This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards services for generation of electronic marketplace listings using personal purchase histories or other indicia of product ownership. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7389294 entitled “Services for generation of electronic marketplace listings using personal purchase histories or other indicia of product ownership” on June 17, 2008. The utility patent has been cited 33 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

An online marketplace system provides various features for assisting users in listing products for sale, locating the listings for a product, and performing related actions. A user wishing to sell a product can browse to an existing description of the product in an electronic catalog and then select an option to create a corresponding listing. If the user previously purchased the product via the system, the user may alternatively select the product from a personal purchase history. The system may also proactively send product-specific listing requests to those predicted to own specific products. To create a listing for a selected product, the user preferably specifies the product’s condition and a selling price. The pending listings for a product are preferably displayed or summarized on the product’s detail page in the catalog. In one embodiment, the catalog also servers as a retail sales catalog of an online merchant. Link: U.S. Patent 7389294

Amazon filed this utility patent on May 9, 2002 giving it a processing time of 2231 days (compared to an average processing time of 2004 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 Andrew Joseph Rudy and examiner .

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