System and method for orchestration of customization for a user experience

• US 9,753,902 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2014
• Issued: 09/05/2017
• 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): Kendall, Chuck
• Application Number:
  US14/503,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20150019954A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,071 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 system in an example embodiment includes automatically producing user experience customization selections for generating a webpage based on context information and a collection of user activity feedback from a community of users who previously interacted with the webpage. The user experience customization selections include a plurality of modules for inclusion in the web page, where each of the modules represent a user-interface element. One or more of the plurality of modules having input and output properties defining at least one application programming interface (API). The system in a further embodiment includes discovering dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules by extracting dependency information from the at least one API associated with the one or more of the plurality of modules. The system in another embodiment includes generating a dependency graph for the webpage based on the dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules and invoking the plurality of modules based on the dependency graph to generate the webpage.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

with a processor, automatically producing user experience customization selections to generate a webpage based on context information and a collection of user activity feedback from a community of users who previously interacted with the webpage, the user experience customization selections including a plurality of modules for inclusion in the web page, each of the modules representing a user-interface element, and one or more of the plurality of modules having input and output properties defining at least one application programming interface (API);

discovering dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules by extracting dependency information from the at least one API associated with the one or more of the plurality of modules;

generating a dependency graph for the webpage based on the dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules; and

invoking the plurality of modules based on the dependency graph to generate the webpage.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of modules being a logical unit of code that can be reused on the webpage.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

designating at least one of the plurality of modules for retaining the dependency information, the dependency information including information indicative of states of dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the dependency state information for the plurality of modules of the webpage is based in part on metadata of the webpage.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adjusting the user experience customization selections based on the collection of user activity feedback from the community of users to provide selections likely favored by a user based on a correlation of the user activity feedback with the context information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the context information is selected from the group consisting of:

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

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the context information is selected from dimensions in the group consisting of:

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 based on a particular dimension not providing sufficient or accurate information.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the user experience customization selections are selected from the group consisting of:

page type, modules, and configurations.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein invoking the plurality of modules based on the dependency graph to generate the webpage further comprises:

executing the plurality of modules of the webpage in an order indicated by the dependency graph.

10. A system comprising:

a processor; and

an orchestrator, executable by the processor, the orchestrator configured to

automatically produce user experience customization selections to generate the webpage based on context information and a collection of user activity feedback from a community of users who previously interacted with the webpage, the user experience customization selections including the plurality of modules for inclusion in the web page, each of the modules representing a user-interface element, and one or more of the plurality of modules having input and output properties defining at least one application programming interface (API);

discover dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules by extracting dependency information from the at least one API associated with the one or more of the plurality of modules;

generate a dependency graph for the webpage based on the dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules; and

invoke the plurality of modules based on the dependency graph to generate the webpage.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein at least one of the plurality of modules being a logical unit of code that can be reused on the webpage.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the orchestrator is further configured to:

designate at least one of the plurality of modules for retaining the dependency information, the dependency information including information indicative of states of dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the dependency state information for the plurality of modules of the webpage is based in part on metadata of the webpage.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the orchestrator is further configured to:

adjust the user experience customization selections based on the collection of user activity feedback from the community of users to provide selections likely favored by a user based on a correlation of the user activity feedback with the context information.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the context information is selected from the group consisting of:

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

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the context information is selected from dimensions in the group consisting of:

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 based on a particular dimension not providing sufficient or accurate information.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the user experience customization selections are selected from the group consisting of:

page type, modules, and configurations.

18. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

automatically producing user experience customization selections to generate a webpage based on context information and a collection of user activity feedback from a community of users who previously interacted with the webpage, the user experience customization selections including a plurality of modules for inclusion in the web page, each of the modules representing a user-interface element, and one or more of the plurality of modules having input and output properties defining at least one application programming interface (API);

discovering dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules by extracting dependency information from the at least one API associated with the one or more of the plurality of modules;

generating a dependency graph for the webpage based on the dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules; and

invoking the plurality of modules based on the dependency graph to generate the webpage.

19. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 18, wherein at least one of the plurality of modules being a logical unit of code that can be reused on the webpage.

20. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 18,

wherein the operations further comprising:

designating at least one of the plurality of modules for retaining the dependency information, the dependency information including information indicative of states of dependencies between the one or more of the plurality of modules.