US 2019/0197189 A1Published application

Text processing of message data for item query submission

AssigneePaypal, Inc.

InventorTodd Studnicka

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Abstract

There are provided systems and methods for text processing of message data for item query submission. A computing device may receive message data from a messaging application, such as a text message or email. A user may utilize an input device to select or highlight a portion of the message data as text input, and utilize an application plug-in and menu from a service provider to communicate the text input to the service provider. A service provider may determine a query on a preferred merchant platform using the input. An item may be determined using the query and a platform. The service provider may then generate user interface data for the messaging application that causes the text input to output item data for the item within the application. The computing device may navigate to the merchant platform through the item data.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a network interface component configured to communicate with a first device and a first online platform;
a non-transitory memory comprising a database storing interface output data for a plurality of device applications;
and
one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a first device, text input contained within message data associated with a first account utilized through the first device;
identifying a search term for the text input;
determining a first online platform utilized by the first account based on past data of online platform usage through the first account;
executing a first search on the first online platform using the search term;
in response to receiving search results comprising a first item available with the first online platform, extracting item data for the first item on the first online platform;
and
generating output data for the item data with the message data using the interface output data, wherein the interface output data changes the text input to a selectable option to display the item data and link to the first item on the first online platform in an interface displaying the message data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.