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).

  • Patent number: 11875391
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates
  • Patent number: 11778439
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
  • Publication number: 20220264271
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Scot Fraser HAMILTON, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
  • Patent number: 11405765
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
  • Patent number: 11360955
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Rekha Patel, Satya Seethasridhar, Nicholas Whyte, Parikshit Arora, Snezana Sahter
  • Patent number: 11263679
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Dinesh Kumar Damodharan, Bhupendra Jain
  • Patent number: 11126685
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Chen, Glebs Riskovs, Scot Fraser Hamilton, Anh DeCroix, Peter David Copeland, Amol Vilas Sane
  • Publication number: 20210248659
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates
  • Patent number: 11017450
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates
  • Publication number: 20200260243
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
  • Patent number: 10609531
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
  • Publication number: 20190294708
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Rekha Patel, Satya Seethasridhar, Nicholas Whyte, Parikshit Arora, Snezana Sahter
  • Publication number: 20190244269
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Dinesh Kumar Damodharan, Bhupendra Jain
  • Publication number: 20190239045
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
  • Patent number: 10319018
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Dinesh Kumar Damodharan, Bhupendra Jain
  • Patent number: 10278040
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
  • Publication number: 20180357700
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates
  • Patent number: 10074125
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates
  • Publication number: 20180184276
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
  • Publication number: 20180121560
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Ping Chen, Glebs Riskovs, Scot Fraser Hamilton, Anh DeCroix, Peter David Copeland, Amol Vilas Sane