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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:
Sep. 18, 2012

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2007
Applicants:

James C. Willeford, Seattle, WA (US);

Nicole A. Deflaux, Seattle, WA (US);

Vidya V. Iyer, Seattle, WA (US);

Anand Chelian, Seattle, WA (US);

Ranganath Atreya, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Adam D. Bradley, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

James C. Willeford, Seattle, WA (US);

Nicole A. Deflaux, Seattle, WA (US);

Vidya V. Iyer, Seattle, WA (US);

Anand Chelian, Seattle, WA (US);

Ranganath Atreya, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Adam D. Bradley, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Techniques are described for facilitating access of users to tasks that are available to be performed, such as via a task exchange system that serves as an intermediary to facilitate performance by some task performer users of tasks supplied by other task requester users. The techniques may include automatically providing a particular group of task performer users with access to a supply of available tasks that are appropriate for those task performer users, such as based on an aggregate probability or other likelihood measure that the task performer users as a group will collectively accept to perform those tasks in a specified manner. More generally, the affinity and/or appropriateness of a group of users to perform one or more tasks may be based on various information related to the users, including past task performance behavior of those users, and/or qualifications or more general reputational aspects of those users.


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