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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2021
Bytedance Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Arash Shiva, Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph Hawilo, Chicago, IL (US);
BYTEDANCE INC., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Techniques for providing merchant slot availability management using graphical user interfaces for mobile devices are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a mobile device with processing circuitry configured to generate a multi-level graphical user interface (mGUI), and provide the mGUI to a touch screen display of the mobile device. The processing circuitry may be further configured to monitor a touch screen for various predefined user inputs for traversing tiered levels, and updating the mGUI. The mGUI may be used to implement interfaces various mobile device interfaces used for organizing hierarchal or structured data. For example, the mGUI may be used to implement a merchant slot management interface that allows merchants to dynamically adjust slot availability and associated properties, manage slots such as by creating tabs, or generate promotions for available slots.