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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131486 | ONLINE LOGO TOOL An online tool allows a user, such as an online merchant, to access a page of a service provider, select a format, customize funding sources and designs, and copy and paste the code to the merchant page to quickly and easily create a customized funding source graphic.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130895 | TRANSACTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE DEVICE Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for transactions associated with a mobile device are discussed. A method can include receiving a merchant identifier, sending an identification data, receiving a transaction, and processing a funds transfer. Th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130864 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ANALYZE A SELLER INVENTORY OFFERED FOR SALE ON A NETWORK-BASED MARKETPLACE Systems and methods to analyze a seller inventory on a network-based marketplace 76 are disclosed. The system receives identify information, over a network, from a client machine, the identify information identifies a seller that is registered to sell on a networ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129553 | LOCATION-BASED SERVICES Provided herein are methods and systems relating to location-based services such as providing a geofencing, outputting location-based information on a mobile device, varying transmissions to and from a mobile device, and providing location-based alerts. More specificall... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128239 | IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT TO MERCHANDISE AN ITEM Image-based features may be significantly correlated with click-through rates of images that depict a product, which may provide a more formal basis for the informal notion that good quality images will result in better click-through rates, as compared to poor quality i... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126974 | LOCATION-BASED SERVICES Provided herein are methods and systems relating to location-based services such as providing a geofencing, outputting location-based information on a mobile device, varying transmissions to and from a mobile device, and providing location-based alerts. More specificall... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110017 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING SEARCH REQUESTS IN A PLURALITY OF TABS Systems and methods for providing search results in a plurality of tabs are described. In one example embodiment, a search term is received. In response, one or more keywords associated with the search term are obtained. Next, respective searches using respective keywor... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109780 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO SUPPLEMENT A LISTING VIA A THIRD PARTY TRUST PROVIDER Various embodiments include a method and system to supplement a listing via a third party trust provider. Responsive to an event associated with an item listing, supplemental trust information is requested from a third party trust provider using at least one predetermin... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084199 | AUTOMATIC FORM FILLING A user, such as a merchant, populates a form, such as an on-boarding form from a payment provider, with information unique to the user. In one embodiment, the user enters a URL address. The information is communicated to the payment provider, who then obtains additional... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084177 | LOCATION BASED TRANSACTIONS A user's location is determined by location information communicated by a user device, such as a smart phone. Merchants near the user location are determined and selected. Merchant payment information is transmitted to the user device so that the user can easily make a ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072339 | HYBRID ACCOUNT A system, according to one embodiment, includes a hybrid account provided by an issuer to a user, the hybrid account having a balance, the balance being either positive, zero, or negative; and a financial instrument including a hybrid card, the hybrid card providing acc... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072314 | CUSTOMIZING AN ONLINE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE FOR A USER A method for customizing an online shopping experience for a user is disclosed. The method includes receiving at a marketplace system a request from a user system to transmit instructions for a rendering by the user system of a predetermined user interface relating to a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072306 | Payment Service Provision With Reduced Transaction Costs A method for providing on-line payment services is provided where a payment service provider pays for a plurality of purchases that are made by a user during a plurality of on-line shopping sessions. An authorization is received for the payment service provider to colle... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072305 | TRANSACTION SPLIT FEES A transaction fee imposed by a payment provider may be allocated between the parties to an on-line transaction in any way and at any time. This adds flexibility to the transaction and allows the parties to allocate the transaction fee on a per transaction basis that bes... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054765 | IDENTITY AND SEMAPHORE-BASED QUALITY OF SERVICE Various embodiments described herein include at least one of systems, methods, and software for identity-based thread pool assignment. The identity may identify a source of a request where the source is a user, human or logical, or a network location where the request o... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054134 | GENERATING A PREDICTION FUNCTION Methods and systems to reduce the number of factors or variables that need to be considered in generating a function such as a prediction function. The methods and systems may involve receiving a first set of factors and a data set associated with the first set of facto... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054113 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE ITEM DISPOSAL OPTIONS A method and system to determine disposal options for identified items are discussed. For example, a method can include identifying an item for disposal, determining a disposal option, and presenting the disposal option to a user. The determining a disposal option can i... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054060 | MULTILEVEL SILHOUETTES IN AN ONLINE SHOPPING ENVIRONMENT Selecting a first silhouette image of an item at a client machine displays a plurality of silhouette images representing aspects of the item such as style, length type and sleeve type. Selecting any of those aspects allows a server to search a database for listings of s... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054059 | SIZE MAPPING IN AN ONLINE SHOPPING ENVIRONMENT A method and system for searching for listings of sized items having numerical sizes that are physically equivalent to alpha sizes (S, M, L) of the same type of item. The method comprises enabling the rendering of selectable alpha sizes of an item, the alpha sizes of th... