Patents by Inventor Neelakantan Sundaresan

Neelakantan Sundaresan 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).

  • Patent number: 10218751
    Abstract: A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for providing recommendations based on social network sharing activity. Sharing activity relating to the sharing of the content item on a social network by a first user is accessed. Consumption information related to the consumption of the content item. A correlation between the sharing activity and the consumption information is determined. A recommendation is then generated based on the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Neelakantan Sundaresan, Atish Das Sarma, Si Si, Elizabeth Churchill
  • Publication number: 20190057428
    Abstract: Techniques for mapping size information associated with a client to target brands, garments, sizes, shapes, and styles for which there is no standardized correlation. The size information associated with a client may be generated by modeling client garments, accessing computer aided drawing (CAD) files associated with client garments, or by analyzing a history of garment purchases associated with the client. Information for target garments may be generated in a similar fashion. A system may then create a standardized scale with a set of sizes for a target, and map a client base size to that standardized size scale. Similar matching and mapping may also be done with shape and style considerations. A recommendation based on the mapping may then be communicated to the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Su, Mihir Naware, Jatin Chhugani, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Publication number: 20190057421
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method is illustrated including receiving a feedback request identifying a particular user, retrieving a feedback entry in response to the feedback request, the feedback entry containing a first term, building a scoring model based, in part, upon a term frequency count denoting a frequency with which the first term appears in a searchable data structure, mapping the first term to a graphical illustration based upon a second term associated with the graphical illustration such that the graphical illustration may be used to represent the second term, and generating a feedback page containing the first term and the graphical illustration. The method may include assigning a value to the first term so as to identify the first term, assigning the first term to the searchable data structure, and extracting the first term from the searchable data structure based, in part, upon an extraction rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Neelakantan Sundaresan, Kavita Ganesan, Harshal Ulhas Deo
  • Publication number: 20190050923
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for social shopping on a network-based marketplace. The system receives a selection, over a network, at a social shopping platform. The selection identifies a request from a user in a first community of users and is associated with a listing describing an item for sale. The social shopping platform includes multiple network-based marketplaces respectively associated with communities. The communities include the first community of users being associated with a first network-based marketplace. The system identifies the first network-based marketplace based on the request. The first network-based marketplace is used by the first community of users for transacting items of a single domain. Finally, the system updates a user reputation score based on the activity associated with the first network-based marketplace and presents second user interface information, over the network, including the listing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventor: Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10204375
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a digital wardrobe are presented herein. A transceiver can be configured to receive a request having a garment identifier and a user identifier. Additionally, an access module can be configured to access a first garment model, access a body model of the user corresponding to the user identifier, and access a second garment model corresponding to the user identifier. Furthermore, a processor can be configured by a garment simulation module to position the body model inside the first garment model and the second garment model, and calculate simulated forces based on the positioning. Moreover, a rendering module can be configured to generate an image of the garment models draped on the body model based on the calculated simulated forces. Subsequently, a display module can be configured to cause presentation of the generated image on a display of a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Su, Jatin Chhugani, Mihir Naware, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Publication number: 20190043100
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method and system for interest based communities are disclosed. A community is accessed within a networked system. The community includes community content and a group of users of the networked system with a similar interest. The community content is related to the similar interest and available for viewing by the group of users. The community content is maintained for access within the networked system. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventor: Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Publication number: 20190035179
    Abstract: Systems and methods to fit an image of an inventory part are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving images of items over a computer network from a server, capturing a live video image of an object using a camera, playing the live video of the object on an electronic display, and continually refitting an image of a first item from the received images of items to the object as the object changes perspective in the video by applying an affine transformation to the image of the first item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Anurag Bhardwaj, Robinson Piramuthu, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10192249
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based interaction environment includes a plurality of peer-to-peer nodes being able to communicate directly with each other using a peer-to-peer protocol and a peer-to-peer client application, and a first peer-to-peer client application to maintain persistent item information on at least one peer-to-peer node of the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes, the persistent information describing to an item. The first peer-to-peer client application further to maintain persistent user account information in the storage device of the first peer-to-peer node that includes a plurality of peer-to-peer accounts associated with a user account of the first peer-to-peer node. Each peer-to-peer account is assigned to a different role from among a plurality of roles that correspond to a different particular operation in a transaction for the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Zahid N. Ahmed, Adrian Nicholas Cockcroft, Josep M. Ferrandiz, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10185899
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to adjust item recommendations are disclosed herein. A first image attribute of a query image is compared to a second image attribute of each of a plurality of inventory images of a plurality of inventory items to identify the inventory items similar to the query image. Item recommendations comprising the identified inventory items in a first listing order are provided for display at a remote device. A second listing order of the identified inventory items is determined based on a user preference for a particular one of the identified inventory items. At least the second listing order is provided to the remote device for re-display of the item recommendations in accordance with the second listing order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Anurag Bhardwaj, Robinson Piramuthu, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10176510
