Patents by Inventor Thomas Normile

Thomas Normile 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: 12056172
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for accessing a set of feedback items, identifying a candidate feedback item from the set of feedback items using a lexical pattern, generating a gist phrase that summarizes the candidate feedback item, and causing display of a user interface on a client device, the user interface including the gist phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Samaneh Abbasi Moghaddam, Marco Pennacchiotti, Thomas Normile
  • Patent number: 11675871
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing sites is described. A scanner module scans listings of an online publication. A quality engine analyzes the quality of the listings. A data collection module collects defective conditions of the listings determined by the quality engine. A report module reports the defective conditions of the listings. An auto correction module automatically corrects at least a first portion of the defective conditions of the listings. A manual correction module enables an operator of the online publication to correct at least a second portion of the defective conditions of the listings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Viraj Byakod, Thomas Normile, Vinoth Amaranathan
  • Publication number: 20220019610
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for accessing a set of feedback items, identifying a candidate feedback item from the set of feedback items using a lexical pattern, generating a gist phrase that summarizes the candidate feedback item, and causing display of a user interface on a client device, the user interface including the gist phrase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Samaneh Abbasi Moghaddam, Marco Pennacchiotti, Thomas Normile
  • Publication number: 20210349957
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing sites is described. A scanner module scans listings of an online publication. A quality engine analyzes the quality of the listings. A data collection module collects defective conditions of the listings determined by the quality engine. A report module reports the defective conditions of the listings. An auto correction module automatically corrects at least a first portion of the defective conditions of the listings. A manual correction module enables an operator of the online publication to correct at least a second portion of the defective conditions of the listings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Viraj Byakod, Thomas Normile, Vinoth Amaranathan
  • Patent number: 11151181
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for mining feedback are described. A set of one or more lexical patterns associated with one or more of a suggestion and a defect report are determined and the set of one or more lexical patterns are matched against a plurality of feedback items to generate a distance learning training set. A distance learning technique is applied to the distance learning training set to generate a distance learning model and the distance learning model is used to identify one or more candidate feedback items of the plurality of feedback items, each of which is one or more of a candidate suggestion and a candidate defect report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Samaneh Abbasi Moghaddam, Marco Pennacchiotti, Thomas Normile
  • Patent number: 11093573
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing sites is described. A scanner module scans listings of an online publication. A quality engine analyzes the quality of the listings. A data collection module collects defective conditions of the listings determined by the quality engine. A report module reports the defective conditions of the listings. An auto correction module automatically corrects at least a first portion of the defective conditions of the listings. A manual correction module enables an operator of the online publication to correct at least a second portion of the defective conditions of the listings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Viraj Byakod, Thomas Normile, Vinoth Amaranathan
  • Publication number: 20190361944
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing sites is described. A scanner module scans listings of an online publication. A quality engine analyzes the quality of the listings. A data collection module collects defective conditions of the listings determined by the quality engine. A report module reports the defective conditions of the listings. An auto correction module automatically corrects at least a first portion of the defective conditions of the listings. A manual correction module enables an operator of the online publication to correct at least a second portion of the defective conditions of the listings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Viraj Byakod, Thomas Normile, Vinoth Amaranathan
  • Patent number: 10409883
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing sites is described. A scanner module scans listings of an online publication. A quality engine analyzes the quality of the listings. A data collection module collects defective conditions of the listings determined by the quality engine. A report module reports the defective conditions of the listings. An auto correction module automatically corrects at least a first portion of the defective conditions of the listings. A manual correction module enables an operator of the online publication to correct at least a second portion of the defective conditions of the listings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Viraj Byakod, Thomas Normile, Vinoth Amaranathan
  • Publication number: 20190095823
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for mining feedback are described. A set of one or more lexical patterns associated with one or more of a suggestion and a defect report are determined and the set of one or more lexical patterns are matched against a plurality of feedback items to generate a distance learning training set. A distance learning technique is applied to the distance learning training set to generate a distance learning model and the distance learning model is used to identify one or more candidate feedback items of the plurality of feedback items, each of which is one or more of a candidate suggestion and a candidate defect report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Samaneh Abbasi Moghaddam, Marco Pennacchiotti, Thomas Normile
  • Publication number: 20190026297
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing sites is described. A scanner module scans listings of an online publication. A quality engine analyzes the quality of the listings. A data collection module collects defective conditions of the listings determined by the quality engine. A report module reports the defective conditions of the listings. An auto correction module automatically corrects at least a first portion of the defective conditions of the listings. A manual correction module enables an operator of the online publication to correct at least a second portion of the defective conditions of the listings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Viraj Byakod, Thomas Normile, Vinoth Amaranathan
  • Patent number: 10176434
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for mining feedback are described. A set of one or more lexical patterns associated with one or more of a suggestion and a defect report are determined and the set of one or more lexical patterns are matched against a plurality of feedback items to generate a distance learning training set. A distance learning technique is applied to the distance learning training set to generate a distance learning model and the distance learning model is used to identify one or more candidate feedback items of the plurality of feedback items, each of which is one or more of a candidate suggestion and a candidate defect report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Samaneh Abbasi Moghaddam, Marco Pennacchiotti, Thomas Normile
  • Patent number: 9495469
    Abstract: A method and a system to identify machine-readable codes using a web crawler are provided. Machine-readable codes include, but are not limited to, Universal Product Codes (UPC), quick response (QR) codes, stock-keeping units (SKUs) and international standard book number (ISBN) codes. A web crawler downloads pages from the World Wide Web. A determination module accesses the downloaded pages and identifies a machine-readable code corresponding to a product description included in the downloaded pages. The machine-readable code is included in a downloaded page of the downloaded pages. The determination module further extracts the product description from the downloaded page. A code database stores a record of the machine-readable code and the product description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Normile
  • Publication number: 20160092791
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for mining feedback are described. A set of one or more lexical patterns associated with one or more of a suggestion and a defect report are determined and the set of one or more lexical patterns are matched against a plurality of feedback items to generate a distance learning training set. A distance learning technique is applied to the distance learning training set to generate a distance learning model and the distance learning model is used to identify one or more candidate feedback items of the plurality of feedback items, each of which is one or more of a candidate suggestion and a candidate defect report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Samaneh Abbasi Moghaddam, Marco Pennacchiotti, Thomas Normile
  • Publication number: 20160085874
    Abstract: A method and a system to identify machine-readable codes using a web crawler are provided. Machine-readable codes include, but are not limited to, Universal Product Codes (UPC), quick response (QR) codes, stock-keeping units (SKUs) and international standard book number (ISBN) codes. A web crawler downloads pages from the World Wide Web. A determination module accesses the downloaded pages and identifies a machine-readable code corresponding to a product description included in the downloaded pages. The machine-readable code is included in a downloaded page of the downloaded pages. The determination module further extracts the product description from the downloaded page. A code database stores a record of the machine-readable code and the product description.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventor: Thomas Normile
  • Publication number: 20030182410
    Abstract: The method and apparatus of the present invention provide for selection of the optimum mirror site server for a particular client request preferably using anycast IP addressing. Additionally, network performance data such as data pipe load, server load and server configuration are considered to ensure that each communication transaction is completed using the best performance available at the time of the client request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Sapna Balan, Thomas Normile, Stacy W. Smith