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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2009
Oliver G. Dumon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Mcdonald, San Francisco, CA (US);
Muhammad Faisal Rehman, San Jose, CA (US);
Julie Netzloff, San Jose, CA (US);
Ken Sun, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Oliver G. Dumon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan McDonald, San Francisco, CA (US);
Muhammad Faisal Rehman, San Jose, CA (US);
Julie Netzloff, San Jose, CA (US);
Ken Sun, Palo Alto, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for evaluating business rules for the purpose of promoting or demoting an item listing are presented. Consistent with an example embodiment, a conditional statement of a business rule that includes one or more expressions involving an item attribute and/or a seller attribute for an item listing is evaluated. If the conditional statement evaluates true, an adjustment factor set forth in the business rule is applied to a ranking score assigned to the item listing. The item listing is then presented in a search results page in a position relative to other item listings based upon the adjusted ranking score.