returned to the end-user. | 09-30-2010 |
20110004509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING SALES OF ITEM LISTINGS - A method and a system are disclosed for predicting sales of item listings on a network-based system. For example, historical transaction data generated by the network-based system is accessed to create a prediction model. A feature predictive of an item being sold through the network-based system is selected. A training set is created by extracting the predictive feature from the historical transaction data. The prediction model is trained based on the training data set to predict the probability of an item listing being sold through the network-based system. The prediction model is used to rank search results, and the search results can be presented through the network-based system. | 01-06-2011 |
20110010324 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING CONTEXTUAL RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and a system for making contextual recommendations to users on a network-based system. For example, a first and second related category are selected and a relationship score is calculated representing an aspect of the relationship between the first and second related categories. A relationship type is selected to represent the relationship between the first and second categories using the relationship score. The relationship type is one of either a complement or a substitute. A complement relationship indicates a complementary relationship between the first and second related categories. While a substitute relationship indicates a substitutionary relationship between the first and second categories. The relationship type is stored associated with the first and second related categories. Using the selected relationship type, a recommendation is provided to a user on the network-based system. | 01-13-2011 |
20110016015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING BIDDING PRICE - Potential bidding errors may be detected using a computer-implemented method comprising receiving a proposed bid for an auction item, the auction item having a current bid and a minimum bid increment, the proposed bid being greater than the sum of the current bid and the minimum bid increment. The method then determines a threshold value, the threshold value being greater than the sum of the current bid and a minimum bid increment. When the proposed bid is greater than the threshold value, then the method validates the proposed bid using the current bid and the proposed bid to provide a validation result. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 01-20-2011 |
20110055195 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES FOR KEYWORD EXTRACTION AND CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISEMENT GENERATION - A computer-implemented system and method for keyword extraction and contextual advertisement generation are disclosed. The system in an example embodiment includes a keyword extraction service to receive from a consumer application a request for activation of a keyword extraction service via an application programming interface, the request including an identity of a content source, the request further including an identification of a particular extraction process to be used by the keyword extraction service on the identified content source; determine if the keyword extraction service has already processed the identified content source and retained extracted keywords in a data store; extract keywords from the identified content source using the particular extraction process identified in the request; and make the extracted keywords accessible to the consumer application. | 03-03-2011 |
20110071917 | SUGGESTED ITEM CATEGORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to offer items for sale, wherein at least some of the items for sale have been matched to item categories and/or item attributes. The categories and attributes may be derived from token weights determined in accordance with a ratio of a total number of the items for sale and the number of items for sale that are associated with a common token. Additional activities may include locating some of the items for sale associated with the common token by executing a navigation application. Additional apparatus, methods, and systems are disclosed. | 03-24-2011 |
20110276432 | FLEXIBLE ASSET AND SEARCH RECOMMENDATION ENGINES - The subject mater herein relates to Internet-based commerce and, more particularly, to a flexible asset and search recommendation engines. Various embodiments herein provide systems, methods, and software to identify relationships between assets and provide asset recommendations as a function of the identified relationships. in some embodiments, relationships between assets are identified by gathering statistics including a probability of an action in view of one or more other actions an entity may have performed. | 11-10-2011 |
20110307411 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING RESULTS BASED ON DWELL TIME - A method and a system to rank search results based on dwell time is provided. The system comprises a search module to identify a plurality of listings stored in a listing database as search results. A dwell time module determines a respective dwell time associated with each of the plurality of listings. The dwell time is based on an elapsed amount of time one or more buyers view a view item page associated with the listing. A ranking module ranks the listings composing the identified plurality of listings based at least in part on the respective dwell time associated with each of the plurality of listings. | 12-15-2011 |
20120191688 | EXPANSION OF DATABASE SEARCH QUERIES - Systems and methods are provided for expanding database search queries. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a token that is usable in search queries for data in a database, the database including items of data stored in a tree hierarchy of categories. The method further comprises determining a synonym candidate for the token, and identifying the synonym candidate as a synonym for the token in response to a determination that the token and the synonym candidate are in a same category for a level of the tree hierarchy. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191717 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DATA DICTIONARY - There is provided an ecommerce method and system to generate a data dictionary for searching data items stored in a database. In one embodiment, the system comprises a candidate list generator module to generate a list of keywords from search query information and generate a set of token pairs including a keyword from the list of keywords and a token, the token being a synonym of the keyword. Demand information retrieved from query logs maintained for user-provided query entries is used to apply candidate selection rules to token pairs. The system also comprises a validation module and a data dictionary module to receive validated token pairs as entries in a vocabulary. | 07-26-2012 |
