Ebay, Incorporated

Agami Systems, Inc.

David Raccah

Edward O'Neil Garcia

Leonard Robert Speiser

Waheed Qureshi

Olaf Manczak

George Liang

Erik Rannala

Jennifer L Kozenski

Kacper Nowicki

Luis Ramos

George Feinberg

Renée Gentry VonBergen

Maura K Randall

Various embodiments include systems, methods, and software to manage offers in a network-based commerce system. One embodiment includes providing sellers an option when listing an item for sale to receive best offers for the item from buyers. This embodiment further includes receiving best offers submitted by offerees via the network-based commerce system and notifying sellers of received best offers. Some embodiments further include providing sellers an option to accept, reject, or ignore the individual best offers received. In some such embodiments, ignored best offers expire after a period, such as 48 hours. Yet further embodiments include notifying offerees of acceptance or rejection of their submitted best offers.

Network-based commerce facility offer management methods and systems

A system comprises a buyer request creation module to receive a buyer request listing, the buyer request creation module automatically to determine a listing category for the buyer request listing. A buyer request searching module locates a buyer request listing corresponding to a search criteria. A buyer request response module adds a response to the buyer request listing, the response comprising a reference to a listing for an item offered for sale on the system.

System to recommend listing categories for buyer request listings

System to provide buyer wanted request listings

A system and method to provide wanted ad listings within an e-commerce system. Wanted ads are posted by buyers of goods and services seeking to purchase items described within the wanted ad listings. Sellers of goods and services on the e-commerce server respond to wanted ad listings by providing a response on the wanted ad listing that provides a reference to the seller's listings for items currently being offered for sale. Buyers may use these responses from sellers to locate items matching wanted items. Buyers then may purchase the items offered for sale.

Method and system to provide wanted ad listing within an e-commerce system

According to one embodiment, a storage system () may include a gateway service (), metadata service () and storage service () that each provide different storage system functions. Each service (and) may include a plurality of servers that are functionally de-coupled from one another. De-coupled servers may service requests without regard to the operation of other servers of the same service. Such a de-coupled arrangement can allow a storage system () to be scaled to meet increasing demands, as servers may be added to a system, on a service by service basis, without necessarily re-indexing stored information or reconfiguring multiple instances of a server application. Further, backup servers may be easily added to the system to enable fault tolerance. Servers of a particular service (and) may be accessed according to a quality of service policy.

Scalable storage system

Growing community of inventors

San Jose, CA, United States of America

David Raccah