US 11,816,143 B2
Integrated image system based on image search feature
Mary Adaway Titus, San Jose, CA (US); Hyuntae Kim, Moutain View, CA (US); Benjamin Eliot Klein, San Jose, CA (US); Bo Li, San Jose, CA (US); Maxim Manco, San Jose, CA (US); Stephen Anthony Neola, San Jose, CA (US); and Andrew Daniel Shea, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to eBAY INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2018, as Appl. No. 15/887,667.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/534,025, filed on Jul. 18, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0026316 A1, Jan. 24, 2019
Int. Cl. G06F 16/532 (2019.01); G06F 16/732 (2019.01); G06F 16/50 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/0483 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 16/532 (2019.01) [G06F 3/0483 (2013.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 16/50 (2019.01); G06F 16/7335 (2019.01); G06F 16/9558 (2019.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method for providing integrated image searching, the method comprising:
accessing input associated with a first integrated custom action, when the first integrated custom action is triggered via a native operating system and a first external application of a set of external applications,
wherein the native operating system supports a set of integrated custom actions that trigger image search operations and e-commerce operations on a content application from the set of external applications;
in response to the first integrated custom action triggered via the native operating system, launching the content application on a mobile device, the content application is a mobile device e-commerce application of a content platform for processing online retail transactions for buying and selling a plurality of products, wherein the content application comprises an image search feature for searching for images,
wherein the content application is integrated with the native operating system to generate the set of integrated custom actions that define corresponding entry points, in a set of entry points, to directly launch the image search feature on a landing page of the content application,
the set of integrated custom actions comprising the first integrated custom action associated with a first image search interface for a first external application and a second integrated custom action associated with a second image search interface for a second external application that is different from the first external application;
receiving, via the first integrated custom action from the set of integrated customer actions of the native operating system, an image identifier to execute an image search operation of the image search feature,
the first integrated custom action defines an entry point to the content application based on the content application automatically detecting the image identifier from a clipboard manager, wherein the image identifier is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) received based on a copy share URL action of the native operating system of the mobile device, wherein the copy share URL action is the first integrated custom action;
generating, in the content application, an image search prompt interface associated with the first image search interface, wherein the image search prompt interface displays a prompt to execute the image search operation;
receiving, in the content application, an indication via the image search prompt interface to execute the image search operation;
executing the image search operation to identify image search results based on an image corresponding to the image identifier, wherein the image search operation is executed based on an image store for the plurality of products associated with the content platform of the content application;
causing display of an image search results page comprising the image search results based on the image; and
receiving, in the content application, a user input to execute an e-commerce operation to process an online retail transaction that corresponds to an image search result from the image search results generated in part based on the native operating system and the first integrated custom action.