Methods and systems to browse data items

• US 9,262,056 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2005
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Leon, Jean-Michel, Baird-Smith, Anselm Paul, Monier, Louis Marcel Gino
• Primary Examiner(s): Obaid, Fateh M
• Application Number:
  US11/241,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20060224406A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,792 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Methods and Systems to browse data items. There is provided a method and system to enable a buyer to browse listings that are listed by sellers on a network-based marketplace and stored in a data resource. There is further provided a method to cancel characteristics used to identify listings that are listed by sellers on a network-based marketplace.

Claims

1. A method including:

receiving item information, over a network at a computer based system, from a first client machine and storing, at a computer based system, the item information in a first listing, the first client machine being associated with a seller, the receiving item information being executed by at least one processer;

receiving a plurality of selections, over the network at a computer based system, from at least one client machine, the at least one client machine being associated with a user, the plurality of selections being monitored, at a computer based system, to identify an elevated level of interest of a first user for a first plurality of browsing sets, the first plurality of browsing sets including a first browsing set, the receiving the plurality of selections being executed by at least one processer;

receiving a query from, over the network at a computer based system, from the at least one client machine, the query including at least one keyword, the receiving the query being executed by at least one processer;

automatically selecting, at a computer system, a second plurality of browsing sets from a third plurality of browsing sets based on at least one keyword in the query and further automatically selecting the first browsing set from the second plurality of browsing sets based on the elevated level of interest of the first user for the first browsing set, the first browsing set including a browsing concept, the automatically selecting being executed by at least one processer;

generating, at a computer system, a first user interface including the browsing concept, the user interface further including at least two ranges of browsing values that are associated with the browsing concept, the at least two ranges of browsing values including a first range of numeric browsing values and a second range of numeric browsing values, the first range of numeric browsing values being associated with a first selection mechanism and the second range of numeric browsing values being associated with a second selection mechanism, the generating being executed by at least one processer;

receiving, over a network via the first user interface at a computer based system, at least two selections, the receiving the at least two selections including receiving a first selection via the first selection mechanism identifying the first range of numeric browsing values and receiving a second selection via the second selection mechanism identifying the second range of numeric browsing values, the receiving the at least two selections to cause a search of a data resource to be narrowed to a plurality of listings that respectively include item information including a value that matches at least one value that is selected from the first range of numeric browsing values and the second range of numeric browsing values, the receiving the at least two selections being executed by at least one processer; and

identifying, at a computer system, at least two listings that are stored in the data resource, the identifying including identifying the first listing based on the first range of numeric browsing values and an evaluation of item information that is included in the first listing, the identifying further including identifying a second listing based on the second range of numeric browsing values and an evaluation of item information that is included in the second listing, the identifying being executed by at least one processer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the item information that is stored in the first listing is associated with the at least two ranges of browsing values based on at least two rules selected from a group of rules consisting of rules that are utilized to classify the item information and rules that infer additional information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the item information includes at least one of a price, a selling duration, and an auction duration.

4. The method of claim 3, further including adding catalog information to the item information that is included in the first listing responsive to identifying item information including at least one of an USBN number, a Universal Product Number, a Universal Product Code and a proper noun.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first listing is associated with a plurality of browsing concepts respectively associated with a plurality of ranges of browsing values.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least two selections are combined with the query to identify the at least two listings.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface enables the buyer to request a second user interface including additional ranges of browsing values associated with the browsing concept.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the first range of numeric browsing values consists of a lower numeric limit and an upper numeric limit.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an order of interest for the second plurality of browsing sets from an administrator.

8. A system including:

a processor and executable instructions accessible on a computer-readable medium that, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receive item information, over a network at a computer based system, from a first client machine and store, at a computer based system, the item information in a first listing, the first client machine is associated with a seller;

receive a plurality of selections, over the network at a computer based system, from at least one client machine, the at least one client machine is associated with a user, the plurality of selections being monitored, at a computer based system, to identify an elevated level of interest of a first user for a first plurality of browsing sets, the first plurality of browsing sets including a first browsing set;

receive a query from, over the network at a computer based system, from the at least one client machine, the query including at least one keyword;

automatically select, at a computer based system, a second plurality of browsing sets from a third plurality of browsing sets based on at least one keyword in the query and further automatically select the first browsing set from the second plurality of browsing sets based on the elevated level of interest of the first user for the first browsing set, the first browsing set including a browsing concept;

generate, at a computer based system, a first user interface including the browsing concept, the user interface further including at least two ranges of browsing values that are associated with the browsing concept, the at least two ranges of browsing values including a first range of numeric browsing values and a second range of numeric browsing values, the first range of numeric browsing values being associated with a first selection mechanism and the second range of numeric browsing values being associated with a second selection mechanism;

receive, over a network via the first user interface at a computer based system, at least two selections, the receipt of the at least two selections including receipt of a first selection via the first selection mechanism to identify the first range of numeric browsing values and receipt of a second selection via the second selection mechanism to identify the second range of numeric browsing values, the receipt of the at least two selections to cause a search of a data resource to be narrowed to a plurality of listings that respectively include item information including a value that matches at least one value that is selected from the first range of numeric browsing values and the second range of numeric browsing values; and

identify, at a computer based system, at least two listings that are stored in the data resource, the identification including identification of the first listing based on the first range of numeric browsing values and an evaluation of item information that is included in the first listing, the identification further including identification of a second listing based on the second range of numeric browsing values and an evaluation of item information that is included in the second listing.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the item information that is stored in the first listing is characterized with the first range of numeric browsing values based on a rule from a group of rules consisting of rules that are utilized to classify the item information and rules to infer additional information.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the item information is that is stored in the first listing includes at least one of a price, a selling duration, a selling format, and an auction duration.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the selling format is selected from a group of formats consisting of a fixed-price format and an auction format.

12. The system of claim 10, further including a receiving module to wherein the operations further comprising:

search the item information that is included in the first listing and identify at least one of a USBN number, a Universal Product Number, a Universal Product Code and a proper noun to add catalog information to the item information.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least two listings are associated with a plurality of browsing concepts respectively associated with a plurality of ranges of browsing values.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the at least two browsing selections are combined with the query to identify the at least one listing.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the user interface enables the buyer to request a second user interface including additional browsing values associated with the browsing concept.

16. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprising:

receives, via the user interface, at least two selections.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the at least two selections include a first selection that identifies the first range of numeric browsing values and a second selection that identifies the second range of numeric browsing values.

18. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprising:

receives the item information that is included in the first listing from a seller and the query from a buyer.

21. A machine readable medium having no transitory signals and storing a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

receive item information, over a network at a computer based system, from a first client machine and store, at a computer based system, the item information in a first listing, the first client machine is associated with a seller;

receive a plurality of selections, over the network at a computer based system, from at least one client machine, the at least one client machine is associated with a first user, the plurality of selections is monitored, at a computer based system, to identify an elevated level of interest of the first user for a first plurality of browsing sets, the first plurality of browsing sets including a first browsing set;

receive a query from, over the network at a computer based system, from the at least one client machine, the query including at least one keyword;

automatically select, at a computer based system, a second plurality of browsing sets from a third plurality of browsing sets based on at least one keyword in the query and further automatically select the first browsing set from the second plurality of browsing sets based on the elevated level of interest of the first user for the first browsing set, the first browsing set including a browsing concept;

generate, at a computer based system, a first user interface including the browsing concept, the user interface further including at least two ranges of values that are associated with the browsing concept, the at least two ranges of browsing values including a first range of numeric browsing values and a second range of numeric browsing values, the first range of numeric browsing values is associated with a first selection mechanism and the second range of numeric browsing values is associated with a second selection mechanism;

receive, over a network via the first user interface at a computer based system, at least two selections, including a first selection that is received via the first selection mechanism that identifies the first range of numeric browsing values and a second selection that is received via the second selection mechanism that identifies the second range of numeric browsing values, the receipt of the first and second selections to cause a search of a data resource to be narrowed to a plurality of listings including item information including a value that matches at least one value that is selected from the first range of numeric browsing values and the second range of numeric browsing values; and

identify, at a computer based system, at least two listings that are stored in the data resource, the identification of the first listing is based on the first range of numeric browsing values and an evaluation of item information that is included in the at least one listing, the identification of a second listing is based on the second range of numeric browsing values and an evaluation of item information that is included in the second listing.