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054056 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ORDER STATUS INFORMATION USING AN UPDATE STATUS FLAG A method and system for providing account status information using an update status flag to receive status information pertaining to a customer account. It is determined whether the received status information is new relative to further status information stored within ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054041 | SHOPPING PROFILE IN AN ONLINE SHOPPING ENVIRONMENT A method and system for creating shopping profiles is provided. The shopping profile includes selected shopping parameters of a user such as size and favorite brands, among others. The system stores a user's shopping profile for a first type of item, and renders the sho... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054026 | INSTRUCTIONAL INTERFACE MACHINE An instructional interface may be provided to a user device by an instructional interface machine. The instructional interface is configured to present a first textual instruction contemporaneously with first media content. The instructional interface is configured to r... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120041854 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING ON-LINE DONATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA CONTENT A computer-implemented method and apparatus for processing on-line donations associated with media content is disclosed. An example embodiment includes elements to integrate a payment button with an associated item of media content on a web page; link the payment button... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041846 | SELLER CONVERSION FACTOR TO RANKING SCORE FOR PRESENTED ITEM LISTINGS Various embodiments include a method and system for a seller conversion factor to ranking score for presented item listings. In an online marketplace with sellers and item listings, a first sum may be calculated by identifying a first set of item listings associated wit... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036256 | SESSION ANALYSIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS A method and system analyze session data. In some embodiments, the method accesses session data, identifies multiple sessions contained in the session data, and identifies multiple events that occurred within each of the multiple sessions. The method determines a tempor... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO FACILITATE A PAYMENT IN SATISFACTION OF ACCUMULATED MICROPAYMENT COMMITMENTS TO A VENDOR Methods and systems for facilitating payments between payors and payees are presented. In an example, a plurality of payment commitments made to a payee is accessed. The plurality of payment commitments are made by a plurality of payors to the payee and contribute to a ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110276432 | FLEXIBLE ASSET AND SEARCH RECOMMENDATION ENGINES 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 recomm... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270738 | AUCTION WITH INTEREST RATE BIDDING A method, apparatus, system and non-transitory machine-readable medium are provided for declining auctions with interest bidding. According to one embodiment, offers are received from respective bidders in a bid receiving process to transact a financial instrument, the ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LISTING ASSISTANCE In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing listing assistance to a user is provided. In example embodiments, a selection of a category is received from a device of the user. A plurality of publications that match the selection of the category is r... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264549 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MARKETPLACE LISTINGS USING A CAMERA ENABLED MOBILE DEVICE Computer-implemented systems and methods for generating marketplace listings using a camera enabled mobile device are described in which a request is received via a camera enabled mobile device to list one or more sale items. An image taken by the camera enable mobile d... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264544 | CURRENCY WEIGHTED CROSS BORDER LISTING EXPOSURE A method and a system for currency weighted cross border listing exposure utilize a favorability factor that may be determined between a first and a second currency. A search may be executed that returns listings in both currencies. A subset of those listings in the sec... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264543 | REVERSE PAYMENT FLOW Systems and methods for facilitating transactions using contactless proximity communication technology include information or payment flows that are reversed from the conventional sense in that information may flow in direction from a merchant via a consumer mobile devi... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20120016776 | DYNAMIC CONTENT FOR ONLINE TRANSACTIONS Various methods and systems are disclosed to provide dynamic content to users of online payment service providers without requiring users to log in or otherwise actively engage the payment service providers. In one example, a method of providing dynamic content includes... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120005739 | LINKED IDENTITIES Methods and systems to automatically respond to make a Super Identity by linking two identities and methods and systems to use the identities include a transaction authorization module that receives a request associated with a first identity record associated with a use... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110321051 | TASK SCHEDULING BASED ON DEPENDENCIES AND RESOURCES An example system identifies a set of tasks as being designated for execution, and the set of tasks includes a first task and a second task. The example system accesses task dependency data that corresponds to the second task and indicates that the first task is to be e... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320343 | PAYMENT LINK In one embodiment, an intended recipient of money transmits a payment link created by the recipient to an intended sender of money, where the link contains a locator to a site of a payment provider, information about the recipient (e.g., email address), and the amount o... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320331 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUBMITTING AN OFFER TO PURCHASE OVER A NETWORK-BASED COMMERCE FACILITY A system and method to facilitate a transaction in a network-based commerce facility is provided. The method includes presenting a plurality of listings to a user, and monitoring selection of one of the plurality of listings by the user. Thereafter, the user is provided... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320019 | DATA MINING SYSTEM A data mining system and method retrieve data related to an item from a database. A survey is generated for presentation in a game. The survey includes the retrieved item data and solicits from a user input data pertaining to the retrieved item data. The input data is r... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314031 | PRODUCT CATEGORY OPTIMIZATION FOR IMAGE SIMILARITY SEARCHING OF IMAGE-BASED LISTINGS IN A NETWORK-BASED PUBLICATION SYSTEM A weighted combination of attributes including but not limited to color, shape, pattern, brand, style, size, and material may be used to rank items when searching for similar items of a given category on an ecommerce system website. The weights on each attribute may be ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313998 | INFORMATION REPOSITORY SEARCH SYSTEM A system for receiving a plurality of search criteria from a plurality of users is disclosed. The plurality of search criteria is for application to a common information repository. The plurality of search criteria includes a first search criterion that is received from... | 12/22/2011 |
