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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 17, 2012
Applicant:

Ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jennifer Pearson, San Jose, CA (US);

Hsiaozhang Bill Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

eBay, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/22 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 30/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/24 (2013.01); G06F 17/30896 (2013.01); G06Q 30/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

In various embodiments, a method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are disclosed for creating a pool of images available for display, such as in one or more web pages. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes generating a pre-determined number N of numbers and encoding an instruction in a markup language document. The instruction includes the N numbers and is executed by one or more processors to select N images for insertion into the markup language document. The N images are selected from all available images using the N numbers, and the N images are placed in the markup language document at one or more respective locations defined in the instruction with the N images to be displayed on one or more web pages. Other embodiments are also disclosed.


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