Flexible asset and search recommendation engines

US8050998B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• eBay Inc. · US

Inventors

• Alvaro Bolivar · San Francisco, US
• Sunil Mohan · Los Gatos, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 26, 2007
• Grant date: Nov 1, 2011
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/04
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The subject mater herein relates to Internet-based commerce and, more particularly, to a flexible asset and search recommendation engines. Various embodiments herein provide systems, methods, and software to identify relationships between assets and provide asset recommendations as a function of the identified relationships. In some embodiments, relationships between assets are identified by gathering statistics including a probability of an action in view of one or more other actions an entity may have performed.