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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2008
Filed:
May. 09, 2002
Neil C. Roseman, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul Kotas, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey P. Bezos, Greater Seattle, WA (US);
Bruce C. Moore, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard L. Dalzell, Greater Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey M. Blackburn, Seattle, WA (US);
Neil C. Roseman, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul Kotas, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey P. Bezos, Greater Seattle, WA (US);
Bruce C. Moore, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard L. Dalzell, Greater Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey M. Blackburn, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon.com, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
An electronic marketplace system embodies various inventions for assisting users in listing products for sale, locating the listings for a product, and performing related actions. A user wishing to sell a product can browse to an existing description of the product in an electronic catalog and then select an option to create a corresponding listing. If the user previously purchased the product via the system, the user may alternatively select the product from a personal purchase history. To create the listing for the selected product, the user preferably specifies the product's condition and a selling price. The pending listings for a product are preferably displayed or summarized on the product's detail page in the catalog. When no such listings exist, an option to preorder the product from an unspecified seller may be provided. In one embodiment, the electronic catalog also serves as a retail sales catalog of a merchant.