Data mining system
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsKirk Lanciani, Nicole Tran, Steve Washington, Neelakantan Sundaresan
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Abstract
A data mining system and method retrieve data related to an item from a database. A survey is generated for presentation in a game. The survey includes the retrieved item data and solicits from a user input data pertaining to the retrieved item data. The input data is received from the survey and stored in a database with the item data. The input data is transmitted to the game and incorporated into the game such that the user interacts with the input data as part of playing the game.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor among the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- retrieving item data from a database, the item data including image data that depicts an item;
- generating a survey based on the item data, the survey including a presentation of the image data that depicts the item;
- causing display of survey at a user device as part of a game on the user device;
- via the survey, prompting a user to provide a keyword that the user associates with the item depicted by the presentation of the image data;
- receiving the keyword from the user device;
- generating a score indicating a relevance of the keyword to the item based at least in part on the user providing the keyword in response to the survey including the presentation of the image data that depicts the item;
- and
- utilizing the score as an indication of relevancy for a search result that is returned in response to receiving a search query.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- retrieving item data from a database, the item data including image data that depicts an item;
- generating a survey based on the item data, the survey including a presentation of the image data that depicts the item;
- causing display of the survey at a user device;
- via the survey, prompting a user to provide a keyword that the user associates with the item depicted by the presentation of the image data;
- receiving the keyword from the user device;
- generating a score indicating a relevance of the keyword to the item based at least in part on the user providing the keyword in response to the survey including the presentation of the image data that depicts the item;
- and
- utilizing the score as an indication of relevancy for a search result that is returned in response to receiving a search query.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a machine, causes the machine to perform operations comprising:
- retrieving item data from a database, the item data including image data that depicts an item;
- generating a survey based on the item data, the survey including a presentation of the image data that depicts the item;
- causing display of the survey at a user device;
- via the survey, prompting a user to provide a keyword that the user associates with the item depicted by the presentation of the image data;
- receiving the keyword from the user device;
- generating a score indicating a relevance of the keyword to the item based at least in part on the user providing the keyword in response to the survey including the presentation of the image data that depicts the item;
- and
- utilizing the score as an indication of relevancy for a search result that is returned in response to receiving a search query.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.