US 11,720,641 B2
Database search optimizer and themed filters
Narayanan Seshadri, San Jose, CA (US); Gyanit Singh, Fremont, CA (US); Justin Nicholas House, San Jose, CA (US); Nish Parikh, Fremont, CA (US); David Goldberg, Palo Alto, CA (US); Daniel Fain, Saratoga, CA (US); Huai-ter Chong, Saratoga, CA (US); Stephen Neola, Jersey City, NJ (US); and Jonas Oscar Klink, White Plains, NY (US)
Assigned to eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/986,499.
Application 16/986,499 is a continuation of application No. 15/585,986, filed on May 3, 2017, granted, now 10,831,842.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/331,726, filed on May 4, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2020/0364281 A1, Nov. 19, 2020
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/906 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/21 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/9535 (2019.01) [G06F 16/214 (2019.01); G06F 16/2428 (2019.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/906 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0631 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
causing, by one or more processors, display of a representation of an item listing with a network-based publication system in a formatted interface;
causing, by the one or more processors, display of additional representations of additional item listings with the network-based publication system in the formatted interface, wherein the additional item listings are determined to have a threshold similarity to an access request that caused the display of the representation of the item listing and to have at least one differentiating element that does not correspond to the item listing;
determining, by the one or more processors, a set of differentiating elements within the additional item listings; and
causing, by the one or more processors, display of selectable interface icons in the formatted interface, the selectable interface icons representing one or more differentiating elements of the set of differentiating elements.