Abstract: A user may request a recommendation for an item from other users. Other users may respond to the request by recommending for or against items. Users may up-vote or down-vote the recommendations or responses of other users. The recommendations of the other users may be used to identify items and provide one or more recommendations to the requesting user. The original question and the responses may form a conversation thread. The recommendations may be inserted into the thread as responses, may be presented alongside the thread, or may be presented at the end of the thread. The recommendations may be based on one or more attributes of the user. The weight of the recommendations provided by other users may vary.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for automating product identification is provided. The method includes receiving from users, permission to identify and monitor items associated with the users. Local devices located at a first geographical location are detected in response to receiving permission and identification data identifying each device is stored. A user and a user device are detected arriving at the first geographical location and communications between the user device and the local devices are established. The identification data and associated metadata describing the local devices is retrieved and the user and the user device are detected arriving at a second geographical location. A request for locating a specified item is received. In response, the identification data and associated metadata is analyzed and resulting network search results including a list of items and associated descriptions associated with the request are presented to the user.

Abstract: Managing of constraint-based violations in a Product Data Management (PDM) environment is provided. A method for managing constraint-based violations associated with a product in a PDM system includes obtaining a set of constraints defined for a product from a product database. Constraints that are conflicting with requirement data associated with the product are determined from the set of constraints, and the constraints are grouped into a plurality of logical groups. Each of the logical groups is associated with an independent violation. One or more solutions corresponding to each independent violation are computed based on the logical groups, and conflicts between the constraints and the requirement data corresponding to each independent violation based on the corresponding one or more solutions are resolved.

Abstract: An auto-styler device may provide a style-based or outfit-driven shopping experience. The auto-styler device may select a style definition that defines a style-conforming outfit based on rules that apply to a combination of a first item type and a second item type of the style-conforming outfit, and that defines a customized presentation for the style-conforming outfit. The auto-styler device may generate a style-conforming outfit with a first item of the first item type and a second item of the second item type in response to a collective style produced by the combination satisfying the rules. The auto-styler device may position and size a first image of the first item relative to a second image of the second item in a single interface based on the specified the customized presentation of the style definition, and may present or publish the resulting single interface on a merchant site.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing articles of footwear that includes steps of providing articles to a customer, receiving evaluations of one or more structural characteristics of the articles and making new customized articles for the customer based on the evaluations of one or more structural characteristics. The method can be conducted as a cycle that is repeated each time the customer buys a new pair of footwear.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for purchasing, accessing, consuming, and/or providing electronic content using an electronic bookshelf (eBookshelf) system. The eBookshelf system can be used by accessing a touchscreen-based user interface and/or local hardware controls and/or a remote control. A user's personal library of eBooks and/or any other electronic content can be displayed and/or aurally presented. In addition, the vast content of commercial retailers can also be displayed for browsing and purchase/rental. If the user identifies a content selection on the eBookshelf system that he/she wishes to consume, it can be readily transferred from the system to a personal content consuming device. Multiple eBookshelf systems can be attached to one another to extend the length and/or height of the eBookshelf. Accessing the eBookshelf system by a user ID allows multiple users to enjoy a personally customized version of the system.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining, from a first computing device, a request to establish a communications session between the first computing device and a second computing device to initiate a virtual try-on session for a first user of the first computing device. The method proceeds with establishing the communications session between these computing devices, where the communications session is configured to enable the virtual try-on session to be simultaneously viewed on user interfaces of both devices. Further, the method includes receiving, from the first computing device, a selection of items for presentation on a first user graphical representation. In response to this selection, the user interfaces are simultaneously updated to present these items on the first user graphical representation. The method further includes obtaining, from the second computing device, feedback on these items from a second user and updating both user interfaces in accordance with this feedback.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based environment includes a system to connect systems over a voice communication connection, create a record associated with the voice communication connection, initiate a request over the voice communication connection, and provide a confirmation of the request upon completing the request over the communication connection.

Abstract: A system for executing actions based on user input is provided. The system comprises a virtual agent for a software application, wherein the virtual agent is configured to store a correlation between actions available in the software application. Further, the system associates one or more of the actions with one or more tags. The system receives at least an audio input from a user of the software application, and uses the input to identify an action desired by the user to be performed among the actions. Further, the system executes one or more actions based on the desired action and the correlation between the actions available in the software application.

Abstract: A payment object service receives a request from a giver to associate a payment amount to an object. The request includes one or more images of the object and recipient information, which the payment object service uses to determine whether the association between these images and the information is unique. If the association is unique, the payment object service updates a database to associate the payment amount to the object and enable redemption of the payment amount. When the payment object service receives a request to redeem at least a portion of the payment amount, the payment object service may use one or more images and recipient information obtained from the request to verify that the images and information together correspond to the object. Once the redemption is complete, the payment object service may update the database to specify the current remaining payment amount.

