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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2006
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);
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 running on a first peer-to-peer client of the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes, the first peer-to-peer client application to maintain persistent user account information on the first peer-to-peer client, the persistent information being related to a plurality of user accounts for conducting e-commerce interactions on the network-based interaction environment, the plurality of user accounts including at least one user account based on a plurality of roles of a corresponding user.