Publishing user submissions

• US 8,442,871 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2012
• Issued: 05/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Veres, Robert Dean, Liang, Ching-Jye
• Primary Examiner(s): ALLEN, WILLIAM J
• Application Number:
  US13/489,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20120246233A1
• Time in Patent Office: 342 Days
• Field of Search: 705 261- 272
• US Class Current: 705/26.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0206 Price or cost determination based on market factors
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions

Abstract

According to the present invention, there is provided a method to facilitate propagating a plurality of transaction listings to a network-based transaction facility. An input interface is presented at a seller application to receive from a user, a plurality of transaction listings, each transaction listing including an associated start time. Also, a data file is composed at the seller application to include the plurality of transaction listings. Moreover, the data file is propagated, using the seller application, from the client computer to the network-based transaction facility.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a communication module configured to;

provide configuration information to a user application configurable according to the configuration information,

the configuration information, after provision, configuring the user application to communicate a plurality of user submissions; and

receive the plurality of user submissions from the user application configured according to the provided configuration information; and

a processor configured by a publication module to publish the plurality of user submissions received from the user application configured according to the provided configuration information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the communication module is configured to provide the configuration information to the user application in response to an indication of a targeted network location; and

the publication module configures the processor to publish the plurality of user submissions by publishing the plurality of submissions at the targeted network location.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the configuration information identifies a restricted type of user submission,

the configuration information, after provision, configuring the user application to prevent publication of the restricted type of user submission.

4. A method comprising:

providing configuration information to a user application configurable according to the configuration information,

the configuration information, after provision, configuring the user application to communicate a plurality of user submissions

receiving the plurality of user submissions from the user application configured according to the provided configuration information; and

publishing the plurality of user submissions received from the user application configured according to the provided configuration information, the publishing being performed by a processor of a machine.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the providing of the configuration information to the user application is in response to an indication of a targeted network location; and

the publishing of the plurality of submissions includes publishing the plurality of submissions at the targeted network location.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

receiving the indication of the targeted network location.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein:

at least one of the plurality of user submissions includes a start time; and

the publishing of the plurality of user submissions includes publishing the at least one of the plurality of user submissions according to the start time.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

scheduling the publishing of the at least one of the plurality of user submissions according to the start time.

9. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

updating at least one of the plurality of user submissions prior to the publishing of the plurality of user submissions.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein:

the updating of the at least one of the plurality of user submissions is performed after the receiving of the plurality of user submissions and prior to a start time associated with the at least one of the plurality of user submissions.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

receiving the start time associated with the at least one of the plurality of user submissions; and

wherein

the updating of the at least one of the plurality of user submissions is in response to the receiving of the start time.

12. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the configuration information includes at least one of;

a software module update of the user application,

a category update of the user application,

an attribute update of the user application, or

a language update of the user application.

13. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the configuration information identifies a geographical region according to which the configuration information, after provision, configures the user application.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein:

the configuration information identifies the geographical region by identifying at least one of;

a country,

a state,

a territory, or

a province.

15. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the configuration information identifies a currency according to which the configuration information, after provision, configures the user application.

16. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the configuration information identifies a currency representation format according to which the configuration information, after provision, configures the user application.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein:

the currency representation format identified by the configuration information specifies that a whole number be used in representing an amount of currency in the publishing of the plurality of user submissions.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein:

the currency representation format identified by the configuration information specifies that a punctuation mark be used in representing an amount of currency in the publishing of the plurality of user submissions.

19. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the configuration information identifies subject matter according to which the configuration information, after provision, configures the user application.

20. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the configuration information identifies a purpose according to which the configuration information, after provision, configures the user application.

21. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

providing configuration information to a user application configurable according to the configuration information,

the configuration information, after provision, configuring the user application to communicate a plurality of user submissions,

the providing of the configuration information being performed by the one or more processors of the machine;

receiving the plurality of user submissions from the user application configured according to the provided configuration information; and

publishing the plurality of user submissions received from the user application configured according to the provided configuration information.

22. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein:

the providing of the configuration information to the user application is in response to an indication of a targeted network location; and

the publishing of the plurality of submissions includes publishing the plurality of submissions at the targeted network location.