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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2011
Applicants:
Hua-ming Jin, Lexington, MA (US);
Matthew Ackley, Rowley, MA (US);
Ken Lin, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
eBay, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a sales system for lots of items that includes business rule definition logic. The sales system also includes offering creation logic that is operative to dynamically create different offerings for items in the lots. The offering creation logic optimizes return based on one or more of the business rules by using different offering parameter values for the different offerings.