Native selling platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11244408-B2
Application number	US-201816113517-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2018
Priority date	Dec 31, 2014
Publication date	Feb 8, 2022
Grant date	Feb 8, 2022

Abstract

Example embodiments of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing a native selling platform. In example embodiments, an operating system of a device is configured to share information with other devices and services using native functionalities of the operating system. An indication to share an image of an item is received. A sharing user interface is presented that includes a plurality of services with which the image of the item is sharable. A selection of a publication system from the plurality of services is received. In response, a listing user interface is presented that includes fields for input of parameters used to generate a listing for the item in the image. Parameters and an indication to list the item are received and are shared with the publication system to cause the publication system to create the listing for the item.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method implemented by a publication system, the method comprising:
receiving an image of an item and parameters used to generate a listing for the item from a networking component of a device operating system, the image and the parameters being received responsive to an indication to list the item via a listing user interface presented by a user interface component of the device operating system, the listing user interface including an option to designate a service associated with the publication system for the listing of the item;
generating the listing for the item based on the image and the parameters and surfacing the listing via the service;
generating a notification that pertains to the listing and includes at least one selectable option to perform an action via the service and causing the user interface component to present the notification while a device implementing the device operating system is in a locked mode; and
initiating performance of the action via the service responsive to an indication of input selecting the at least one selectable option, without transitioning the device from the locked mode and without activating an application executed by the device.

2. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the service is a social network to which data corresponding to the listing is postable.

3. The method as described in claim 2 , wherein surfacing the listing includes posting the data corresponding to the listing with the social network.

4. The method as described in claim 1 , further comprising determining hashtags that correspond to the listing for presentation via the listing user interface.

5. The method as described in claim 4 , further comprising:
receiving a selection of at least one of the hashtags; and
including the at least one of the hashtags in the listing.

6. The method as described in claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving at least one hashtag entered by user input via the listing user interface; and
including the at least one hashtag in the listing.

7. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the notification comprises at least one of a question about the listing or a sale notification for the item.

8. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement a publication system by performing operations comprising:
receiving an image of an item and parameters used to generate a listing for the item, the image and the parameters being received responsive to an indication to list the item via a listing user interface presented by a user interface component of a device operating system, the listing user interface including an option to designate a service associated with the publication system for the listing;
generating the listing for the item based on the image and the parameters and surfacing the listing via the service;
generating a notification that pertains to the listing and includes at least one selectable option to perform an action via the service and causing the user interface component of the device operating system to present the notification while a device implementing the device operating system is in a locked mode; and
initiating performance of the action via the service responsive to an indication of input selecting the at least one selectable option, without transitioning the device from the locked mode and without activating an application executed by the device.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as described in claim 8 , the operations further comprising determining hashtags that correspond to the listing for presentation via the listing user interface.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as described in claim 9 , the operations further comprising:
receiving a selection of at least one of the hashtags; and
including the at least one of the hashtags in the listing.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as described in claim 8 , the operations further comprising:
receiving at least one hashtag entered by user input via the listing user interface; and
including the at least one hashtag in the listing.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as described in claim 8 , wherein the notification includes a question about the listing and the action comprises responding to the question.

13. A publication system comprising:
at least one processor; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the publication system to perform operations comprising:
receiving an image of an item and parameters used to generate a listing for the item, the image and the parameters being received responsive to an indication to list the item via a listing user interface presented by a user interface component of a device operating system, the listing user interface including an option to designate a service associated with the publication system for the listing;
generating the listing for the item based on the image and the parameters and surfacing the listing via the service;
generating a notification that pertains to the listing and includes at least one selectable option to perform an action via the service and causing the user interface component of the device operating system to present the notification while a device implementing the device operating system is in a locked mode; and
initiating performance of the action via the service responsive to an indication of input selecting the at least one selectable option, without transitioning the device from the locked mode and without activating an application executed by the device separate from the device operating system.

14. The publication system as described in claim 13 , wherein the service is a social network to which data corresponding to the listing is postable.

15. The publication system as described in claim 14 , wherein the surfacing includes posting the data corresponding to the listing with the social network.

16. The publication system as described in claim 13 , wherein the operations further comprise determining hashtags that correspond to the listing for presentation via the listing user interface.

17. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the image and the parameters are received responsive to the indication to list the item via the listing user interface without activating or running a separate application for selling items via the publication system.

18. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the listing user interface is a native user interface to the device operating system based on an embedding of functions for selling items directly into the device operating system.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as described in claim 8 , wherein the notification includes an indication of a sale of the item and the action comprises delivery of the item.

20. The publication system as described in claim 13 , wherein the notification includes at least one of a question about the listing or an indication of a sale of the item and the at least one selectable option includes one or more of an option to respond to the question or an option to initiate delivery of the item.

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Lenahan Michael George
• Mitchell Ben
• Pittman R J
• Lippman Dave

Classifications

• G06Q10/40 Primary

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06Q30/0613

  using intermediate agents · CPC title

• G06Q30/0619 Primary

  Neutral agent · CPC title

• G06Q30/0641

  utilising user interfaces specially adapted for shopping · CPC title

• G06Q50/01 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic