Network-based sales system with a customizable user interface

• US 9,607,333 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2013
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Ackley, Matthew F., Aparo, Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Augustine, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US14/070,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20140058904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,243 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

Systems and methods for a network-based sales system with customizable user interfaces are described. The system generates first and second sales interfaces based on customization commands and communicates the sales interfaces, over a network, through respective member sites to first and second users. The system further receives first and second requests to view a listing of an item that is presented in an offer for sale via the first and second sales interfaces, retrieves a record from a central database system that is changed responsive to a sale of the item that is presented in the first and second sales listings, modifies an object model representation of a central database system based on the retrieval of the record that is changed and regenerates the first and second sales interfaces responsive to the modification of the object model representation.

Claims

1. A sales system, comprising:

a first sales interface;

a second sales interface; and

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

generating the first sales interface based on a first set of customization commands and communicating the first sales interface, over a network, through a first member site to a first user;

generating the second sales interface based on a second set of customization commands and communicating the second sales interface, over the network, through a second member site to a second user;

receiving a first request to view a listing of an item that is presented in an offer for sale to the first user via the first sales interface;

receiving a second request to view the listing of the item that is presented in an offer for sale to the second user via the second sales interface;

storing an object model representation of a central database system in memory, the object model representation including a record of the listing;

retrieving the record of the listing from the central database system in response to the receiving the first request or the second request to view the listing;

detecting a change of the record, the change based on a sale of the item of the record;

modifying, in memory, the object model representation of the central database system in response to the detecting the change of the record, the object model being a structured representation of data in memory, the data being retrieved from the central database system and stored in the object model;

regenerating the first and second sales interfaces while the sales system is operational in response to the modifying the object model representation.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second sales interfaces are operative to present a plurality of linked pages.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first sales interface includes elements that are included in a first set of pages and wherein the second sales interface includes elements that are included in a second set of pages.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first sales interface includes a header that is included in the first set of pages and wherein the second sales interface includes a header that is included in the second set of pages.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first sales interface includes interface elements that include at least part of a name of the first domain, and wherein the second sales interface includes interface elements that include at least part of a name of the second domain.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations are further comprising receiving a user arrangement of a plurality of user interface tokens, the user interface tokens define display attributes of at least one view of at least one of the plurality of sales interfaces.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the user interface tokens represent parts of the first and second sales interfaces that are customizable.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations are further comprising scanning the central database system to identify the record in the central database system that is changed.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations are further comprising maintaining a dirty bit to indicate a change since the last generation of the first or second sales interfaces.

10. A method comprising:

generating a first sales interface based on a first set of customization commands;

generating a second sales interface based on a second set of customization commands;

communicating the first sales interface, over a network, through a first member site to a first user;

communicating the second sales interface, over the network, through a second member site to a second user;

receiving a first request to view a listing of an item that is presented in an offer for sale to the first user via the first sales interface;

receiving a second request to view the listing of the item that is presented in an offer for sale to the second user via the second sales interface;

retrieving a record of the listing from a central database system in response to the receiving the first request or the second request to view the listing;

detecting a change of the record, the change based on a sale of the item of the record;

modifying, in memory, an object model representation of a central database system in response to the detecting the change of the record, the object model being a structured representation of data in memory, the data being retrieved from the central database system and stored in the object model; and

regenerating the first and second sales interfaces responsive to the modification, in memory, of the object model representation, while the sales system is operational.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first and second sales interfaces operate to present a plurality of linked pages.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the first sales interface includes elements that are included in a first set of pages and wherein the second sales interface includes elements that are included in a second set of pages.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the first sales interface includes a header that is included in the first set of pages and wherein the second sales interface includes a header that is included in the second set of pages.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the first sales interface includes interface elements that include at least part of a name of a first domain, and wherein the second sales interface includes interlace elements that include at least part of a name of a second domain.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving a user arrangement of a plurality of user interface tokens.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the user interface tokens define display attributes of at least one view of at least one of the plurality of sales interfaces, wherein the user interface tokens represent parts of the first and second sales interfaces that are customizable.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising scanning the central database system to identify the record in the central database system that is changed.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the record includes a dirty bit to indicate whether the record has been changed since the last generation of the first or second sales interfaces.

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

generating a first sales interface based on a first set of customization commands;

generating a second sales interface based on a second set of customization commands;

communicating the first sales interface, over a network, through a first member site to a first user;

communicating the second sales interface, over the network, through a second member site to a second user;

receiving a first request to view a listing of an item that is presented in an offer for sale to the first user via the first sales interface;

receiving a second request to view the listing of the item that is presented in an offer for sale to the second user via the second sales interface;

retrieving a record of the listing from a central database system in response to the receiving the first request or the second request to view the listing;

detecting a change of the record, the change based on a sale of the item of the record;

modifying, in memory, an object model representation of a central database system in response to the detecting the change of the record, the object model being a structured representation of data in memory, the data being retrieved from the central database system and stored in the object model; and

regenerating the first and second sales interfaces responsive to the modification, in memory, of the object model representation, while the sales system is operational.

20. The machine readable medium of claim 19, further comprising scanning the central database system to identify the record in the central database system that is changed.