Corrective Database Connection Management

    公开(公告)号:US20220188184A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17689360

    申请日:2022-03-08

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: Systems and methods for are provided for predicting impending failure of a database and preemptively initiating mitigating failover actions, for example by shedding connections or redirecting connection requests to an alternate database that can fulfill resources being requested. In an example embodiment, to detect a slow or unstable database, connection wait times are monitored over a rolling window of time intervals, a quantity of intervals in which at least one excessive wait time event occurred are counted during the time window, and if the quantity exceeds a threshold, the database is deemed unavailable, thereby triggering connection adjustments.

    CENTRALIZED CLIENT APPLICATION MANAGEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220188094A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17686883

    申请日:2022-03-04

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: Systems and methods for centralized client application management are provided. In an example embodiment, a client state is received from a mobile device at a management device. The client state comprises information about a particular application. A first instruction for the mobile device is generated by one or more hardware processors. The first instruction comprises an instruction to the mobile device to prevent user interaction with a user interface of a particular application. The first instruction is communicated to the mobile device, and the mobile device performs the first instruction to prevent user interaction with the user interface of the particular application.

    Supplementing an image gallery with status indicators

    公开(公告)号:US11361360B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-14

    申请号:US16797719

    申请日:2020-02-21

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method to provide status indictors on an image galley is disclosed. At least one item to be displayed in an image gallery on a client device is identified. Once identified, status information for the item is obtained. Subsequently, gallery rendering and display instructions are generated and transmitted to the client device. The rendering and display instructions include the status information and enables generation of status indicators from the status information for display over the image gallery at the client device. The rendering and display instructions may also include instructions for displaying the image gallery. The status information at the client device may be updated as status information changes.

    Displaying a plurality of selectable actions

    公开(公告)号:US11360660B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-14

    申请号:US16151116

    申请日:2018-10-03

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: An item page may be displayed on a client device in response to a request to view an item page from the client device. They item page may include a description of the item. An icon may be generated and the icon may be displayed within a portion of the displayed item page at an icon location. A plurality of selectable actions each being performable with respect to the item described by the item page may be generated and displayed in response to an initial gesture being performed at the icon location for at least a pre-defined threshold duration. Lastly, the plurality of selectable actions may be displayed around the generated icon and within a pre-defined distance from the icon location of the generated icon.

    Method and system to generate a portable contract document

    公开(公告)号:US11354713B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US16724686

    申请日:2019-12-23

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Inventor: Brian Alan Grove

    Abstract: A method and system to generate a portable contract document are provided. The method includes receiving contract information from a client device via an interactive electronic document having one more visual controls. The contract information comprises sale item information, buyer information, and sale price information. The method further includes generating a contract document for a sale of the sale item, utilizing the contract information, and communicating the contract document to the client device via a network communication.

    User customizable web advertisements

    公开(公告)号:US11341542B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US14453349

    申请日:2014-08-06

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: A system and method of providing user customizable web advertisements are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system may include a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions and one or more processors. When the one or more processors execute the computer-executable instructions, the processors may be configured to receive a customizable advertisement, the customizable advertisement having at least one customizable portion. When a customizable portion is selected, the one or more processors may display a plurality of customization options for the at least one customizable portion. The one or more processors may be further configured to receive a selection of a customization option from the plurality of customization options. The one or more processors may then apply the selected customization option to the customizable portion of the customizable advertisement. Afterwards, the one or more processors may then display the customizable advertisement with the selected customization option.

    Generative grammar models for effective promotion and advertising

    公开(公告)号:US11321539B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-03

    申请号:US16845767

    申请日:2020-04-10

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for creating advertisement messages using generative grammar models is presented. A generative grammar model defining a message structure of requested message is accessed. The message structure includes a plurality of lexical slots. The generative grammar model includes a corpus of source data to populate each lexical slot in the plurality of lexical slots to generate an advertisement message for a product listing. An advertisement message is generated in accordance with the generative grammar model and the message is published. The advertisement message for the product listing is then transmitted to a client device.

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