Personalized item trading card generation and management

• US 9,679,319 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2014
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Yankovich, Steve, Veres, Robert, Melcher, Ryan
• Primary Examiner(s): ALLEN, WILLIAM J
• Application Number:
  US14/148,596
• Publication Number:
  US 20140108196A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,254 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• 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 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

Methods and systems to generate and manage an item trading card are provided. A method may include providing an interface to access an item trading card associated with an item, and generating the item trading card including an item identifier associated with the item, a trading card identifier associated with the trading card, item data about the item, and market data about the item. The method further includes sharing the item trading card.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a non-transitory memory to store an inventory corresponding to a user; and

one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising;

accessing, from the inventory in the memory, an electronic card for an item associated with an item identifier, a card identifier, and an image of the item generated by an optical scanner;

automatically collecting additional data about the item from a database in communication with the one or more hardware processors, wherein the automatically collecting additional data further comprises determining, via a global positioning system, a location of a user device;

updating the electronic card based on the automatically collected additional data such that the updated electronic card includes the item identifier, the card identifier, and at least a portion of the automatically collected additional data, including a map identifying sources for parts or service related to the item associated with the item identifier based on the determined location; and

communicating the updated electronic card over a network to the user device such that the user device renders the updated electronic card in a user interface rendered in a display of the user device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the collected additional data includes user-specific data, the user-specific data including search terms previously entered by the user, another item associated with the user, or a transaction history of the user.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a request from the user to list the item associated with the updated electronic card for sale or purchase in an online environment;

determining whether the user has permission to list the item for sale or purchase in the online environment; and

listing the updated electronic card for sale or purchase in the online environment.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory memory further stores a catalog, the catalog including information about items included in the inventory.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the image is a barcode received from the user, a quick response code received from the user, or a picture of the item received from the user.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise collecting market data including a price trend based on recent sales of the item or substantially similar items and wherein the updated electronic card communicated over the network to the user device for rendering in the user interface includes information for graphically rendering the price trend as an arrow.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the market data is collected from an online marketplace or a third-party website accessible to the one or more hardware processors over the network.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

providing a search module to enable a second user to search an online marketplace;

receiving a search query from the user; and

generating search results based on the updated electronic card.

9. The system of claim 1, where the operations further comprise:

identifying that the inventory includes a set of linked sub-inventories; and

determining permissions of the user with respect to each of the linked sub-inventories; and

preventing the user from listing another electronic card for sale or purchase in an online marketplace based on the permissions.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the set of linked sub-inventories comprises a family inventory and each linked sub-inventory is associated with an individual family member.

11. A method comprising:

accessing, electronically by a hardware processor, an electronic card for an item, the electronic card including an item identifier associated with the item and a card identifier associated with the electronic card;

automatically collecting additional data about the item from a database in communication with the hardware processor, wherein the automatically collecting additional data further comprises determining, via a global positioning system, a location of a user device;

updating, electronically by the hardware processor, the electronic card based on the automatically collected additional data to generate an updated electronic card that includes at least a portion of the additional data about the item and wherein the updating further includes adding a map identifying sources for parts or service related to the item associated with the item identifier based on the determined location;

communicating, over a network to the user device, information to be rendered by the user device in a user interface as the updated electronic card; and

rendering within the user interface, by the hardware processor, the updated electronic card including the map.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the electronic card is associated with a unique barcode associated with the item.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the item identifier comprises a barcode or quick response (QR) code received from a user device in communication with the hardware processor over a network.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising sharing the electronic card over a network, comprising a local area network, a social network, and/or a wide area network.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the communicating of the electronic card comprises sharing the electronic card between two or more mobile devices via a Bluetooth standard, an 802.11 standard, or a Bump application.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising automatically collecting market data about the item.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising updating the electronic card based on the automatically collected market data.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein the collecting of the market data about the item comprises accessing a catalog.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising providing an option to a consumer in the user interface rendered by the user device to list the item for sale or purchase in an online marketplace.