Ebay, Incorporated

Paypal, Inc.

Scott Leahy

Alon Cohen

Michael K Wilson

Alex Dai-Shun Poon

Mathew Gene Henley

Chris Lalonde

Jeffrey Taylor

Ajay K Agrawal

Kevin H Embree

Jeffrey Leroy King

Andy Brown

Carl Ferreira

Alex D Poon

Mike Wilson

Systems and methods to facilitate programmatic access to a network-based commerce facility via a network are described. A request is received from a third-party application via a programmatic access application, the request identifying a call function that performs, at least in part, an indirect transaction between a network-based commerce facility and a user via a third-party application. Each call function specifies an allowable amount of information to be transferred from the network-based commerce facility. An action corresponding to the call function is performed in response to the request.

Systems and methods to facilitate transactions

A system to alert a user of a network-based marketplace event. The system receives the network-based marketplace event and determines if the network-based marketplace event is associated with a network-based marketplace alert that has been requested by the user. If so, the system communicates the network-based marketplace alert to the client machine over a persistent connection, the network-based marketplace alert to alert the user of the network-based marketplace event.

Methods and systems to alert a user of a network-based marketplace event

Providing prioritization of user online access to an online commerce site. Third party applications using API function calls to access an online commerce site are restricted to specific services by an access rule. An access rule defines which API server on the online commerce site a specific third party application may access when using a specific API function call. In this way, the operator of the online commerce site may prioritize server access per service level agreements based on a specific third party application and API function call.

Prioritization of third party access to an online commerce site

Systems and methods to facilitate programmatic access to a network-based commerce facility via a network are described. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a request from a third party application via the network at the network based commerce facility. The request performs an action pertaining to electronic commerce and being one of a plurality of requests recognized by the network-based commerce facility. In responsive to the request, the method performs the action pertaining to the electronic commerce and communicates from a result of the action from the network-based commerce facility to the third party application in a programmatically accessible format.

Method and apparatus to facilitate programmatic access to a network-based commerce facility via a network. The method includes receiving a request from a third party application via the network at the network based commerce facility. The request performs an action pertaining to electronic commerce and being one of a plurality of requests recognized by the network-based commerce facility. In responsive to the request, the method performs the action pertaining to the electronic commerce and communicates from a result of the action from the network-based commerce facility to the third party application in a programmatically accessible format.

Method and apparatus to facilitate a transaction within a network-based facility

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Scott Leahy