Patents by Inventor John LAGERLING
John LAGERLING 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).
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Publication number: 20260080445Abstract: Various embodiments for a transport dispatch system for marketplace curve sales transaction system are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a seller, an indication to sell a for sale item through an electronic marketplace. An item curve for the for sale item and a seller curve for the seller are generated. A sales curve is generated for the for sale item based on modifying the seller curve for the for sale item based on the item curve. A display of the sales curve is provided for the for sale item and an approval is received via a user interface. The electronic marketplace is monitored based on the approved sales curve, and the for sale item is sold for the seller based on a correspondence between the list price of the for sale item and a bid price.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2025Publication date: March 19, 2026Applicant: MERCARI, INC.Inventors: Colin SMITH, John LAGERLING, Carlo BESOZZI
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Patent number: 12469059Abstract: Various embodiments for a transport dispatch system for marketplace curve sales transaction system are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a seller, an indication to sell a for sale item through an electronic marketplace. An item curve for the for sale item and a seller curve for the seller are generated. A sales curve is generated for the for sale item based on modifying the seller curve for the for sale item based on the item curve. A display of the sales curve is provided for the for sale item and an approval is received via a user interface. The electronic marketplace is monitored based on the approved sales curve, and the for sale item is sold for the seller based on a correspondence between the list price of the for sale item and a bid price.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 11, 2025Assignee: MERCARI, INC.Inventors: Colin Smith, John Lagerling, Carlo Besozzi
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Publication number: 20250232344Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2025Publication date: July 17, 2025Applicant: Mercari, Inc.Inventors: Shida SCHUBERT, John Lagerling
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Patent number: 12361441Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing inventory ingestion and pricing system. An embodiment operates by determining an identification of a for sale object to be sold on an electronic marketplace. A set of items similar to the identification of the for sale object are identified from the marketplace. A price of each of at least a subset of the set of similar items that have sold through the electronic marketplace is determined. A sale price is generated for the for sale object based on the determined prices of the items of the subset. An image for one or more of the subset of items, is retrieved from the electronic marketplace. A market descriptor comprising the sale price and the retrieved one or more images is generated. The market descriptor for display is provided for display.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2023Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: MERCARI, INC.Inventors: Shida Schubert, John Lagerling
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Patent number: 12271935Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: MERCARI, INC.Inventors: Shida Schubert, John Lagerling
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Publication number: 20240062274Abstract: Various embodiments for a transport dispatch system for marketplace curve purchase transaction system are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving an indication to buy a desired item from a buyer through an electronic marketplace. An item curve for the desired item and a buyer curve for the buyer are generated. A purchase curve for the desired item is generated based on modifying the buyer curve based on the item curve, the item curve indicating a demand for the item. A display of the purchase curve is provided via a user interface, through which an approval of the purchase curve is received. The desired item is monitored across the electronic marketplace and purchased for the buyer based on the approved purchase curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: COLIN SMITH, JOHN LAGERLING, CARLO BESOZZI
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Publication number: 20240062261Abstract: Various embodiments for a transport dispatch system for marketplace curve sales transaction system are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a seller, an indication to sell a for sale item through an electronic marketplace. An item curve for the for sale item and a seller curve for the seller are generated. A sales curve is generated for the for sale item based on modifying the seller curve for the for sale item based on the item curve. A display of the sales curve is provided for the for sale item and an approval is received via a user interface. The electronic marketplace is monitored based on the approved sales curve, and the for sale item is sold for the seller based on a correspondence between the list price of the for sale item and a bid price.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: COLIN SMITH, JOHN LAGERLING, CARLO BESOZZI
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Publication number: 20230245155Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing inventory ingestion and pricing system. An embodiment operates by determining an identification of a for sale object to be sold on an electronic marketplace. A set of items similar to the identification of the for sale object are identified from the marketplace. A price of each of at least a subset of the set of similar items that have sold through the electronic marketplace is determined. A sale price is generated for the for sale object based on the determined prices of the items of the subset. An image for one or more of the subset of items, is retrieved from the electronic marketplace. A market descriptor comprising the sale price and the retrieved one or more images is generated. The market descriptor for display is provided for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Shida SCHUBERT, John LAGERLING
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Patent number: 11651410Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: MERCARI, INC.Inventors: Shida Schubert, John Lagerling, Dani Arnaout, Jihad Kawas
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Patent number: 11631096Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing inventory ingestion and pricing system. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a mobile device, an image including an object for sale. It is determined that an electronic marketplace includes one or more images of pre-identified objects that have sold. The object from the image is identified based on a comparison of the received image with the images of the one or more of the pre-identified objects from the electronic marketplace. From the electronic marketplace, the price for each of a subset of the one or more of the pre-identified objects that have sold is determined. A sale price for the object for sale is generated based on the determined prices. The sale price for the object for sale is provided to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: MERCARI, INC.Inventors: Shida Schubert, John Lagerling
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Publication number: 20220277370Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Shida SCHUBERT, John LAGERLING
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Patent number: 11341550Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Mercari, Inc.Inventors: Shida Schubert, John Lagerling
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Publication number: 20200234326Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, device, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for temporal disposition of offers based on decay curves. In an embodiment, a server comprises: a plurality of listings associated with categories; a decay curve database storing a plurality of category decay curves and a plurality of user decay curves; and at least one processor configured to: monitor user activity of the server; and generate the category decay curves and the user decay curves using the monitored user activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: Mercari, Inc.Inventor: John LAGERLING
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Publication number: 20200160422Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Shida Schubert, John LAGERLING, Dani ARNAOUT, Jihad KAWAS
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Publication number: 20200104893Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Shida Schubert, John LAGERLING
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Publication number: 20200104868Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing inventory ingestion and pricing system. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a mobile device, an image including an object for sale. It is determined that an electronic marketplace includes one or more images of pre-identified objects that have sold. The object from the image is identified based on a comparison of the received image with the images of the one or more of the pre-identified objects from the electronic marketplace. From the electronic marketplace, the price for each of a subset of the one or more of the pre-identified objects that have sold is determined. A sale price for the object for sale is generated based on the determined prices. The sale price for the object for sale is provided to the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Shida SCHUBERT, John LAGERLING