    Abstract: A system receives item data describing one or more items added to an item list by a user. The item list may include one or more items. The system communicates the item list to a group of additional users designated by the user and the system then receives member data from one or more members of the group of additional user, wherein the member data is about the one or more items in the item list. The item list is then updated based on the received member data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10147124
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for social shopping on a network-based marketplace. The methods and systems are for receiving a request, over a network, at a social shopping platform. The methods and systems are further for identifying a first network-based marketplace from the plurality of network-based marketplaces based on the request, the request including an activity associated with the first network-based marketplace, the first network-based marketplace being used by the first community of users for transacting items of a single domain, the activity identifying a first logical row of listing information in a listing table based on the request, the listing table being a logical table comprised of a plurality of logical rows . . . and logical columns. The methods and systems are further for updating a listing reputation score based on the activity associated with the first network-based marketplace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Publication number: 20180330425
    Abstract: A system receives item data corresponding to an item list from a user. The item list may include one or more items. The system communicates the item list to a community group associated with the user and the system then receives member data from one or more members of the community group, wherein the member data is associated with the one or more items on the item list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10127583
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method is illustrated including receiving a feedback request identifying a particular user, retrieving a feedback entry in response to the feedback request, the feedback entry containing a first term, building a scoring model based, in part, upon a term frequency count denoting a frequency with which the first term appears in a searchable data structure, mapping the first term to a graphical illustration based upon a second term associated with the graphical illustration such that the graphical illustration may be used to represent the second term, and generating a feedback page containing the first term and the graphical illustration. The method may include assigning a value to the first term so as to identify the first term, assigning the first term to the searchable data structure, and extracting the first term from the searchable data structure based, in part, upon an extraction rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Neelakantan Sundaresan, Kavita Ganesan, Harshal Ulhas Deo
  • Patent number: 10115109
    Abstract: A system to determine a first reputation value for a first user associated with a transaction with a second user first determines a weighted value based on one or more user transaction attributes. The user transaction attributes may be associated with at least one of the first user and the second user. Next the system calculates the first reputation value for the first user as a function of a first current reputation value of the first user and the weighted value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10115248
    Abstract: Systems and methods to fit an image of an inventory part are described. The system receives, over a network, a selection that identities a part type and further receives, over the network, an image of a vehicle. The system antomatically identifies an image of a first inventory part based on the selection of the part type and the image of the vehicle. The system automatically positions two boundaries of a rectangle over the image of the vehicle based on the part type, the rectangle including an image of a first vehicle part. The system fits the image of the first inventory part over the image of the first vehicle part based on the rectangle. The system communicates, over the network, a user interface including the image of the vehicle including the image of the first inventory part fitted over the image of the first vehicle part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Anurag Bhardwaj, Robinson Piramuthu, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10095782
    Abstract: A method and a system for summarization of short comments are provided. The system comprises a memory to store a plurality of comments. Each of the plurality of comments including an overall rating and at least one phrase. The system also includes one or more processors to implement an aspect module to identify a head term based on a portion of the plurality of comments and to map the portion of the plurality of comments to an aspect corresponding to an attribute of an entity. The one or more processor also implement an extraction module to extract, from the portion of the plurality of comments, a representative phrase corresponding to the aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Yue Lu, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Publication number: 20180268454
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for providing information tagging in a networked system is disclosed. The apparatus in an example embodiment includes a tag engine configured to process a database of categorized product listings; to receive a user-provided tag associated with at least one of the product listings; to retain the user-provided tag; and to serve the user-provided tag to a user viewing at least one of the product listings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Brian Scott Johnson, Brian M. Johnson, Badrul M. Sarwar, Benny Soetarman, Rajyashree Mukherjee, Venkat Sundaranatha, Neelakantan Sundaresan, Randall Scott Shoup, Daniel Kramer, Jason M. Heidema, Musaab At-Taras, Alvaro Bolivar, Jean-David Ruvini
  • Patent number: 10055484
    Abstract: Various example embodiments are provided for inferring relationships between a first query comprising a plurality of first terms and a second query comprising a plurality of second terms. In an example, queries are related based on the identification of common terms between the queries. One or more dissimilar terms are identified between the plurality of first terms and the plurality of second terms. A first number of dissimilar terms included in the first query and a second number of dissimilar terms included in the second query are identified. A weight is assigned to the relationship between the first query and the second query based on a difference between the first number and the second number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Nishith Parikh, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10037121
    Abstract: Systems and methods of visual mining of user behavior patterns are disclosed. A plurality of clickstreams may be received. Each clickstream may represent a corresponding sequence of user actions. A visual representation of each clickstream may be caused to be displayed on a device. Each visual representation may comprise a distinct graphical element for each user action of the corresponding clickstream, and each visual representation may be configured to indicate a frequency level of the corresponding clickstream. Each distinct graphical element may comprise a geometric shape and a corresponding color that distinctly represents the corresponding user action. Graphical elements of each visual representation may comprise a size that is proportional to the frequency level of the corresponding clickstream. An indication of a selection of one of the visual representations may be received, and additional information about the corresponding clickstream may be caused to be displayed on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Zeqian Shen, Neelakantan Sundaresan, Jishang Wei
  • Publication number: 20180197213
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing listing assistance to a user for generating an item listing is provided. In example embodiments, user input is received from a device of the user. Information regarding item listings that correspond to the user input is accessed. Statistic data is generated using the accessed information. The statistic data is provided for display to the device of the user for generating the item listing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Neelakantan Sundaresan, Nam Do, Andrew Yee