• Patent Title: Instant messaging robot to provide product information
  • Application No.: US13505362
    Application Date: 2010-07-23
  • Publication No.: US08447823B2
    Publication Date: 2013-05-21
  • Inventor: Xiaoming Zhang
  • Applicant: Xiaoming Zhang
  • Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
  • Assignee: eBay Inc.
  • Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
  • Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
  • Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
  • International Application: PCT/CN2010/001117 WO 20100723
  • International Announcement: WO2012/009832 WO 20120126
  • Main IPC: G06F15/16
  • IPC: G06F15/16
Instant messaging robot to provide product information
Abstract:
Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data.
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