Ebay, Incorporated

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Oath Inc.

Verizon Media Inc.

Ian Flint

Jason W May

Connie Wong Yang

Daniel L Pritchett

Igor Gashinsky

Dan L Pritchett

Connie Y Yang

Methods and apparatus for monitoring network links are disclosed. In one implementation, a client device composes a plurality of data packets and transmits the data packets via a network to a server via two or more ports of the client device. The data packets are transmitted via multiple paths across the network. After transmitting the data packets to the server, the client device composes and transmits a control packet to the server, where the control packet indicates a total number of the data packets that have been transmitted by the client device to the server.

UDPING&#x2014;continuous one-way monitoring of multiple network links

A method and system receives at a server a search request and processes the search request to determine a context of the search request, then determines, based on the context, a network route to an application server having the closest geographic proximity, with respect to the server, to the most relevant database associated with the context.

System and method for managing network traffic routing

UDPING-continuous one-way monitoring of multiple network links

Methods and systems are provided for managing network traffic routing. The system receives a request by a user and determines a location of the user. The system determines, based on a configuration of rules, an application pool is in a first zone that includes the location of the user. Further, in response to the determining the application pool is in the first zone, the system routes the request to the application pool and parses the request to determine a context of the request. The system determines, based on the context parsed from the request, an application server in the application pool to service the request based on the context. Finally, in response to determining the application server based on the context, the system routes the request to the application server.

UDPing-continuous one-way monitoring of multiple network links

Systems and methods for managing network traffic routing are described. The system receives network traffic from external-facing load balancers at a gateway of a distributed network application. The network traffic includes one or more data requests. The system inspects a data request of the one or more data requests to determine a context of the data request. The system routes the network traffic from the external-facing load balancers to the gateway based on a geographic location of an origin of the network traffic. Finally, the system routes, based on the context of the data request corresponding to data stored at a database, the data request from the gateway to a first internal-facing load balancer of a plurality of internal-facing load balancers associated with a first application server of a plurality of application servers having a closest geographic proximity to the database.

A system and method for detecting fraud when facilitating a payment transaction over a global wide area network. The method comprises receiving a sale information, receiving a payment information from a buyer, and analyzing a transaction information for fraud. If the analyzing indicates fraud, an enhanced transaction information is communicated to a human for fraud analysis. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing rule-based analyses to determine whether the transaction appears to be fraudulent. Rule-based analyses may include suspect data rules and velocity rules. Velocity rules generally determine whether there has been excessive activity that may lead to a conclusion that the transaction may be fraudulent. Suspect data rules are used to determine whether the billing, shipping, selling addresses, telephone numbers, and account numbers, and other data are in a syntactically correct format and whether they exist. In one embodiment, the method further comprises performing simple screening of the transaction information. In one embodiment, the method further comprises seeking approval from a third party such as a financial institution based on the payment information. The method may be implemented as part of a system that includes personal computers, server computers, and other personal computing devices, some of which may communicate over the Internet, and others which may communicate via dedicated communication lines.

Method and system for detecting fraud

A method and apparatus for facilitating online payment transactions between participants in a network-based transaction facility are described. In one embodiment, user interface information is communicated to a first participant via a communications network. The user interface information identifies various payment instruments available for processing online payment transactions in the network-based transaction facility. Further, payment option information is received from the first participant via the communications network. The payment option information indicates the willingness of the first participant to accept a payment from a second participant via one or more of the various payment instruments. This payment option information is passed to the second participant via the communications network. Afterwards, personal billing information is accepted from the second participant via the communications network to facilitate an online payment transaction between the first participant and the second participant. The personal billing information concerns a payment instrument selected by the second participant from the payment instruments specified by the first participant.

Method and apparatus for facilitating online payment transactions in a network-based transaction facility using multiple payment instruments

A method and a system to transfer payment to a seller associated with a transaction facility. In one aspect, a risk level involved in a payment transaction using a scoring algorithm is evaluated based on seller-specific criteria; and a payment is processed based on the evaluation.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Ian Flint