System and method enabling searching for items, listings, or products based on listing activity
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsRichard Aaron Neal Shusterman, Vinh Thu Pham
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Abstract
A system and method for providing a listing activity engine for online computer users is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: accessing a plurality of listings corresponding to items offered on a host site; accessing listing activity level information related to the plurality of listings; producing search results that include only matched listings of the plurality of listings with activity level information indicating activity less than a pre-determined listing activity threshold; and displaying the search results to a user.
Claims20
A method for an improved user interface for displaying listings from a listing database on a display screen of a user device, the method comprising:
- storing, in the listing database, a plurality of listings of items offered on a host site and listing activity information for each of the listings;
- querying the listing database to generate a plurality of search results in response to a search query, the plurality of search results including a portion of the plurality of listings included in the listing database;
- providing, for display on the display screen of the user device, a user interface with the plurality of search results and a listing search option to display low-activity listings;
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- in response to a selection of the listing search option to display low-activity listings, updating the user interface to display low-activity listings by removing listings with listing activity information indicating activity above a threshold.
A system comprising:
- a memory device for storing instructions;
- and
- one or more processors, which, when executing the instructions, causes the system to perform operations comprising:
- storing, in a listing database, a plurality of listings of items offered on a host site and listing activity information for each of the listings;
- querying the listing database to generate a plurality of search results in response to a search query, the plurality of search results including a portion of the plurality of listings included in the listing database;
- providing, for display on a display screen of a user device, a user interface with the plurality of search results and a listing search option to display low-activity listings;
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- in response to a selection of the listing search option to display low-activity listings, updating the user interface to display low-activity listings by removing listings with listing activity information indicating activity above a threshold.
A machine-useable medium embodying instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- storing, in the listing database, a plurality of listings of items offered on a host site and listing activity information for each of the listings;
- providing, for display on a display screen of a user device, a user interface for receiving a search query, the user interface including a listing search option to display low-activity listings;
- receiving, via the user interface, user input submitting the search query and selecting the listing search option to display low-activity listings;
- querying the listing database to generate a plurality of search results based on the user input, the plurality of search results including a portion of the plurality of listings included in the listing database that correspond to the search query and are determined to be low-activity listings based on listing activity information indicating activity below a threshold;
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- providing, for display on the display screen of the user device, the plurality of search results.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.