Christopher T Dixon

US Patent:

8484142, Jul 9, 2013

Filed:

Jun 11, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/813738

Inventors:

Thomas Pinckney - Brighton MA, US
Christopher Dixon - New York NY, US
Matthew Ryan Gattis - New York NY, US

Assignee:

eBay Inc. - San Jose CA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00
G06F 15/18

US Classification:

706 12

Abstract:

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a computer program product embodied in a computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computers, helps target responses returned to a user through the use of a computer facility by performing the steps of (1) providing a user preference learning API to a third-party website to determine preferences of a user as related to a market of a third-party, wherein the preference learning API is executing as an extension of the computer facility; (2) receiving third-party information related to the market of the third-party; (3) collecting the preferences of the user and storing them as a user preference profile; (4) receiving a query from the user at the third-party website; and (5) using in the user preference learning API the third-party information related to the market of the third-party and the preferences of the user as stored in the user preference profile to provide a response back to the user that relates to the query from the user.

US Patent:

8494978, Jul 23, 2013

Filed:

Jun 11, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/813715

Inventors:

Thomas Pinckney - Brighton MA, US
Christopher Dixon - New York NY, US
Matthew Ryan Gattis - New York NY, US

Assignee:

eBay Inc. - San Jose CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
G06F 17/20

US Classification:

706 11

Abstract:

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a computer program product embodied in a computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computers, helps determine an unknown user's preferences through the use of internet based social interactive graphical representations on a computer facility by performing the steps of (1) ascertaining preferences of a plurality of users who are part of an internet based social interactive construct, wherein the plurality of users become a plurality of known users; (2) determining the internet based social interactive graphical representation for the plurality of known users; and (3) inferring the preferences of an unknown user present in the internet based social interactive graphical representation of the plurality of known users based on the interrelationships between the unknown user and the plurality of known users within the graphical representation.