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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:
Mar. 11, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2010
Applicants:

Farhang Kassaei, San Jose, CA (US);

Jaykumar Patel, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Farhang Kassaei, San Jose, CA (US);

Jaykumar Patel, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and a system to manage recommendations in an online marketplace are presented. A social shopping interface is provided at a publisher site accessed by a first user identified by a first user identifier. A recommendation of a listing describing an item for sale and including a second user identifier corresponding to a second user is accessed from a recommendation database. The recommendation, including at least a portion of the listing and the second user identifier are displayed to the first user at the publisher site via the social shopping interface.


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