Abstract: In one aspect, a computerized method for implementing a hair-service based digital image search engine and ranking comprising the step of providing a hair-service search engine, wherein the hair-service search engine receives a digitalized hair-style portfolio from a hair stylist. The hair-style portfolio comprises a set of hair-style digital images. The set of hair-style digital images comprises one or more views of a set of hair-stylist customers. The method receives a set of tags for each hair-style digital image of set of hair-style digital images. Each tag comprises a hair-style descriptor of the hair style depicted in the hair-style digital image. The method receives a hair stylist contact information. The method stores the digitalized hair-style portfolio, the set of tags and the hair stylist contact information in a digitalized hair-style portfolio database; receives a hair-style search from a user. The method parses the hair-style search ad generating a set of terms.

Abstract: A system can include one or more processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform a method for determining one or more substitutes for a product requested in an inquiry from a user. The method comprises one or more of the steps including receiving an inquiry from a user, which comprises a requested product; extracting one or more attributes of the requested product based on the inquiry; determining a context of the inquiry; and determining one or more substitutes for the requested product from an inventory database based on a distance between the requested product and each substitute of the one or more substitutes, as projected in a product graph relating to a domain of the requested product and the context of the inquiry.

Abstract: A system can include one or more processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform a method for determining one or more substitutes for a product requested in an inquiry from a user and the order of the one or more substitutes to be transmitted to the user.

Abstract: A product sales system utilizing the product purchase history, product of interest, and customer review of an acquaintance, the product sales system includes: a former purchaser terminal configured to receive a customer review for a purchased product from a former purchaser and to register the customer review with a product sales server; a prospective purchaser terminal configured to connect with the product sales server, to select a product to be purchased, to receive an acquaintance customer review from the product sales server, and to display the acquaintance customer review; and the product sales server configured to register and store the customer review, to determine information about an acquaintance of the prospective purchaser who desires to purchase the selected product to be purchased, to extract an acquaintance customer review and to transmit the acquaintance customer review to the prospective purchaser terminal.

Abstract: Methods for product ordering relating to an automation system are described. Exemplary methods may include receiving one or more inputs, identifying one or more product order-related parameters, receiving information related to a product order, determining delivery data based at least in part on the information, and initiating an automation system operation based at least in part on the delivery data.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining a reward associated with one or more transactions of a user may comprise obtaining travel data of the user via a device associated with the user, wherein the travel data includes travel dates of the user; obtaining, via one or more processors, exchange rate data based on the travel data of the user; determining, via the one or more processors, a value of the reward associated with the one or more transactions of the user during the travel dates based on the exchange rate data; transmitting, to the user, a notification indicative of the reward associated with the one or more transactions; and causing the reward associated with the one or more transactions to be directed to a financial account associated with the user.

Abstract: A computing system includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to receive a pending purchase order from a user device in response to a selection of an interactive element presented on a payment page of an online store via the user device, the pending purchase order corresponding to a purchase of a good or service from the online store and including payment information, store the payment information in an escrow database for a window of time, generate a notification corresponding to the pending purchase order, the notification including information corresponding to the good or service and excluding the payment information, and transmit the notification to a merchant system associated with the online store to reserve the good or service during pendency of the window of time.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an item recommendation method and system based on a user intention in a conversation session. In this method, a current conversation session is encoded by use of items of prior time sequence and the last item so as to generate an accurate conversation session representation which is then used to perform initial item prediction as a user intention. Afterwards, an intention-guided neighbor detector is used to locate an accurate neighbor conversation session. Finally, the current conversation session and the neighbor conversation session representations are combined adaptively by a gated mixed layer to generate the final item recommendation, so as to effectively improve the accuracy of item recommendation.

Abstract: A method of accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by a user on different website domains includes providing a first embedded code on a first website domain and a second embedded code on a second website domain in which the first website domain is different from said second website domain. Each of the embedded codes allows a specified third party server to communicate interactively with the user. The method further includes automatically accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by the user in a database on the specified third party server, wherein the personalized list includes at least a first product and a second product, wherein the first product is on the first website domain and the second product is on the second website domain.

Abstract: A method begins with a server recording conditions for an exchange item. The method continues with the server determining whether a corresponding condition of the exchange item is compliant with one or more rules of an applicable set of rules. When the corresponding condition of the exchange item is compliant with the one or more rules, the method continues with the server establishing a secure communication with a computing device affiliated with a current owner to take control of the exchange item. While having control over the exchange item, the server securely modifies a quantifiable value of the exchange item based on the one or more rules to produce a modified exchange item and prevents the computing device or another computing device from accessing the exchange item. The method continues with the server releasing control of the modified exchange item to the computing device affiliated with the current owner.

