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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2007
Applicants:
Dan L. Pritchett, San Jose, CA (US);
Ian Flint, Cupertino, CA (US);
Connie Y. Yang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Dan L. Pritchett, San Jose, CA (US);
Ian Flint, Cupertino, CA (US);
Connie Y. Yang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30887 (2013.01); H04L 67/1002 (2013.01); H04L 67/1021 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04L 29/12594 (2013.01); H04L 29/12783 (2013.01); H04L 61/30 (2013.01); H04L 61/35 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system receives at a server a search request and processes the search request to determine a context of the search request, then determines, based on the context, a network route to an application server having the closest geographic proximity, with respect to the server, to the most relevant database associated with the context.