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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2009
Chris Kalaboukis, San Jose, CA (US);
Irfan Presswala, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chris W. Higgins, Portland, OR (US);
Christopher T Paretti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Marc Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Edward Stanley Ott, Iv, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Athellina Athsani, San Jose, CA (US);
Chris Kalaboukis, San Jose, CA (US);
Irfan Presswala, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chris W. Higgins, Portland, OR (US);
Christopher T Paretti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Marc Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Edward Stanley Ott, IV, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Athellina Athsani, San Jose, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and system for managing demand for an object includes capturing information about the object through a mobile device associated with a user. The mobile device is configured to capture information about the object that include one or more of a spatial, temporal, topical and social attributes of the object. The identity of the object is verified and validated using this metadata captured by the user through the device from the real world object or its proxy. Upon successful verification and validation, the object and its metadata are automatically added to a wish list of the user. An aggregate list is generated using the attributes and metadata of the object from a plurality of users. The aggregate list defines a source of demand for the object. The object is tracked as it progresses through various phases of ownership cycle using dynamic demand calculations based on the information associated with the objects, the users and the aggregate lists.