Abstract: Product planning techniques are provided that recommend compositions of product features for weighted heterogeneous consumer segments using regression trees. An exemplary method comprises obtaining historical consumer data comprising product preferences for existing product items for multiple consumer segments; obtaining product features indicating characteristics for each existing product item; prioritizing the consumer segments by obtaining a weight indicating an interest in each consumer segment; computing a total performance metric, for each product item, by calculating a dot product between the consumer segment weights and respective preferences of the consumer segments regarding a given product item; obtaining a regression tree from the existing product items to predict the total performance metric in terms of corresponding product features; and selecting a combination of the product features to be used in future product items based on identified paths in the regression tree.

Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to configuring a reel containing one or more circuits of a conductor. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies, a request to create a circuit to be installed on the reel is received. In addition, configurations associated with the circuit are received.

Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for user specific data distribution of crowd-sourced data. A user may provide data indicative of an item the user may wish to purchase, for example, through browsing history, entry of the item to a transaction, or other information. A community of users associated with the user, which may include the user or other known or nearby users, may provide real-time data collected by their devices of information that may be relevant to purchase of the item. The information may be passively or actively collected by components of devices for their devices, and may be crowd-sourced so that the community of users may elect to release the information and receive rewards by virtue of their data sharing. The information may be processed to determine a recommendation for purchase, which may be output through a commonly used communication platform for the user.

Abstract: The subject disclosure relates systems and methods for making upgrade recommendations, such as recommendations for version upgrades to a purchasable media-content item. A process of implementing the subject technology can include steps for authenticating a user associated, identifying affiliates of the user, wherein the affiliates are associated with the user via a social network or online gaming platform, receiving a user selection of a content item, and identifying an upgrade version of the content item, wherein the upgrade version is associated with a second version identifier and a second price indicator. In some aspects, the process can further include steps for providing a recommendation to the user, wherein the recommendation indicates the upgrade version of the content item and the second price indicator. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.

Abstract: An article of footwear includes an upper and a sole structure with a sole member. The sole member can be manufactured using a system that modifies the heel cushioning of the sole member over a series of footwear purchases. The modifications can be configured to correspond to a customer's evaluation of the heel cushioning previously purchased. The sole member can include a set of apertures that are formed along various surfaces of the sole member to adjust the cushioning characteristics of the sole member.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a candidate product in an electronic marketplace based on a visual comparison between candidate product image visual text content and input query image visual text content. Unlike conventional optical character recognition (OCR) based systems, embodiments automatically localize and isolate portions of a candidate product image and an input query image that each contain visual text content, and calculate a visual similarity measure between the respective portions. A trained neural network may be re-trained to more effectively find visual text content by using the localized and isolated visual text content portions as additional ground truths. The visual similarity measure serves as a visual search result score for the candidate product. Any number of images of any number of candidate products may be compared to an input query image to enable text-in-image based product searching without resorting to conventional OCR techniques.

Abstract: A method for providing third party feedback associated with a real estate property including receiving buyer feedback regarding a real estate property from a handheld device operating the real estate feedback application; and providing third party feedback based on the buyer feedback from a third party feedback application.

Abstract: Various embodiments determine a sale price of an item via a smart price tag associated with the item. In one embodiment, the smart price tag is detected as being shaken. Responsive to detecting the smart price tag as being shaken, a request for a current sale price of the item for sale is sent to a back end price server. The current sale price of the item for sale is received from the back end price server and displayed for a predetermined period of time. The current sale price may be displayed on the smart price tag or a separate display sign. The current price is displayed until expiration of a predetermined period of time unless a lock request is detected which locks the price of the item for sale at the current sale price. If a price unlock button is pressed, the sale price of the item is unlocked.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein, which utilize a combination of batch-processing and on-demand processing to provide recommendations, can include database(s) that store client data, item data, and executable code for composable algorithms that utilize the client data and/or the item data to provide recommendations. The system also includes a batch-process results data store that stores results of composable algorithms executed using batch-processing. Additionally, the system includes an algorithm engine that accepts calls to composable algorithms and output results thereof. The algorithm engine determines which called composable algorithms are designated as being executable using batch-processing, and which are designated as being executable using on-demand processing.

Abstract: A method to provide feedback associated with a real estate property including providing access to a subject real estate property via a system including at least a listing recommendation server that communicates with a real estate feedback application; receiving feedback regarding the subject real estate property from a handheld device operating the real estate feedback application; determining comparable properties in response to the feedback on the subject real estate property.