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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2005
Applicants:

Zahid Ahmed, San Jose, CA (US);

Bhaven Avalani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Changyi Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);

Sergei Nikolaev, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zahid Ahmed, San Jose, CA (US);

Bhaven Avalani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Changyi Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);

Sergei Nikolaev, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Method and apparatus to facilitate access to a network-based publication system. In an embodiment, a user or third party affiliate of a network-based publication system uploads a style sheet or other presentation format file to a database in the network-based publication system. Thereafter, the user or third party affiliate sends a request to the network-based publication system, and the publication system uses one or more of the uploaded style sheets to format the response to be transmitted back to the third party affiliate.


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