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Patent No.:

US 8001058 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011

Filed:

Jul. 26, 2010
Applicants:

James A. Harding, Issaquah, WA (US);

Sean M. O'neill, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

James A. Harding, Issaquah, WA (US);

Sean M. O'Neill, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Incline Village, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A facility for responding to a request for information about an item. The facility receives a request for information about the item. Among a plurality of sellers, the facility identifies those sellers (1) that are offering the item for sale, (2) whose availability level for the selected item exceeds a predetermined availability threshold, and (3) that have a seller score relating to a number of different items offered for sale by the seller that exceeds a predetermined score threshold. The facility uses the identified sellers and the price of the item to select the featured seller of the item. The facility replies to the request for information with a web page containing both information describing the item and a control that can be activated to order the item from the featured seller.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Harding, James. (2011). Evaluating item sellers to promote sellers, inform item purchasing decisions and build trust in a multiple-seller marketplace (U.S. Patent No. 8001058). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8001058

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