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US 2017/0364979 A1Published application
Instant messaging robot to provide product information
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorXiaoming Zhang
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AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorXiaoming Zhang
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Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
The method of claim wherein the presentation of the filtered set of search results includes a set of links to one or more item listings.
A system comprising:
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.