This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards contextual presentation of information about related orders during browsing of an electronic catalog. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 6917922 entitled “Contextual presentation of information about related orders during browsing of an electronic catalog” on July 12, 2005. The utility patent has been cited 47 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

An online store system, which may be implemented as a web site or another type of interactive system, presents context-sensitive information to customers about their prior orders during browsing of an electronic catalog of products. In one embodiment, when a customer accesses a detail page for a particular product, the detail page is supplemented with information, such as status information, about a related order placed by the customer. The related order may be an order for the product represented in the detail page or may be for a related product. Information about related orders may additionally or alternatively be added to other types of pages, such as product category pages and shopping cart pages. In one embodiment, a customer’s related order information is maintained in a cache during the customer’s browsing session, and the cache is updated in real time to reflect actions performed by the customer. Link: U.S. Patent 6917922

Amazon filed this utility patent on July 6, 2001 giving it a processing time of 1467 days (compared to an average processing time of 2656 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 James McClellan and assistant examiner M. Thein.

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