This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards collecting competitive pricing information via a merchant web site for use in setting prices on the merchant web site. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7660738 entitled “Collecting competitive pricing information via a merchant web site for use in setting prices on the merchant web site” on February 9, 2010. The utility patent has been cited 23 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

A facility for collecting pricing information is described. The facility serves a web page to a client computing system. The served web page contains a first control operable to order a selected item from a selected vendor. The web page further contains a second control operable to submit a price charged for the selected item by a vendor other than the selected vendor. At a later time, the facility receives from the client computing system information that indicates that the second control has been operated to submit a price charged for the selected item by a vendor other than the selected vendor. Link: U.S. Patent 7660738

Amazon filed this utility patent on April 28, 2003 giving it a processing time of 2479 days (compared to an average processing time of 2465 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 assistant examiner Adam Levine and primary examiner Jeffrey A. Smith.

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