Patents by Inventor Scot Fraser Hamilton
Scot Fraser Hamilton 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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Patent number: 11875391Abstract: According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic text message is received from a source telephone number, the electronic text message including content describing a product item. A seller of the product item is identified, based on the source telephone number, and the product item is identified, based on the content included in the electronic text message. Thereafter, a draft version of an item listing is automatically generated, where the item listing lists the product item as being for sale by the seller on a marketplace website.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: EBAY INC.Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates
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Patent number: 11778439Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request to establish a session for a single mobile application executing on a mobile device is received on a remote device via an application programming interface (API) that is integrated with the single mobile application. Information from the single mobile application is received on the remote device via the API, the information including information about the single mobile application. A command is sent from the remote device to the mobile device, causing the mobile device to execute the command in the single mobile application.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: EBAY INC.Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
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Publication number: 20220264271Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request to establish a session for a single mobile application executing on a mobile device is received on a remote device via an application programming interface (API) that is integrated with the single mobile application. Information from the single mobile application is received on the remote device via the API, the information including information about the single mobile application. A command is sent from the remote device to the mobile device, causing the mobile device to execute the command in the single mobile application.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Scot Fraser HAMILTON, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
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Patent number: 11405765Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request for assistance from the user is detected and a request is issued to a remote device for establishment of a remote assistance session. Information describing a state of the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device and one or more commands may be received from the remote device. The commands may be executed on the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
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Patent number: 11360955Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for versioning data in an unstructured data store are presented. The method includes generating a first record in the unstructured data store based on a version of a second record in the unstructured data store. The method further includes initializing a parent version identifier of the first record based on the version of the second record. The method further includes comparing the parent version identifier of the first record to a version identifier of the second record. The method further includes determining whether the first record is consistent based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Rekha Patel, Satya Seethasridhar, Nicholas Whyte, Parikshit Arora, Snezana Sahter
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Patent number: 11263679Abstract: A method and a system to determine a product identification of an item for sale in an online publication system is shown and described. For example, the method may be initiated when an input identifying an item is received from a user. An input type (e.g., image, text, audio recording, etc.) may be determined and one or more identification services may be selected based on the input type. At least a portion of the input is transmit to the selected one or more identification services. A product identification is received from each of the one or more identification services. Based on the received product identifications, a recommended product identification is determined. The recommended product identification is transmitted to the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Dinesh Kumar Damodharan, Bhupendra Jain
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Patent number: 11126685Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for optimizing an input publication with augmented content for optimization across multiple types of computing devices. An input publication is analyzed to extract structure and meaning from the input publication to match the input publication with a standardized publication of a standardized publication catalog, the standardized publication having content that is optimized be displayed on a plurality of computing devices. A preview of the input publication is provided with the content from the standardized publication that is optimized be displayed on a particular computing device. A publication corpus is updated to include the input publication with the content from the standardized publication that is optimized be displayed on the particular computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Ping Chen, Glebs Riskovs, Scot Fraser Hamilton, Anh DeCroix, Peter David Copeland, Amol Vilas Sane
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Publication number: 20210248659Abstract: According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic text message is received from a source telephone number, the electronic text message including content describing a product item. A seller of the product item is identified, based on the source telephone number, and the product item is identified, based on the content included in the electronic text message. Thereafter, a draft version of an item listing is automatically generated, where the item listing lists the product item as being for sale by the seller on a marketplace website.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates
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Patent number: 11017450Abstract: According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic text message is received from a source telephone number, the electronic text message including content describing a product item. A seller of the product item is identified, based on the source telephone number, and the product item is identified, based on the content included in the electronic text message. Thereafter, a draft version of an item listing is automatically generated, where the item listing lists the product item as being for sale by the seller on a marketplace website.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates
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Publication number: 20200260243Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request for assistance from the user is detected and a request is issued to a remote device for establishment of a remote assistance session. Information describing a state of the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device and one or more commands may be received from the remote device. The commands may be executed on the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
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Patent number: 10609531Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request for assistance from the user is detected and a request is issued to a remote device for establishment of a remote assistance session. Information describing a state of the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device and one or more commands may be received from the remote device. The commands may be executed on the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
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Publication number: 20190294708Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for versioning data in an unstructured data store are presented. The method includes generating a first record in the unstructured data store based on a version of a second record in the unstructured data store. The method further includes initializing a parent version identifier of the first record based on the version of the second record. The method further includes comparing the parent version identifier of the first record to a version identifier of the second record. The method further includes determining whether the first record is consistent based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2018Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Rekha Patel, Satya Seethasridhar, Nicholas Whyte, Parikshit Arora, Snezana Sahter
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Publication number: 20190244269Abstract: A method and a system to determine a product identification of an item for sale in an online publication system is shown and described. For example, the method may be initiated when an input identifying an item is received from a user. An input type (e.g., image, text, audio recording, etc.) may be determined and one or more identification services may be selected based on the input type. At least a portion of the input is transmit to the selected one or more identification services. A product identification is received from each of the one or more identification services. Based on the received product identifications, a recommended product identification is determined. The recommended product identification is transmitted to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Dinesh Kumar Damodharan, Bhupendra Jain
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Publication number: 20190239045Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request for assistance from the user is detected and a request is issued to a remote device for establishment of a remote assistance session. Information describing a state of the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device and one or more commands may be received from the remote device. The commands may be executed on the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
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Patent number: 10319018Abstract: A method and a system to determine a product identification of an item for sale in an online publication system is shown and described. For example, the method may be initiated when an input identifying an item is received from a user. An input type (e.g., image, text, audio recording, etc.) may be determined and one or more identification services may be selected based on the input type. At least a portion of the input is transmit to the selected one or more identification services. A product identification is received from each of the one or more identification services. Based on the received product identifications, a recommended product identification is determined. The recommended product identification is transmitted to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Dinesh Kumar Damodharan, Bhupendra Jain
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Patent number: 10278040Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request for assistance from the user is detected and a request is issued to a remote device for establishment of a remote assistance session. Information describing a state of the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device and one or more commands may be received from the remote device. The commands may be executed on the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: EBAY INC.Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
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Publication number: 20180357700Abstract: According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic text message is received from a source telephone number, the electronic text message including content describing a product item. A seller of the product item is identified, based on the source telephone number, and the product item is identified, based on the content included in the electronic text message. Thereafter, a draft version of an item listing is automatically generated, where the item listing lists the product item as being for sale by the seller on a marketplace website.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates
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Patent number: 10074125Abstract: According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic text message is received from a source telephone number, the electronic text message including content describing a product item. A seller of the product item is identified, based on the source telephone number, and the product item is identified, based on the content included in the electronic text message. Thereafter, a draft version of an item listing is automatically generated, where the item listing lists the product item as being for sale by the seller on a marketplace website.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates
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Publication number: 20180184276Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request for assistance from the user is detected and a request is issued to a remote device for establishment of a remote assistance session. Information describing a state of the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device and one or more commands may be received from the remote device. The commands may be executed on the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
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Publication number: 20180121560Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for optimizing an input publication with augmented content for optimization across multiple types of computing devices. An input publication is analyzed to extract structure and meaning from the input publication to match the input publication with a standardized publication of a standardized publication catalog, the standardized publication having content that is optimized be displayed on a plurality of computing devices. A preview of the input publication is provided with the content from the standardized publication that is optimized be displayed on a particular computing device. A publication corpus is updated to include the input publication with the content from the standardized publication that is optimized be displayed on the particular computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Ping Chen, Glebs Riskovs, Scot Fraser Hamilton, Anh DeCroix, Peter David Copeland, Amol Vilas Sane