This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards processes for verifying, and accepting content postings from, creators of works represented in an electronic catalog. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7778926 entitled “Processes for verifying, and accepting content postings from, creators of works represented in an electronic catalog” on August 17, 2010. The utility patent has been cited 22 times by other U.S. patents in the field of computer technology and in other fields.

An electronic catalog system provides an interface for users to author and post content for viewing by others. Users who are verified as creators of works represented in the electronic catalog (e.g., authors of books) are additionally granted the capability to post content that is displayed on the catalog pages of such works with attribution to the works’ creators. In one embodiment, the system is capable of verifying a user’s claim to be a creator of a particular work through automated communications with a third party verifier designated by the user. The third party verifier may, for example, be a publisher (in the case of books), a recording company (in the case of musical works), or a motion picture studio (in the case movies). Link: U.S. Patent 7778926

Amazon filed this utility patent on March 29, 2006 giving it a processing time of 1602 days (compared to an average processing time of 1864 in the field). They have a total number of 6869 patents. The first named inventor is Jeffrey P. Bezos of Seattle, WA. The patent was allowed by assistant examiner James D Nigh and primary examiner Calvin L Hewitt, II.

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