Abstract: A system for purchasing one or more products is provided. The system includes a local device for retrieving identification information and a remote server connected with the local device, an order management system connected with the remote server, and an order fulfillment system connected with the order management system to fulfill the order by obtaining and delivering the product to the user. Upon receiving the identification information at the local device, the local device automatically forwards the identification information along with a unique identifier to a remote server. The remote server generates and delivers the website containing information about the product to the local device. The local device is in communication with an order creation application. The product is automatically placed in a virtual shopping cart of the order creation application for purchase by the user.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system are disclosed for compiling a virtual transaction for a person within an environment having a plurality of items. The method includes acquiring, using at least one visual sensor, first image information including a person. The method further includes identifying the at least one person from the first image information by classifying the person into a class. The method also includes acquiring second image information including the person and an item. The method further includes identifying a behavior of the person relative to the item, and updating, based on the identified behavior, the virtual transaction.

Abstract: A method and system for replacing a hardware device is provided. The method includes detecting current utilization attributes of an Internet of things (IOT) device connected to a server device through a network. Recommended utilization attributes of the IOT device are retrieved and analyzed with respect to the current utilization attributes. It is determined that the current utilization attributes do not equal a threshold value associated with the recommended utilization attributes and optimal utilization attributes for replacing the IOT device are determined. A network based search for locating a replacement IOT device is executed and associated results are presented to a user. A resulting process for securing the replacement device is executed.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide devices, methods, and computer-readable storage media for determining information of an object from a captured image. Further, the disclosed device responds to a user input by capturing, with the camera, image data representing an object. The device then transmits, via a messaging application through a network interface to a server, the image data and a request for information relating to the object. The object information is received via the messaging application through the network from the server and is displayed on the display screen.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes generating a query based on a seed product offer that describes a product being offered for sale and executing the query, using a search engine that normalizes search terms in the query, on a plurality of product offers to determine candidate offers. The candidate offers are likely associated with the product. The method further includes determining one or more common attribute values across corresponding attributes of the candidate offers. The method additionally includes for each attribute value of each candidate offer, scoring the attribute value based on whether it matches one or more of the common attribute values, and updating a set of normalized attribute values for the product to include the attribute value based on whether the score is greater than a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a set of normalized attribute values that define a particular item being offered and a corresponding threshold score for each of the normalized attribute values. The method further includes, for each attribute value of a candidate item listing, determining a score for the attribute value based on whether it matches a corresponding normalized attribute value, and determining whether the score is above or below the corresponding threshold score for the normalized attribute value. The method still further includes determining whether the candidate item listing describes the particular item being offered based on a set of rules that define an acceptable number of scores that are allowed to be below the threshold scores.

Abstract: Custom creation of wall decor using a device configured to display an interactive wall art environment. The interactive wall art environment incorporates a user photo of a furnished room, including a background wall and a scaled image of the furniture in the room, and a curated layout of items displayed in proportion to the scaled image of the furniture to simulate the appearance of the wall art in the furnished room. The user can alter the wall art environment as desired, including selecting a custom wall color and a predefined image of furniture to simulate a furnished room instead of using the photo of the furnished room. The display of the interactive wall art environment includes displaying the cost of purchasing the customized items in the curated layout and linking to a shopping interface for transacting the purchase.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes extracting a document object model (DOM) for a content page, wherein the DOM comprises a hierarchical tree-based data structure. The method also includes identifying candidate nodes in the DOM based on a context of the nodes, wherein the candidate nodes may correspond to listing items. The method additionally includes for each of the candidate nodes, locating its parent and child nodes by traversing the DOM from the candidate node, extracting information from the candidate node and its parent and child nodes, and assessing whether the candidate node qualifies as a listing item based on whether the extracted information fulfills a required set of characteristics for a listing item.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for identifying a set of images of child variants of a parent item, identifying a set of colors in the set of images, categorizing the set of colors into color subgroups, identifying a set of representative color(s) for the color subgroups, generating a color value distribution representation for an image of a child variant that indicates a respective number of pixels in the child variant image corresponding to each of one or more representative colors, identifying a color cluster in the color value distribution representation, scoring the color cluster, and selecting a particular color from the color cluster for inclusion in a sample image of the child variant if the color cluster score meets or exceeds a threshold value.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes extracting a document object model (DOM) for a content page. The DOM comprises a hierarchical tree-based data structure. The method also includes traversing the DOM to identify, in the content page, candidate features of a product page. The method further includes for each of the candidate features, determine candidate feature attributes based on a respective context of the candidate feature in the DOM. The method additionally includes determining whether the content page qualifies as a product page based on whether the candidate features fulfill a required set of characteristics for a product page.