Building containers of uncategorized items at multiple locations

US10115136B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• eBay Inc. · US

Inventors

• Sanjay Pundlkrao Ghatare · San Jose, US
• Praveen K. Jayaraman · Santa Clara, US
• Sandip Namdeo Gaikwad · Sunnyvale, US
• Ashit Jain · Pleasanton, US
• Joseph Anthony Beynon · Mountain View, US
• Suhail Ansari · Sunnyvale, US
• Hugh Evan Williams · Redmond, US
• Niteen Bhat · Los Altos, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 14, 2013
• Grant date: Oct 30, 2018
• Expiry date: Jul 30, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/08
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and systems to build containers of uncategorized items are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems access a search request for items available for purchase via a network-based location, collect information associated with available items having product description information satisfying the search request and located at multiple network-based locations, determine one or more containers that associate items available for purchase based on the collected information, and publish a result for the search request that is based on the determined containers.