Building containers of uncategorized items

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10872364-B2
Application number	US-201715830505-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 4, 2017
Priority date	Aug 14, 2012
Publication date	Dec 22, 2020
Grant date	Dec 22, 2020

Abstract

Methods and systems to build containers of uncategorized items are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems collect information from titles of items available for purchase within a network-based publication system, generate a title for a container of uncategorized items available for purchase within the network-based publication system that is based on the collected information, and associate two or more uncategorized items available for purchase within the network-based publication system to the container based on a comparison of titles of the two or more uncategorized items and the generated title for the container of uncategorized items.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium coupled to the one or more processors, the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for diversifying search results by selectively compressing a result set, the operations comprising:
receiving a search query including one or more keywords from a computing device;
collecting information from titles of publications represented within a network-based publication system;
based on the collected information and the one or more keywords, generating a title for a container of uncategorized publications within the network-based publication system;
based on the title for the container, associating two or more uncategorized publications with the container;
based on the one or more keywords, identifying a plurality of publication information representing a plurality of categorized publications; and
generating at least a portion of a webpage containing publication information for one or more of the plurality of categorized publications and a publication page for the container, the publication page including descriptions of the two or more uncategorized publications and compressing display of publication information of the two or more uncategorized publications within the publication page of the container, the generating comprising causing the at least a portion of the webpage to be displayed within a user interface of the computing device.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the publication page includes a plurality of graphical elements, each uncategorized publication of the two or more uncategorized publications being associated with at least one graphical element of the plurality of graphical elements.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein generating the portion of the webpage further comprises:
identifying a featured uncategorized publication of the two or more uncategorized publications; and
generating at least one graphical element within the publication page representative of the featured uncategorized publication.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the operations further comprise:
generating a set of graphical elements, each graphical element of the set of graphical elements associated with an uncategorized publication of the two or more uncategorized publications unselected as the featured uncategorized publication.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the operations further comprise:
generating a set of user selectable elements within the at least one graphical element representative of the featured uncategorized publication, the set of user selectable elements configured to provide interactions with the featured uncategorized publication.

6. The system of claim 3 , wherein the operations further comprise:
generating a graphical element representative of a plurality of uncategorized publications unselected as the featured uncategorized publication, the graphical element being user selectable to display additional information for the plurality of uncategorized publications.

7. The system of claim 1 , generating the portion of the webpage further comprises:
identifying one or more uncategorized publications within the container, the one or more uncategorized publications identified based on the one or more keywords; and
generating a graphical element for the publication page of the container, the publication page compressing display of the publication information of the one or more uncategorized publications and the graphical element displaying information associated with the container.

8. A method for diversifying search results by selectively compressing a result set, comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors, a search query including one or more keywords from a computing device;
collecting, by the one or more processors, information from titles of publications represented within a network-based publication system;
based on the collected information and the one or more keywords, generating, by the one or more processors, a title for a container of uncategorized publications within the network-based publication system;
based on the title for the container, associating, by the one or more processors, two or more uncategorized publications with the container;
based on the one or more keywords, identifying, by the one or more processors, a plurality of publication information representing a plurality of categorized publications; and
generating, by the one or more processors, at least a portion of a webpage containing publication information for one or more of the plurality of categorized publications and a publication page for the container, the publication page including descriptions of the two or more uncategorized publications and compressing display of publication information of the two or more uncategorized publications within the publication page of the container, the generating comprising causing the at least a portion of the webpage to be displayed within a user interface of the computing device.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the publication page includes a plurality of graphical elements, each uncategorized publication of the two or more uncategorized publications being associated with at least one graphical element of the plurality of graphical elements.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein generating the portion of the webpage further comprises:
identifying a featured uncategorized publication of the two or more uncategorized publications; and
generating at least one graphical element within the publication page representative of the featured uncategorized publication.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
generating a set of graphical elements, each graphical element of the set of graphical elements associated with an uncategorized publication of the two or more uncategorized publications unselected as the featured uncategorized publication.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
generating a set of user selectable elements within the at least one graphical element representative of the featured uncategorized publication, the set of user selectable elements configured to provide interactions with the featured uncategorized publication.

13. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
generating a graphical element representative of a plurality of uncategorized publications unselected as the featured uncategorized publication, the graphical element being user selectable to display additional information for the plurality of uncategorized publications.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein generating the portion of the webpage further comprises:
identifying one or more uncategorized publications within the container, the one or more uncategorized publications identified based on the one or more keywords; and
generating a graphical element for the publication page of the container, the publication page compressing display of the publication information of the one or more uncategorized publications and the graphical element displaying information associated with the container.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising processor executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations for diversifying search results by selectively compressing a result set, the operations comprising:
receiving a search query including one or more keywords from a computing device;
collecting information from titles of publications represented w

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Ghatare Sanjay Pundlkrao
• Jayaraman Praveen K
• Gaikwad Sandip Namdeo
• Jain Ashit
• Beynon Joseph Anthony
• Ansari Suhail
• Williams Hugh Evan
• Bhat Niteen

Classifications

• G06Q30/0603 Primary

  Catalogue creation or management · CPC title

• G06Q30/0625

  by formulating product or service queries, e.g. using keywords or predefined options · CPC title

• G06F16/248

  Presentation of query results · CPC title

• G06F16/951

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• G06Q10/087

  Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders · CPC title