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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. 18, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 03, 2010
Applicants:

Guenter Wiesinger, Landau, DE;

Jennifer Chang, San Francisco, CA (US);

Enoch Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Kristine Chin Aronson, Mountain View, CA (US);

Famous Rhodes, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Guenter Wiesinger, Landau, DE;

Jennifer Chang, San Francisco, CA (US);

Enoch Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Kristine Chin Aronson, Mountain View, CA (US);

Famous Rhodes, 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

Methods and systems to merchandise a product based on compatibility are disclosed. The system receives a request over a network from a user. Next, the system associates the request with a user profile that is associated with the user, retrieves an application listing from the user profile that describes a first item and associates the first item with a plurality of candidate items based on item cluster information that is generated based on content data information that is received from a content data provider. Next, the system selects a second item from the plurality of candidate items, the second item being a component of the first item. Finally, the system communicates the merchandising information over a network, to merchandize the second item.


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