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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. 14, 2017

Filed:

May. 31, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jeffrey Taylor, Los Altos, CA (US);

Noel Morin, Hilo, HI (US);

Annette Goodwine, Burlingame, CA (US);

Vicky Sze, Santa Clara, CA (US);

James Hsin, San Jose, CA (US);

Elaine Fung, Cupertino, CA (US);

Vered Shaviv, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Reed Maltzman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 30/08 (2012.01); G06Q 40/00 (2012.01); G06Q 40/04 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0609 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0641 (2013.01); G06Q 30/08 (2013.01); G06Q 40/00 (2013.01); G06Q 40/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system to automatically qualify a party to participate within a network-based commerce transaction is described. The system receives information from a first party. The information relates to an item to be transacted via a network-based commerce system. The system transmits the information that relates to the item to a second party and receives, from the second party, a request to be qualified to transact the item via the network-based commerce system. The system further transmits, to the first party, a communication comprising information that is related to the second party including a credit score related to the second party. The system further receives, from the first party, a response that corresponds to the communication and automatically performs an authorization process based on the response.


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