Ebay, Incorporated

Scot Fraser Hamilton

Matthew Olson

Jonathan David Chard

Ladd Van Tol

Luke Shardlow

Vikas Singh

Sean Gates

Bhupendra G Jain

Dinesh Kumar Damodharan

Snezana Sahter

Nicholas Whyte

Ping F Chen

Rekha Patel

Satya Seethasridhar

Glebs Riskovs

Anh DeCroix

Peter David Copeland

Parikshit Arora

Amol Vilas Sane

According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic text message is received from a source telephone number, the electronic text message including content describing a product item. A seller of the product item is identified, based on the source telephone number, and the product item is identified, based on the content included in the electronic text message. Thereafter, a draft version of an item listing is automatically generated, where the item listing lists the product item as being for sale by the seller on a marketplace website.

Message based generation of item listings

Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request to establish a session for a single mobile application executing on a mobile device is received on a remote device via an application programming interface (API) that is integrated with the single mobile application. Information from the single mobile application is received on the remote device via the API, the information including information about the single mobile application. A command is sent from the remote device to the mobile device, causing the mobile device to execute the command in the single mobile application.

Methods, apparatus and system for mobile piggybacking

Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request for assistance from the user is detected and a request is issued to a remote device for establishment of a remote assistance session. Information describing a state of the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device and one or more commands may be received from the remote device. The commands may be executed on the mobile device.

In various example embodiments, a system and method for versioning data in an unstructured data store are presented. The method includes generating a first record in the unstructured data store based on a version of a second record in the unstructured data store. The method further includes initializing a parent version identifier of the first record based on the version of the second record. The method further includes comparing the parent version identifier of the first record to a version identifier of the second record. The method further includes determining whether the first record is consistent based on the comparison.

Providing custom read consistency of a data object in a distributed storage system

A method and a system to determine a product identification of an item for sale in an online publication system is shown and described. For example, the method may be initiated when an input identifying an item is received from a user. An input type (e.g., image, text, audio recording, etc.) may be determined and one or more identification services may be selected based on the input type. At least a portion of the input is transmit to the selected one or more identification services. A product identification is received from each of the one or more identification services. Based on the received product identifications, a recommended product identification is determined. The recommended product identification is transmitted to the user.

Product identification using multiple services

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for optimizing an input publication with augmented content for optimization across multiple types of computing devices. An input publication is analyzed to extract structure and meaning from the input publication to match the input publication with a standardized publication of a standardized publication catalog, the standardized publication having content that is optimized be displayed on a plurality of computing devices. A preview of the input publication is provided with the content from the standardized publication that is optimized be displayed on a particular computing device. A publication corpus is updated to include the input publication with the content from the standardized publication that is optimized be displayed on the particular computing device.

Preview and optimization of publication for target computing device

Methods, apparatus, and system for mobile piggybacking

Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request from a mobile device is issued to a remote device for assistance. Information from the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device, the information comprising command information submitted to a mobile application by a user.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request is issued to a remote from a mobile device for assistance. Information indicative of a sequence of states of an execution of a mobile application is periodically transmitted from a mobile device to the remote device.

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Dublin, CA, United States of America

Scot Fraser Hamilton