Ebay, Incorporated

Paypal, Inc.

Gunshekar Cemballi

Bhupendra G Jain

Zhenyin Yang

Andrew John Melnick

Vikram Subramaniam

Janet Lee

Erik Rannala

George B Petkov

Loic Tregan

Ghufran Ahmed

Jamie Iannone

Annupreet Sidana

Neelakantan Sundaresan

Sanjay Pundlkrao Ghatare

Randall Scott Shoup

Eric Noel Billingsley

Suhail Ansari

Vipul C Dalal

James Ladd

A method and a system to promote a publication are provided. In example embodiments, data is received from a user that is used to create a publication for placement on a networked-based system. An indication to promote the publication on the networked-based system is received. A user interface through which the user selects an option to promote the publication on the network-based system is presented. The publication is published on the network-based system, whereby the publication is promoted based on the option selected to promote the publication.

System and method to promote a publication

A method and a system to publish a promotion at a point-of-sale are provided. For example, a preliminary selection associated with a purchase from a user may be received. A promotion may be published to the user at a point-of-sale associated with the purchase after the user makes the preliminary selection and before the user finalizes the purchase. The promotion may be based on at least one attribute of past transactions and the preliminary selection.

Point-of-sale promotions

A system and method for context and community based customization for a user experience is disclosed. The apparatus in an example embodiment includes a user experience customizer to gather context information, automatically produce user experience customization selections based on the context information, collect user activity feedback from a community of users, and use the user activity feedback to adjust the user experience customizer to automatically produce user experience customization selections likely favored by a user based on a correlation of the user activity feedback with the context information.

System and method for context and community based customization for a user experience

A method and system to publish a promotion at a point-of-sale are provided. For example, a preliminary selection associated with a purchase from a user may be received. A promotion may be published to the user at a point-of-sale associated with the purchase after the user makes the preliminary selection and before the user finalizes the purchase. The promotion may be based on at least one attribute, where the at least one attribute is selected from a group including a user attribute and an attribute associated with the preliminary selection.

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