公开(公告)号：CA3099281A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-27

申请号：CA3099281

申请日：2020-11-13

Applicant: SHOPIFY INC

Inventor： DELANEY MANDERS BLAKE ,  HO DENNIS

IPC: G06Q30/06

Abstract: System and methods are provided to regulate sales of a product in an online store using computer-implemented delays. The computer-implemented delays can, for example, help mitigate the use of bots in the online store, provide different customers with equal access to the product and/or provide certain customers with priority access to the product. According to an embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication that a user intends to purchase an item of a product in an online store, and determining a delay for a sale of the item to the user to regulate sales of the product. Before completing the sale of the item to the user, the delay is implemented in the online store.

公开(公告)号：CA3099023A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-05

申请号：CA3099023

申请日：2020-11-11

Applicant: SHOPIFY INC

Inventor： FRANCIS SCOTT ,  DELANEY MANDERS BLAKE ,  HO DENNIS

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  G06Q30/00 ,  H04L12/16

Abstract: 87433875 ABSTRACT A system for web traffic control is provided that is based on information related to a user's previous online activity. In one embodiment, the system is able to collect information about incoming traffic, compare the information to a generated ruleset, and make and implement a decision about how to handle each request/user interaction. In one embodiment, the ruleset is based on e-commerce rules. An e-commerce rule is a unit of decision making logic based on the user's previous online activity on the e-commerce platform, e.g. "If request is to add an item to user's cart, and if user already added something to their cart less than one second ago, then block request". In some embodiments, the rules may be executed at the firewall and/or in a web application on the e-commerce platform. In some embodiments, one or more rules may be recommended to a merchant. Date Recue/Date Received 2020-11-11

公开(公告)号：CA3146677A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-08

申请号：CA3146677

申请日：2022-01-26

Applicant: SHOPIFY INC

Inventor： MEUNIER DEVON ,  SIDAT OSAMA ,  LEE JOHN JONG-SUK ,  HO DENNIS

IPC: G06F21/00 ,  G06F16/27 ,  G06F17/00

Abstract: Methods and systems for using a distributed ledger to record bot mitigation test results and enable servers to determine a bot mitigation score for a remote device based on previously recorded test results associated with the remote device. The server may detect a trigger for bot mitigation in association with a remote device, obtain identifying data regarding the remote device and search a distributed ledger using the identifying data to locate one or more test results stored in records on the distributed ledger containing the identifying data. It may then determine a bot likelihood score based on the one or more test results, compare the bot likelihood score to a threshold and, in response to the comparison, execute a mitigation action.

公开(公告)号：CA3137564A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-18

申请号：CA3137564

申请日：2021-11-04

Applicant: SHOPIFY INC

Inventor： HO DENNIS

IPC: H04L67/02 ,  H04L9/40

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods that require/force bots to access and interact with webpages at a similar level to humans, by including an executable script that generates/updates a test value for a webpage. The client devices must perform certain processing and/or rendering of the webpage to call the computations necessary for generating the updated test value. The script must be executed as a function of processing and/or rendering the webpage. The script may be retrieved from the webserver as a function of processing and/or rendering the webpage. When the browser executes this script, the browser generates the updated test value. At some point, the client device submits a request for certain process with the updated test value. The server compares the inbound test value from the client device against an initial/previously received test value or an expected test value to detemine whether the browser is being operated by a human.

公开(公告)号：CA3129778A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-05

申请号：CA3129778

申请日：2021-09-02

Applicant: SHOPIFY INC

Inventor： BILOTTA PETER ,  HO DENNIS

IPC: G06Q30/00 ,  G06F17/00

Abstract: Methods and systems for processing high frequency requests The method may include receiving, by a computing system, a product request for an item; appending the product request to an ordered queue of requests for processing; determining a likelihood of completion value for the product request; and, when the likelihood of completion value is less than a threshold level, identifying an alternative offer and generating and sending, to a customer device, data regarding the alternative offer.