System and methods for personalization and enhancement of a marketplace

US11113740B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• eBay Inc. · US

Inventors

• Michael George Lenahan · Burlington, US
• Ben Mitchell · Oakland, US
• Chahn Chung · San Francisco, US
• Myra Sandoval · San Francisco, US
• Timothy Sean Suglian · San Francisco, US
• Matthew Bret MacLaurin · Woodinville, US
• James Ross Skorupski · San Jose, US
• Jesse Wolfe · Sammamish, US
• Hsin-Yi Chien · Cupertino, US
• Marie Jeanette Floyd Tahir · San Jose, US
• Jai Dandekar · San Jose, US
• Healey Cypher · Santa Cruz, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 2, 2017
• Grant date: Sep 7, 2021
• Expiry date: Jun 26, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0643
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for enhancing and personalizing an interactive marketplace. The method may include receiving one or more images depicting one or more products owned by a user and identifying the one or more products based on a comparison of the one or more images to a product database. The method may further include determining a market value for each of the one or more products. In response to determining the market value of at least one product exceeds a predefined threshold value, an alert is transmitted to a computing device of the user.