Ebay, Incorporated

Oracle International Corporation

Salesforce Com, Inc.

Paypal, Inc.

Other

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.

Muhammad Faisal Rehman

Ryan McDonald

Olivier G Dumon

Ken Sun

Julie Lavee Netzloff

Sanjay Pundlkrao Ghatare

Rami El-Charif

Steven Aihua Chen

Oliver G Dumon

Qian Zhong

Guanglei Song

Mark Alan Kleidon

Ashita Achuthan

Rajit Kurien Joseph

Kent Andrew Edmonds

Joseph Anthony Beynon

Anjan Goswami

Vipul C Dalal

Michael Mathieson

Sameep Navin Solanki

Jatin Pinakin Thaker

Jingzhou Hua

Bina Sunil Patel

Arun Balasubramanyam

Ted Tao Yuan

Guanglie Song

Laurent Frederic Pacalin

Jeremy Robert Walter Ashley

Ramin Modiri

Pradeep Kotha

Azmat Tanauli

Arkadiusz Bigos

Methods and systems for analyzing, ordering and presenting item listings are described. In one example embodiment, a search query is processed to identify item listings satisfying the search query. Then, for each item listing that satisfies the search query, a ranking score is derived and assigned to the item listing. The ranking score is based in part on a relevance score, a listing quality score and a business rules score (or, adjustment factor). Finally, the item listings are ordered, based on their corresponding ranking score, and presented in order in a search results page.

Methods and systems for deriving a score with which item listings are ordered when presented in search results

Methods and systems enable access to listing performance data associated with a search engine. A request for listing performance data for an item is received from a client computing system. The request is associated with a keyword and/or a category. The request is processed to retrieve the listing performance data corresponding to the item, and a value is determined that indicates a strength of the item in a search results listing having a plurality of search results based on a search using the keyword and/or the category. The listing performance data and value are provided for presentation.

Method and system for exposing data used in ranking search results

A controller provides dynamic load distribution in a multi-tier distributed platform. The controller may receive a request at a first Point-of-Presence ('PoP') with a first set of resources. The first PoP may be part of a distributed platform with several distributed PoPs at different network locations. The controller may classify the requested task with a priority, may determine resource availability, and may dynamically distribute the request by (i) providing the request to the first set of resources in response to classifying the task with a high first priority, and determining the availability of the first set of resources to be less than a threshold, and (ii) providing the request to a second PoP in response to classifying the task with a lower second priority, and determining the availability of the first set of resources to be less than the threshold.

Systems and methods for dynamic load distribution in a multi-tier distributed platform

Methods and systems enable access to listing performance data used in conjunction with a search engine to order search results. A request for listing performance data for a specific item listing from a seller is received from a client computing system. The request specifies a keyword and/or a category. The request is processed to retrieve the listing performance data corresponding to the specific item listing, and a position value is determined that indicates a position at which the specific item listing would appear to a potential buyer in a search results listing having a plurality of item listings based on a search using the keyword and/or the category. The listing performance data and position value are transmitted to the client computing system for presentation to the seller.

Methods and systems for using a demand metric for disambiguating a keyword entered from a user of a client machine, the keyword ambiguously identifying a product category, deriving a dominant product category that indicates the probable identity of the product category, and providing selectable images of aspects of the dominant product category for rendering at the client machine. Selection of one of the selectable images of aspects of the dominant product category disambiguates the identity of the ambiguously identified product category. Additional aspects of the disambiguated product category are then presented to the user.

Methods and systems for determining a product category

Methods and systems for simulating a search, for the purpose of evaluating one or more scoring functions used in ordering item listings for presentation in a search results page are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a simulation platform includes a real-time simulation module that receives search result sets for search queries that result in the conclusion of a transaction. The result set is then processed by the simulation platform with one or more test scoring functions, such that the resulting position of the item listing that has resulted in the transaction can be compared with the actual position at which the item listing was displayed in the actual search results. For each test scoring function, an average rank shift metric is determined, and displayed, thereby providing a metric with which to base decisions about which scoring functions to use in the production system.

Methods and systems for selecting an optimized scoring function for use in ranking item listings presented in search results

Methods and systems for enabling access to listing performance data, used in conjunction with a search engine to order search results, are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a listing performance data engine module processes API commands received from client computing systems. The data engine module processes the API commands to identify and communicate relevant listing performance data that is used by a listing performance algorithm to assign a listing performance score to item listings satisfying a search request. The listing performance data provides sellers who have items listed for sale an insight as to how their item listings are performing in comparison to other item listings.

Methods and systems for deriving a scoring function, for use in ordering a set of search results, are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a simulation platform includes an offline simulator module that receives search result sets for search queries that result in the conclusion of a transaction. The result set is then processed by the offline simulation platform to derive a set of weighting factors for use with one or more parameters in a parametric scoring function. The weighting factors are determined, for example, by specifying an equation setting one or more constraints and then solving the equation for the weighting factors.

Methods and systems for simulating a search to generate an optimized scoring function

Disclosed is an improved method, system, and program product to implement a business platform that assigns a server instance and dedicated database to each business customer. A connector is configured to retrieve data from an external data source. The retrieved data is stored in a portion of the dedicated database. A user interface having one or more selectable components is displayed, wherein at least one selectable component, when selected displays the external data.

Method and system for embedding third party data into a SaaS business platform

Disclosed is an improved method, system, and program product to implement an integrated enterprise application that provides a series of user interfaces to a user. The series of user interfaces may be configured to display multiple depths of information pertaining to one or more datasets. A first user interface of the series of user interfaces comprises a display component displaying a first depth information pertaining to a particular dataset. In response to the display component being selected, a second user interface is provided displaying a second depth information pertaining to the particular dataset. At least a portion of the first depth information is retrieved from a first enterprise application and at least a portion of the second depth information is retrieved from a second enterprise application.

Method and system for presenting business intelligence information through infolets

Disclosed is an improved method, system, and program product to implement a business platform that assigns a server instance and dedicated database to each business customer. A snapshot of data is periodically copied from one or more database tables to a historical table of the dedicated database. Data is retrieved in response to a query from the historical table, enabling historical trending capabilities without affecting a performance of other business customers of the business platform.

Method and system for implementing historical trending for business records

A method and system for determining an order of presentation of the search results is provided. An example system comprises a search request detector, a search engine, and an intermingler. The search request detector may be configured to receive a search request, and the search engine may be configured to determine search results based on the search request. The search results may comprise a first set of items of a first type and a second set of items of a second type. The number of items in the first set and the number of items in the second may reflect a predetermined target ratio. The intermingler may be configured to determine an order of presentation of the search results in a list of search results based on the target ratio.

Method and system for determining an order of presentation of search results

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