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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:
Aug. 14, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2010
Applicants:

Josh Loftus, San Jose, CA (US);

Venkat Sundaranatha, San Jose, CA (US);

Louis Marcel Gino Monier, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Jean-michel Leon, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Aditya Arora, Fremont, CA (US);

Benjamin David Foster, Campbell, CA (US);

Seema Shah, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Josh Loftus, San Jose, CA (US);

Venkat Sundaranatha, San Jose, CA (US);

Louis Marcel Gino Monier, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Jean-Michel Leon, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Aditya Arora, Fremont, CA (US);

Benjamin David Foster, Campbell, CA (US);

Seema Shah, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

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

There are provided methods and systems to identify an item based on data inferred from information about the item. Information is received that is descriptive of an item capable of being listed on an information storage and retrieval platform. The information is associated with an aspect-value pair, which is an aspect of the item and a value of the aspect and is inferred from the information. An expression of an interest of a user in an additional item is received. The expression is associated with the aspect-value pair. In response to the associating of the expression with the aspect-value pair, the item is identified as the additional item.


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