Method, system, and medium for displaying automatically pushing information related to items offered for sale in a network-based marketplace
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsJeffrey Loui, David Vogt, Jared Kaplan, Tony Lam
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Abstract
A system for transmitting information related to a network-based marketplace includes identifying information that may be interesting, useful, and entertaining to the users and to the potential users of the network-based marketplace. The identified information may be other than information that is already being displayed in listings by the network-based marketplace. The identified information may be about the sellers, the buyers or other items related to the items offered for sale.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- identifying, in a network-based marketplace, item information describing an item offered for sale;
- based on the item offered for sale, identifying, from a source of information separate from the item information, supplemental information to supplement the item information;
- identifying a multimedia program comprising at least a portion of the supplemental information;
- in response to receiving an action, pushing at least the portion of the supplemental information to a remote computing device;
- and
- causing the multimedia program to be displayed on the remote computing device, wherein the multimedia program is provided in a webpage, the webpage displaying the item information describing the item.
A system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- memory encoding computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor;
- perform as method comprising:
- identifying, in a network-based marketplace, item information describing an item offered for sale;
- based on the item offered for sale, identifying, from a source of information separate from the item information, supplemental information to supplement the item information;
- identifying a multimedia program comprising at least a portion of the supplemental information;
- in response to receiving an action, pushing at least the portion of the supplemental information to a remote computing device;
- and
- causing the multimedia program to be displayed on the remote computing device, wherein the multimedia program is provided in a webpage, the webpage displaying the item information describing the item.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoding computer executable instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, perform a method comprising:
- identifying, in a network-based marketplace, item information describing an item offered for sale;
- based on the item offered for sale, identifying, from a source of information separate from the item information, supplemental information to supplement the item information;
- identifying a multimedia program comprising at least a portion of the supplemental information;
- in response to receiving an action, pushing at least the portion of the supplemental information to a remote computing device;
- and
- causing the multimedia program to be displayed on the remote computing device, wherein the multimedia program is provided in a webpage, the webpage displaying the item information describing the item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.