Patents Assigned to Mercari, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20250232344
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing inventory ingestion and pricing system. An embodiment operates by identifying an e-mail receipt identifying a purchased object. The e-mail receipt is parsed for the identification of the purchased object. From an electronic marketplace, a set of items similar to the purchased object is identified. A price for a subset of the identified set of similar items that have sold on the electronic marketplace is determined. A sale price for the purchased object is generated based on the determined prices for the subset of similar items. The generated price is provided responsive to the identification of the purchased object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Mercari, Inc.
    Inventors: Shida SCHUBERT, John Lagerling
  • Patent number: 12346923
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for probabilistic search biasing and recommendations. A system including at least one processor may be configured to receive an input relating to an identified item, generate a database query based on the input, and receive a response to the database query. The response may include information on comparable items similar to the identified item, and corresponding metadata for the comparable items. The corresponding metadata may include a range of values corresponding to the comparable items. The system may be further configured to generate a probability score for at least two values of the range of values, based at least on the corresponding metadata for the comparable items. The system may be further configured to output at least a suggested value based on at least the generated probability score for the range of values and prompt for further input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Byong Mok Oh, Dhruv Mehrotra, Chiaki Osaka, Naoya Makino, Patrick Michael Wiseman, Minami Sueyasu
  • Patent number: 12271935
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing inventory ingestion and pricing system. An embodiment operates by identifying an e-mail receipt identifying a purchased object. The e-mail receipt is parsed for the identification of the purchased object. From an electronic marketplace, a set of items similar to the purchased object is identified. A price for a subset of the identified set of similar items that have sold on the electronic marketplace is determined. A sale price for the purchased object is generated based on the determined prices for the subset of similar items. The generated price is provided responsive to the identification of the purchased object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Shida Schubert, John Lagerling
  • Patent number: 12223522
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for probabilistic search biasing and recommendations. A system including at least one processor may be configured to receive an input relating to an identified item, generate a database query based on the input, and receive a response to the database query. The response may include information on comparable items similar to the identified item, and corresponding metadata for the comparable items. The corresponding metadata may include a range of values corresponding to the comparable items. The system may be further configured to generate a probability score for at least two values of the range of values, based at least on the corresponding metadata for the comparable items. The system may be further configured to output at least a suggested value based on at least the generated probability score for the range of values and prompt for further input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Byong Mok Oh, Dhruv Mehrotra, Chiaki Osaka, Naoya Makino, Patrick Michael Wiseman, Minami Sueyasu
  • Patent number: 12153561
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for assisting in creating a listing for a For Sale Object (FSO). An item name suggestion module receives seller input and provides suggested entries for the listing to help the seller describe the FSO more accurately and consistently. A hierarchical database provides a structure for ordering suggested entries, with the structure ordered based on scores. The scores are based on rules that relate item characteristics and take into account rankings of those item characteristics with respect to one another. Metadata tags that are used by the online merchandise platforms can be identified and included in the listing, even if a seller is not familiar with the metadata tags. The hierarchical database also connects or associates item characteristics in groups that describe specific FSO. The connections can help to optimize search results as the listing is completed by the seller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Sahil Rishi, Manikandan Sankar, Byong Mok Oh, Yodhavee Chuenbunluesook, Ankit Kumar Baruah, Shuichi Iida
  • Patent number: 12124495
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for machine-generating and naming ontologies for for-sale items. A neural network may be used to train information describing for-sale items into feature vectors that describe the for-sale items. These feature vectors may be sorted into clusters based on their relative proximity using clustering algorithms. The resulting clusters may be sub-divided into smaller clusters depending on the precision used in the clustering algorithm. The set of clusters may form a hierarchical data structure where each level has clusters determined at a certain precision and each lower level sub-divides those clusters. The clusters may be named based on the most salient facets that describe the for-sale items in the clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Mohammad-Mahdi Moazzami, Manikandan Sankar, Byong Mok Oh, Sahil Rishi, Sho Arora
  • Patent number: 12072249
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor that is able to efficiently identify a variety of motions made by a user. The sensor includes: a structure body configured to be deformable by an external force; an electrode configured to be disposed at an arbitrary position of the structure body; a determination unit configured to determine a contact state of an object with the structure body based on a change in impedance measured using the electrode; and an output unit configured to output a signal based on the contact state of the object with the structure body to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: MERCARI, INC., THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Ryosuke Yamamura, Yasuaki Kakehi, Keisuke Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240257151
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include moderating listings on an e-commerce site automatically and reporting to moderators. False positive reporting may be rejected using algorithms and filtering of reporting may be handled. Methods for moderating terms of service (ToS) violations may include receiving indications of a ToS violation, generating values corresponding to the ToS violation based on a machine learning (ML) model and the indications of the ToS violation. The vales may be evaluated to determine an actual ToS violation or false positives. The ML model may be updated based on the values and the indications of a ToS violation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Mercari, Inc.
