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Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013

Filed:

Dec. 06, 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 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

There is provided methods and systems to transform unstructured information into structured information. First, the system accesses a rule specifying a condition for assigning data to the data item, the condition based on the content of the data item, the assigned data to provide structure to the data item. Second, based on a detecting that the condition has been met, the system applies the rule to assign the assigned data to the data item. Third, the system stores, in a database, the data item and the assigned data as the data item structured information.


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