Sharing shopping information on a network-based social platform

US7720722B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• eBay Inc. · US

Inventors

• Yuan Der Ho · San Mateo, US
• Choon Chong · San Francisco, US
• Rolf Skyberg · Campbell, US
• Massimiliano Mancini · San Jose, US
• Adam Trachtenberg · San Francisco, US
• Trisha Lee Okubo · San Jose, US
• Philip Law · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 2007
• Grant date: May 18, 2010
• Expiry date: Dec 31, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L65/403
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system that receives, at a network-based social platform, a request from a first user of the network-based social platform. The request is to add an item to a list associated with a second user of the network-based social platform. The list is for watching items offered for sale on a network-based marketplace. Next, the system determines whether the first user is authorized to add the item to the list associated with the second user based on relationship information that identifies a predetermined relationship between the first user and the second user on the network-based social platform. Finally, the system communicates the request to the network-based marketplace to add the item to the list associated with the second user.