Patents by Inventor Christopher Michael Matthews

Christopher Michael Matthews has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230376973
    Abstract: Fingerprinting physical items to mint NFTs is described. One or more features of a physical item are captured using a fingerprint capture system of a client device, and a fingerprint of the physical item is generated using the captured features of the physical item. The fingerprint of the physical item is provided to an authentication service to verify that the physical item corresponds to an authentic physical item by matching the fingerprint of the physical item to distinguishing features of the authentic physical item. Responsive to verification by the authentication service, a digital twin NFT is minted on a blockchain using the matched fingerprint. A combined listing for the physical item and the digital twin NET is then generated on a listing platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon Bruce Vosseller, Christopher Michael Matthews, Andrew Chalkley, Paul Telis Stathacopoulos
  • Patent number: 11756047
    Abstract: Fingerprinting physical items to mint NFTs is described. One or more features of a physical item are captured using a fingerprint capture system of a client device, and a fingerprint of the physical item is generated using the captured features of the physical item. The fingerprint of the physical item is provided to an authentication service to verify that the physical item corresponds to an authentic physical item by matching the fingerprint of the physical item to distinguishing features of the authentic physical item. Responsive to verification by the authentication service, a digital twin NFT is minted on a blockchain using the matched fingerprint. A combined listing for the physical item and the digital twin NET is then generated on a listing platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon Bruce Vosseller, Christopher Michael Matthews, Andrew Chalkley, Paul Telis Stathacopoulos
  • Publication number: 20230109574
    Abstract: Fingerprinting physical items to mint NFTs is described. One or more features of a physical item are captured using a fingerprint capture system of a client device, and a fingerprint of the physical item is generated using the captured features of the physical item. The fingerprint of the physical item is provided to an authentication service to verify that the physical item corresponds to an authentic physical item by matching the fingerprint of the physical item to distinguishing features of the authentic physical item. Responsive to verification by the authentication service, a digital twin NFT is minted on a blockchain using the matched fingerprint. A combined listing for the physical item and the digital twin NET is then generated on a listing platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon Bruce Vosseller, Christopher Michael Matthews, Andrew Chalkley, Paul Telis Stathacopoulos
  • Publication number: 20230108983
    Abstract: Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to provide digital content to users through use of nonfungible tokens (NFTs). This is performed by leveraging a blockchain such that digital content associated with an item is made available to encourage the user to interact with NFTs on the service provider platform (e.g., discounts, NFT listing functionality, automatic initiation of NFT transfers, and so forth) based on a user's possession of the NFT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon Bruce Vosseller, Christopher Michael Matthews
  • Publication number: 20230092012
    Abstract: Adding additional value to NFTs is described. An association of a non-fungible token (NET) with a user account is verified based on an address of a digital wallet that corresponds to the user account and that is encoded into the NET stored on a blockchain. After verifying the association of the NET with the user account, a condition relative to the NET is detected. Responsive to detecting the condition, ownership of an earned item is conferred to the user account. An NFT collection is formed by digitally bundling the NFT and the earned item, and a listing of the NFT collection is generated for the user account. The listing specifies that the NFT collection includes both the NFT and the earned item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Matthews, Andrew Chalkley, Paul Telis Stathacopoulos
  • Publication number: 20230073859
    Abstract: Listing NFTs associated with physical items is described. Input specifying at least one obligation to be performed as a condition for transferring an NET from a first digital wallet to a second digital wallet is received. A listing for the NFT is then generated with information that describes the NET and the at least one obligation. A smart contract template is also generated, which includes instructions that are configured to ensure performance of the at least one obligation and transfer the NET from the first digital wallet to the second digital wallet. Responsive to purchase of the NFT via the listing, a smart contract is generated by updating the smart contract template with an identifier of the second digital wallet, and the NFT is transferred by executing the smart contract using a distributed state machine implemented on a blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Matthews, Andrew Chalkley
  • Publication number: 20230062776
    Abstract: Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to control access to digital content through use of nonfungible tokens (NFTs). This is performed by leveraging a blockchain such that digital content associated with an item is made available to supplement use of the item (e.g., to supplement use of a physical item, digital content, and so forth) or make other functionality available based on a user's possession of the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon Bruce Vosseller, Christopher Michael Matthews
  • Patent number: 11314791
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and computer-implemented methods for providing suggestions of additional input to users entering user input into a data input field. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving initial user input entered via a data input field of a user interface rendered on a client device, and identifying a dominant category corresponding to the initial user input. The method further includes identifying a set of aspects corresponding to the dominant category, and selecting, from the set of aspects, a set of aspect suggestions based on a ranking of each aspect in the set of aspects. The method further includes causing display of a suggestion box presented in conjunction with the data input field. The suggestion box comprises a presentation of the set of aspect suggestions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Vikas Singh, Srinivasan Varippyreddy, Pramodh Pochu, Sushma Sharma, Kavya Mugadur, Christopher Michael Matthews, Konstantin Orlov, Michele Vospette-Kraemer, Margaret MacDonald, Xia Kristine Song
  • Publication number: 20170277770
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and computer-implemented methods for providing suggestions of additional input to users entering user input into a data input field. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving initial user input entered via a data input field of a user interface rendered on a client device, and identifying a dominant category corresponding to the initial user input. The method further includes identifying a set of aspects corresponding to the dominant category, and selecting, from the set of aspects, a set of aspect suggestions based on a ranking of each aspect in the set of aspects. The method further includes causing display of a suggestion box presented in conjunction with the data input field. The suggestion box comprises a presentation of the set of aspect suggestions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Vikas Singh, Srinivasan Varippyreddy, Pramodh Pochu, Sushma Sharma, Kavya Mugadur, Christopher Michael Matthews, Konstantin Orlov, Michele Vospette-Kraemer, Margaret MacDonald, Xia Kristine Song
  • Publication number: 20140324626
    Abstract: A view item page that is descriptive of a current item may be displayed in response to a request to view a description of the current item. The view item page may include a control that is operable to display recommendations of further items similar to the current item that is described in the view item page. Upon detecting that a user has operated the control included in the view item page, the recommendations of the further items may be generated based on the current item described in the view item page. Moreover, the generated recommendations may be presented to the user that operated the control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Jonas Oscar Klink, Jason Allen Fletchall, Linh Nhat Vu Tran, Christopher Michael Matthews