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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2018
Ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Zahid N. Ahmed, San Jose, CA (US);
Adrian Nicholas Cockcroft, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Josep M. Ferrandiz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Neelakantan Sundaresan, Mountain View, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based interaction environment includes a plurality of peer-to-peer nodes being able to communicate directly with each other using a peer-to-peer protocol and a peer-to-peer client application, and a first peer-to-peer client application to maintain persistent item information on at least one peer-to-peer node of the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes, the persistent information being related to an item being offered by a first user of the first peer-to-peer client application.