This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards purchase notification service for assisting users in selecting items from an electronic catalog. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7082407 entitled “Purchase notification service for assisting users in selecting items from an electronic catalog” on July 25, 2006. The utility patent has been cited 191 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

A computer service monitors online browsing of an electronic catalog by a user, and notifies the user when a catalog item being accessed is one that has been purchased by an affiliated user, such as a contact or a fellow community member. The notification may include the contact information of the affiliated user, and/or may provide an option to send a message to the affiliated user. Link: U.S. Patent 7082407

Amazon filed this utility patent on August 19, 1999 giving it a processing time of 2532 days (compared to an average processing time of 1974 in the field). They have a total number of 158 patents. The first named inventor is Jeffrey P. Bezos of Seattle, WA. The patent was allowed by primary examiner Jeffrey A. Smith and assistant examiner Naeem Haq.

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