System and method for orchestration of customization for a user experience

• US 8,904,345 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2008
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Dalal, Vipul C., Belur, Rangaraj Keshavamurthy
• Primary Examiner(s): Teixeira Moffat, Jonathan C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dinh, Lynda
• Application Number:
  US12/315,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20100083217A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,188 Days
• Field of Search: 707/10, 707/501.1, 707/E17.108, 707/100, 717/106
• US Class Current: 717/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters

Abstract

A system and method for orchestration of customization for a user experience is disclosed. The apparatus in an example embodiment includes identifying a plurality of modules included in a webpage; discovering dependencies between each of the modules of the plurality of modules; designating at least one module of the plurality of modules for retaining dependency state information, the dependency state information including information indicative of states of dependencies between modules of the plurality of modules; and executing the modules of the webpage in an order indicated by the dependency state information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

collecting user activity feedback from a community of users;

identifying a plurality of modules for inclusion in a webpage, each of the plurality of modules being a user-interface element that is likely favored by a particular user based on a correlation of the collected user activity feedback and context information associated with the particular user, each of the plurality of modules having input and output properties;

discovering dependencies between each of the plurality of modules based on the input and output properties of each of the plurality of modules, wherein discovering dependencies between each of the modules of the plurality of modules includes extracting dependency information from an application programming interface (API) for each of the plurality of modules;

designating a state module from the plurality of modules for retaining dependency state information, the dependency state information including a number of states available at the state module;

generating a dependency graph for the webpage based on the discovered dependencies and the dependency state information; and

creating the webpage by executing the plurality of modules in an order corresponding to the dependency graph.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein at least one module of the plurality of modules being a logical unit of code that can be reused on a web page.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the dependency state information for modules of a webpage being based in part on the metadata of the webpage.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the context information is selected from the group:

site identifier, buyer segmentation information, domain identifier, and keywords/queries.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the context information is selected from dimensions in the group:

site identifier, buyer segmentation information, domain identifier, and keywords/queries, and the method further includes progressively falling back to other sufficient and accurate dimensions in the group if a particular dimension does not provide sufficient or accurate information.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the user experience customization selections are selected from the group:

page type, modules, and configurations.

7. A system comprising:

a processor; and

an orchestrator, executable by the processor, the orchestrator being configured to collect user activity feedback from a community of users;

identify a plurality of modules for inclusion in a webpage, each of the plurality of modules being a user-interface element that is likely favored by a particular user based on a correlation of the collected user activity feedback and context information associated with the particular user, each of the plurality of modules having input and output properties;

discover dependencies between each of the plurality of modules based on the input and output properties of each of the plurality of modules, wherein discovering dependencies between each of the modules of the plurality of modules includes extracting dependency information from an application programming interface (API) for each of the plurality of modules;

designate a state module from the plurality of modules for retaining dependency state information, the dependency state information including a number of states available at the state module;

generate a dependency graph for the webpage based on the discovered dependencies and the dependency state information; and

create the webpage by executing the plurality of identified modules in an order corresponding to the dependency graph.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7 wherein at least one module of the plurality of modules being a logical unit of code that can be reused on a web page.

9. The system as claimed in claim 7 wherein the dependency state information for modules of a webpage being based in part on the metadata of the webpage.

10. The system as claimed in claim 7 wherein the context information is selected from the group:

site identifier, buyer segmentation information, domain identifier, and keywords/queries.

11. The system as claimed in claim 7 wherein the context information is selected from dimensions in the group:

site identifier, buyer segmentation information, domain identifier, and keywords/queries, and the method further includes progressively falling back to other sufficient and accurate dimensions in the group if a particular dimension does not provide sufficient or accurate information.

12. The system as claimed in claim 7 wherein the user experience customization selections are selected from the group:

page type, modules, and configurations.

13. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having machine executable instructions embedded thereon, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

collect user activity feedback from a community of users;

identify a plurality of modules for inclusion in a webpage, each of the plurality of modules being a user-interface element that is likely favored by a particular user based on a correlation of the collected user activity feedback and context information associated with the particular user, each of the plurality of modules having input and output properties;

discover dependencies between each of the plurality of modules based on the input and output properties of each of the plurality of modules, wherein discovering dependencies between each of the modules of the plurality of modules includes extracting dependency information from an application programming interface (API) for each of the plurality of modules;

designate a state module from the plurality of modules for retaining dependency state information, the dependency state information including a number of states available at the state module generating a dependency graph for the webpage based on the discovered dependencies and the dependency state information; and

creating the webpage by executing the plurality of modules in an order corresponding to the dependency graph.