    Inventors: Takuma YAMAGUCHI, Vishal KASHYAP, Kosuke ARASE
  • Patent number: 11928555
    Abstract: Provided is a system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory storage medium that hardly cause improper operations when a plurality of quantum processors is connected to configure a logical quantum bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventor: Shota Nagayama
  • Patent number: 11853958
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments for estimating shipping costs of items purchased on an online market. An embodiment operates by detecting a sales transaction between a seller and a buyer for an item via an online marketplace. An item vector representing the item as created by a deep learning model based on a plurality of characteristics associated with the item is received. A set of proximate vectors to the item vector, each of the proximate vectors corresponding to a past listings where a past shipping cost from shipping a product in the past listing is known are identified. A weighted average is calculated from the past shipping cost of each of the past listings. A dimensional weight of the item is estimated based on the weight average, and a shipping cost for the item is estimated based on the estimated dimensional weight prior to providing the item to a carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Mohammad-Mahdi Mozzami, Lawrence Cate, Masonori Uehara, Eric Turner, Robin Clark, Yu Ishikawa, Chiaki Osaka
  • Patent number: 11816686
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating sellability and cancellability scores for selling objects on an electronic marketplace. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a mobile device, an image including an object for sale and determining information associated with the object for sale. Information associated with pre-identified objects is determined from information associated with pre-identified objects, where each of the pre-identified objects corresponds to the object for sale. A sellability score and/or a cancellability score is generated based at least in part on the information associated with the object for sale and the information associated with the pre-identified objects. The sellability score and the cancellability score are further provided to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: John Alexander Lagerling, Kai Chun Cheung, Byong Mok Oh, Dhruv Mehrotra, Jeffrey Kenichiro Hara
  • Publication number: 20230274340
    Abstract: Provided herein are various embodiments for automating the creation of listings using augmented reality. An embodiment operates by identifying a template for a for sale object (FSO), selecting a first image of the one or more common images of the template, and determining a boundary of the first image. It is determined that a listing image of the FSO, through a camera of a computing device, is smaller than the boundary prior to taking the listing image through the camera, and instructions are provided to move the FSO to more closely align to the boundary. A command is provided to the camera to take the listing image of the FSO responsive to the detecting that the listing image of the FSO more closely aligns to the boundary. A listing for the FSO is generated using the listing image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Mercari, Inc.
