This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards systems and methods that use search queries to identify related lists. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7831548 entitled “Systems and methods that use search queries to identify related lists” on November 9, 2010. The utility patent has been cited 35 times by other U.S. patents in the field of computer technology and in other fields.

Information retrieval systems and methods are disclosed for presenting items of interest to a user of a computer-based data repository, where the items are presented in the form of lists generated by other users. Users of a data repository may generate lists of items from the repository that are accessible by other users. In various embodiments, users generating lists may add supplemental commentary about the items and other personalizing information. The information retrieval systems and methods store the user-generated lists for future presentation to other users. When a user of the data repository submits a search query, items returned in the query’s results are interpreted to be items of interest to the user, and in response, one or more lists determined to be similar to the items of interest are presented to the user. Link: U.S. Patent 7831548

Amazon filed this utility patent on September 30, 2002 giving it a processing time of 2962 days (compared to an average processing time of 2004 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 primary examiner Shahid A Alam and examiner .

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