This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards information retrieval systems and methods that use user-defined lists to identify related offerings. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7966334 entitled “Information retrieval systems and methods that use user-defined lists to identify related offerings” on June 21, 2011. The utility patent has been cited 22 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management 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. The online activities of a user of the data repository are monitored, and, in response to the user indicating an interest in an item, one or more lists determined to be similar to the indicated item are presented to the user. Link: U.S. Patent 7966334

Amazon filed this utility patent on September 30, 2002 giving it a processing time of 3186 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 Hosain T Alam and assistant examiner Navneet K Ahluwalia.

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