METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IMPLEMENT SELLER AUTHORIZED BUYING PRIVILEGES WITHIN A NETWORK-BASED SHOPPING FACILITY

Patent №

US 7,299,206

Granted

2007-11-20

Filed 2001

Owner

EBAY, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09881911

The present invention discloses a system and method for an Internet-based shopping facility. The shopping facility allows a seller to select shoppers that may bid on the seller's auction listing or offer to but the seller's fixed price listing. Only the shoppers that receive authorization from the seller may bid on or buy the item or service offered for sale by the seller.

PlanningG06Q 30/0609G06Q 30/0601G06Q 30/0641G06Q 30/08G06Q 40/00G06Q 40/04

AI classification

Planning0.55
Natural language0.05
AI hardware0.03
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

EBAY, INC.

assignment · 122040001

Assignors

TAYLOR, JEFFREY, MORIN, NOEL, GOODWINE, ANNETTE, SZE, VICKY, COONEY, KEVIN W., HSIN, JAMES, FUNG, ELAINE, SHAVIV, VERED

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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