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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2013
Ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Lenahan, Moraga, CA (US);
Ben Mitchell, Oakland, CA (US);
Chahn Chung, San Francisco, CA (US);
Myra Sandoval, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tim Suglian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Bret MacLaurin, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
James Ross Skorupski, San Jose, CA (US);
Jesse Wolfe, Sammamish, WA (US);
Hsin-Yi Chien, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marie Jeanette Floyd Tahir, San Jose, CA (US);
Jai Dandekar, San Jose, CA (US);
Healey Cypher, San Francisco, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for enhancing and personalizing an interactive marketplace. The systems and methods provided herein may allow a user to receive search results that are tailored to the user's personal preferences based on social and purchasing information known about the user. In addition, the systems and methods provided herein may provide shipping updates to a buyer that include a personalized message based on location information provided by the package being shipped. In addition, the systems and methods provided herein allow merchants to provide incentives and rewards for shoppers by participating in interactive shopping games.