US 11,995,106 B2
Crowd assisted query system
Luke Richard-Ivar Heine, Cloquet, MN (US); and Mohammadhadi Kiapour, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to EBAY INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/836,796.
Application 17/836,796 is a continuation of application No. 16/578,774, filed on Sep. 23, 2019, granted, now 11,386,125.
Application 16/578,774 is a continuation of application No. 15/345,627, filed on Nov. 8, 2016, granted, now 10,452,688, issued on Oct. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0300536 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); G06F 16/9032 (2019.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/285 (2019.01) [G06F 16/2423 (2019.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); G06F 16/9032 (2019.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a first client device, a query that includes a request for identification of an item and a reward value associated with the query, the request including an audio input, image data, or both;
transmitting the query that includes the audio input, the image data, or both to a plurality of user devices;
receiving a plurality of description suggestions based on the audio input, the image data, or both from the plurality of user devices in response to transmitting the query;
receiving, from the first client device, an indication of a selected description suggestion from the plurality of description suggestions;
training an artificial intelligence (AI) module to identify the item based on the selected description suggestion;
accessing, by the system, a financial account associated with a user associated with the first client device where the system is associated a third party separate from the user associated with the first client device;
retrieving, by the system, a reward corresponding to the reward value from the financial account; and
delivering, by the system, the reward to a user account associated with a first user device of the one or more user devices that provided the selected description suggestion.