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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2001
Alex D. Poon, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Scott Leahy, San Jose, CA (US);
Mike Wilson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Alex D. Poon, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Scott Leahy, San Jose, CA (US);
Mike Wilson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus to facilitate programmatic access to a network-based commerce facility via a network. The method includes receiving a request from a third party application via the network at the network based commerce facility. The request performs an action pertaining to electronic commerce and being one of a plurality of requests recognized by the network-based commerce facility. In responsive to the request, the method performs the action pertaining to the electronic commerce and communicates from a result of the action from the network-based commerce facility to the third party application in a programmatically accessible format.