20120254151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KEYWORD EXTRACTION - A computer-implemented system and method for keyword extraction are disclosed. The system in an example embodiment includes a keyword extraction component to extract relevant keywords from content of a web page, to identify items relevant to the extracted keywords, and to rank the relevant items. | 10-04-2012 |
20130086034 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROCESS A DATA SEARCH REQUEST - Example systems and methods of processing a data search request are presented. In one example, a data search request including a plurality of constraints is received. Each of the plurality of constraints is of one of a plurality of constraint types. At least one of the plurality of constraints of a first constraint type is expanded to one or more constraints of at least one other constraint type. A plurality of search definitions is formulated utilizing the plurality of constraints. Each of the plurality of search definitions includes a unique constraint set excluding at least one of the plurality of constraints. A plurality of searches is performed using the plurality of search definitions to generate a plurality of search results. Data item counts corresponding to the search definitions are calculated. The data item counts and the corresponding search definitions are communicated to a client machine. | 04-04-2013 |
20130179385 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING CONTEXTUAL RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and a system for making contextual recommendations to users on a network-based system. For example, a first and second related category are selected and a relationship score is calculated representing an aspect of the relationship between the first and second related categories. A relationship type is selected to represent the relationship between the first and second categories using the relationship score. The relationship type is one of either a complement or a substitute. A complement relationship indicates a complementary relationship between the first and second related categories. While a substitute relationship indicates a substitutionary relationship between the first and second categories. The relationship type is stored associated with the first and second related categories. Using the selected relationship type, a recommendation is provided to a user on the network-based system. | 07-11-2013 |
20130282528 | SUGGESTED ITEM CATEGORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method and a system that associate items offered by sellers and others with selected categories within a network-based system are provided. The method and system may operate to include receiving a request including an item identification having at least one token, parsing the item identification to identify the token, and assigning a token weight to the token based on a total number of items offered at a site and a number of items offered at the site and associated with the token. | 10-24-2013 |
20140101183 | ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION SYSTEM - A system and method for modifying publication data in a publication system are described. An example embodiment includes receiving proposed publication data and accessing a success measurement associated with past publications within a publication system. The success measurement may indicate a measurement of success associated with the past publications. An example system and method may generate modification data to be used to modify the proposed publication data. The modification data may be based on the success measurement and proposed publication data. | 04-10-2014 |
20140164387 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DATA DICTIONARY - Systems and methods for generating data dictionaries are disclosed. In one example, a system comprises a candidate list generator module to generate a list of keywords from search query information, a validation module to validate candidate token pairs based on a divergence value wherein candidate token pairs having divergence values exceeding a divergence threshold are valid token pairs, and a data dictionary module to receive the validated token pairs as entries in a vocabulary, and provide the validated token pairs in response to a search query containing a keyword corresponding to at least one entry in the vocabulary. | 06-12-2014 |
20140214817 | RANKING ALGORITHM FOR SEARCH OUERIES - In various embodiments, a method of prioritizing search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. The method includes selecting a plurality of equivalent keywords responsive to a search query from an end-user, determining a rank of each of the plurality of equivalent keywords, selecting a plurality of most highly ranked keywords from the plurality of equivalent keywords, and preparing a response including the plurality of most highly ranked keywords. | 07-31-2014 |
20140236879 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and a system for making contextual recommendations to users on a network-based system. For example, activity associated with a user interacting with a network-based system is tracked. Based, at least in part, on the tracked user activity on the network-based system, a recommendation relationship type is selected. The recommendation relationship type can be either a substitute relationship type or a complement relationship type. A recommended object can be selected based at least in part on the recommendation relationship type and a first object accessed by the user interacting with the network-based system. A recommendation can be generated for the recommended object for presentation to the user interacting with the network-based system. | 08-21-2014 |