Building containers of uncategorized items

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9852458-B2
Application number	US-201313966978-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 14, 2013
Priority date	Aug 14, 2012
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

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 computer-readable storage medium whose contents, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations for diversifying search results by selectively compressing a result set, the operations comprising:
receiving, by the server of a network-based publication system, a search query including one or more keywords;
collecting information from titles of items available for purchase within the network-based publication system;
generating a title for a container of uncategorized items available for purchase within the network-based publication system that is based on the collected information;
based on generating the title for the container, automatically associating two or more uncategorized items available for purchase within the network-based publication system to the container based on generating the title for the container, the association based on a comparison of titles of the two or more uncategorized items and the generated title for the container of uncategorized items, the association of the two or more uncategorized items to the container grouping the two or more uncategorized items in a category corresponding to the generated title for the container;
based on the one or more keywords, identifying, by a server of the network-based publication system, a plurality of listing information on a storage device coupled to the server, the plurality of listing information representing a plurality of categorized items;
determining that the title of the container satisfies the search query and the two or more uncategorized items associated with the container are identified by the one or more keywords; and
based on the association of the two or more uncategorized items to the container, automatically generating at least a portion of a webpage to be displayed, the webpage containing listing information for one or more items included in the plurality of categorized items and a product purchase page based on the association of the two or more uncategorized items to the container, the product purchase page including descriptions of the two or more uncategorized items and compressing display of the listing information of the two or more uncategorized items within the product page of the container.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein an uncategorized item is associated with the container when a title for the uncategorized item includes a number of token words that match words of the generated title for the container that is above a threshold number for associating items to containers.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein an uncategorized item is associated with the container when a percentage of token words of a title for the uncategorized item matching words of the generated title for the container is above a threshold percentage for associating items to containers.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the title for a container of uncategorized items available for purchase within the network-based publication system is generated based on contents of a set of prior search queries received by the network-based publication system.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the title for a container of uncategorized items available for purchase within the network-based publication system is generated based on contents of a set of prior search queries received by the network-based publication system and based on a number of uncategorized items available for purchase to be associated to the container.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
linking the container to a second container within the network-based publication system based on a comparison of titles of the container and the second container.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
building a dictionary of titles from the titles of items available for purchase within the network-based publication system; and
wherein the title for the container generated based on, but different than, the titles of the items available for purchase within the network-based publication system.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
building a dictionary of titles from contents of f prior search queries received by the network-based publication system; and
wherein the title for the container is generated based on the contents of the set of prior search queries received by the network-based publication system.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
collecting information from titles of items available for purchase at multiple network-based publication systems.

10. A computer-implemented method for diversifying search results by selectively compressing a result set, comprising:
receiving, by the server of a network-based publication system, a search query including one or more keywords;
collecting, by a server of the network-based publication system, information from titles of items available for purchase within a network-based publication system;
generating, by the server of the network-based publication system, a title for a container of uncategorized items available for purchase within the network-based publication system that is based on the collected information;
based on generating the title for the container, automatically associating; by the server of the network-based publication system, 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, the association of the two or more uncategorized items to the container grouping the two or more uncategorized items in a category corresponding to the generated title for the container;
based on the one or more keywords, identifying, by the server of the network-based publication system, a plurality of listing information on a storage device coupled to the server, the plurality of listing information representing a plurality of categorized items;
determining that the title of the container satisfies the search query and the two or more uncategorized items associated with the container are identified by the one or more keywords; and
based on the association of the two or more uncategorized items to the container, automatically generating, by the server of the network-based publication system, at least a portion of a webpage to be displayed, the webpage containing listing information for one or more items included in the plurality of categorized items and a product purchase page for the container, the product purchase page including descriptions of the two or more uncategorized items and compressing display of the listing information of the two or more uncategorized items within the product page of the container.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein associating two or more uncategorized items available for purchase within the network-based publication system to the container includes associating an uncategorized item to the container when a title for the uncategorized item includes a number of token words that match words of the generated title for the container that is above a threshold number for associating items to containers.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein associating two or more uncategorized items available for purchase within the network-based publication system to the container includes associating an uncategorized item to the container when a percentage of token words of a title for the uncategorized item matching words of the generated title for the container is above a threshold per

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

• G06Q30/08

  Auctions · CPC title

• G06Q10/087

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

• G06Q30/0641

  utilising user interfaces specially adapted for shopping · CPC title

• G06F17/30554

  Physics · mapped topic