Presenting information for containers in search results

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9552601-B2
Application number	US-201313967162-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 14, 2013
Priority date	Aug 14, 2012
Publication date	Jan 24, 2017
Grant date	Jan 24, 2017

Abstract

Methods and systems to build containers of uncategorized items are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems access a search query received by a network-based publication system, identify a container of uncategorized items having a title that satisfies the search query, and return a result for the search query that is associated with the identified container.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a processor and executable instructions accessible on a computer-readable medium that, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
generating one or more containers, each container being associated with a subset of a dynamically changing inventory of items of a network-based publication system and including a cluster of one or more items of the subset of the dynamically changing inventory of items;
accessing a search query received by the network-based publication system;
determining that a container of the one or more containers is associated with a subset of the dynamically changing inventory that includes one or more uncategorized items, the container having a title that satisfies the search query;
determining a match score for each of the one or more uncategorized items associated with the container;
adjusting the match score for each of the one or more uncategorized items based on a comparison of each of the uncategorized items to the search query; and
generating a container page displaying item information associated with the container, including information associated with an uncategorized item having a best adjusted match score.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising returning a result for the search query that is associated with the container.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the generated container page presents an indicator that the uncategorized item is associated with the container.

4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
randomly selecting an uncategorized item associated with the container; and
returning a result of a container page for the randomly selected uncategorized item.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the returning of the result of the container page is based on a selection of an uncategorized item associated with the container that has not been published by the network-based publication system within a certain time period.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the returning of the result of the container page is based on a selection of an uncategorized item associated with the container that has been associated with the container for a predetermined time period.

7. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
generating one or more containers, each container being associated with a subset of a dynamically changing inventory of items of a network-based publication system and including a cluster of one or more items of the subset of the dynamically changing inventory of items;
accessing a search query received by the network-based publication system;
determining that a container of the one or more containers is associated with a subset of the dynamically changing inventory that includes one or more uncategorized items, the container having a title that satisfies the search query;
determining a match score for each of the one or more uncategorized items associated with the container;
adjusting the match score for each of the one or more uncategorized items based on a comparison of each of the uncategorized items to the search query; and
generating a container page displaying item information associated with the determined container, including information associated with an uncategorized item having a best adjusted match score.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , further comprising returning a result for the search query that is associated with the container.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the generated container page presents an indicator that the uncategorized item is associated with the container.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , further comprising:
randomly selecting an uncategorized item associated with the container; and
returning a result of a container page for the randomly selected uncategorized item.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the returning of the result of the container page is based on a selection of an uncategorized item associated with the container that has not been published by the network-based publication system within a certain time period.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the returning of the result of the container page is based on a selection of an uncategorized item associated with the container that has been associated with the container for a predetermined time period.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having embodied thereon instruction that when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
generating one or more containers, each container being associated with a subset of a dynamically changing inventory of items of a network-based publication system and including a cluster of one or more items of the subset of the dynamically changing inventory of items;
accessing a search query received by the network-based publication system;
determining that a container of the one or more containers is associated with a subset of the dynamically changing inventory that includes one or more uncategorized items, the container having a title that satisfies the search query;
determining a match score for each of the one or more uncategorized items associated with the container;
adjusting the match score for each of the one or more uncategorized items based on a comparison of each of the uncategorized items to the search query; and
generating a container page displaying item information associated with the determined container, including information associated with an uncategorized item having a best adjusted match score.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13 , further comprising generating a container-based container page including a display of item information for at least one uncategorized item associated with the container having a title that best matches the search query.

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

• G06Q30/0623

  by investigating goods or services · CPC title

• G06Q10/087

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

• G06Q30/08

  Auctions · CPC title

• G06Q30/0603 Primary

  Catalogue creation or management · CPC title

• G06F17/30554

  Physics · mapped topic