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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2012
Shailesh Dinkar Govande, Round Rock, TX (US);
Madhura P. Tipnis, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shailesh Dinkar Govande, Round Rock, TX (US);
Madhura P. Tipnis, Santa Clara, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Contextual menus based on images submitted to a network based publication system are disclosed. Images depicting a variety of locales such as businesses, or other items, may be stored in an image repository in the system and used to identify images that users may submit as photograph images taken by cell phone, camera, webcam, a laptop with camera capability. After identification of the submitted image the system may categorize the image and provide the user a category driven menu relating to the photograph, the menu based on both the submitted image and the user's intent when he or she is capturing the image.