    Inventor: Byong Mok OH
  • Patent number: 11734898
    Abstract: There is provided a program for causing an information processing terminal to execute a step of acquiring position information indicating a position of the information processing terminal, a step of transmitting the position information to an information processing apparatus, a step of receiving display data related to one or more products which is associated with the position information from the information processing apparatus, a step of acquiring a first region which satisfies a predetermined condition related to safety of a user, the first region being a region in an image taken by an image pickup unit, and a step of outputting the display data related to the one or more products to the acquired first region in a real space corresponding to the image or the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 11718361
    Abstract: To provide a moving device that can be used as a mobility device to transport objects and can be improved in portability. The moving device that is movable with rotation of wheels includes a body unit inflated by injection of fluid and deflated by discharge of the fluid, a support body provided on a predetermined surface of the body unit, and the wheels provided in the support body, wherein the interior of a predetermined portion of the body unit that receives a load from an object contacting the body unit is formed with a drop-stitch structure, and the drop-stitch structure after injection of the fluid has tensile forces in directions approximately perpendicular to the direction of the load applied to the predetermined portion by the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: MERCARI, INC., THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Ryosuke Yamamura, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Ryuma Niiyama, Hiroki Sato, Young ah Seong
  • Patent number: 11694242
    Abstract: There is provided a wearable terminal which is capable of performing a transaction using information about a product viewed by a user. A wearable terminal includes a capturing unit, a recognition unit for recognizing a first gesture of a user for specifying a product, in an image captured by the capturing unit, an acquisition unit for acquiring, in a case where the first gesture is recognized by the recognition unit, product information of the product specified using the image where the first gesture is recognized, an output control unit for controlling output of the product information in a manner allowing viewing by the user, and a processing unit for performing a predetermined process regarding an electronic transaction for the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 11694218
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments for automated intelligent price guidance of listings for a for sale object (FSO) being offered by a seller. Some embodiments may operate by: receiving information relating to the FSO, including specifications for selling the FSO, wherein the specifications include an original offer price and a time window for selling the FSO; determining a category of the FSO; generating an optimal offer price for the FSO based on one or more of: (a) past listings of previously sold FSOs that have a same or similar category of the FSO; (b) the specifications, including the time window; (c) a category decay curve applicable to the category; and (d) seller flexibility curve of the seller; and through the use of a machine learning neural networking analysis suggesting the optimal offer price to the seller as an offer price for a listing corresponding to the FSO, wherein this price is evaluated over time and suggestions are made accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Byong Mok Oh, Takuma Yamaguchi, Rishabh Kumar Shrivastava, Fritz Mikio Kuribayashi, John Alexander Lagerling, Minami Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11682068
    Abstract: Provided herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for using computer technology to automate the creation of consistent, high quality listings for selling “for sale objects” (FSO) on an ecommerce site. Some embodiments are configured to or operate by: identifying a category of a FSO; accessing templates for the category from a template database; navigating a user through a computer generated augmented reality (AR) environment using the templates to generate images of the FSO; analyzing one or more of the images to determine characteristics of the FSO; and generating a listing for the FSO using the images and the characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventor: Byong Mok Oh
  • Patent number: 11676187
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for the prediction of listing attributes for a for sale object (FSO). Data analyzed with respect to historical listings in a database is compared to attributes of the FSO using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), in order for the user to select a category related to the FSO, and for a listing generation module to generate a ultimately reduced set of listings related to the FSO, where the ultimately reduced set is used to predict a price for the FSO based on the selected category, and generate a listing for the FSO, wherein a listing for the FSO is monitored, and information from the monitoring is used as machine learning feedback to train and enhance predictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Mohammad-Mahdi Mozzami, Manikandan Sankar, Laura Furman, Dhruv Mehrotra
  • Patent number: 11651410
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for enhancing the experience for new sellers when creating listings are described. An embodiment operates by: enabling a new seller to create one or more new listings for an electronic marketplace (EM); determining that a number of the new listings satisfy a predetermined threshold; and enabling the new seller to acquire one or more for sale objects (FSOs) from associated eligible listing(s) on the EM at no or reduced cost. In an embodiment, the new seller is a user who has not previously sold a FSO on the EM, and the eligible listings are (1) listings having an offer price less than or equal to a predetermined maximum mice; and (2) listings by users who have not previously sold a FSO on the EM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Shida Schubert, John Lagerling, Dani Arnaout, Jihad Kawas
  • Patent number: 11651417
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments for intelligent listing creation for a for sale object (FSO). Some embodiments operate by determining a numerical identifier corresponding to a category of the FSO. A binarization of the numerical identifier using hot encoding is performed and using a neural network regression model, an optimal offer price is generated based on a category of the FSO. Information about the FSO is provided to the neural network regression model that tokenizes the textual input, and a unique binary vector representing the category is provided instead of the numerical identifier to the neural network regression model. An optimal price, generated by the neural network regression model, based on the unique binary vector representing the category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Byong Mok Oh, Takuma Yamaguchi, Rishabh Kumar Shrivastava, Fritz Mikio Kuribayashi, John Alexander Lagerling, Minami Tanaka