This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards providing an electronic marketplace to facilitate human performance of programmatically submitted tasks. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7945469 entitled “Providing an electronic marketplace to facilitate human performance of programmatically submitted tasks” on May 17, 2011. The utility patent has been cited 15 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks. In some situations, the tasks to be performed are human performance tasks that use cognitive and other mental skills of human task performers, such as to employ judgment, perception and/or reasoning skills of the human task performers. In addition, in some situations the available tasks are submitted by human task requesters via application programs that programmatically invoke one or more application program interfaces of an electronic marketplace in order to request that the tasks be performed and to receive corresponding results of task performance in a programmatic manner, so that an ensemble of unrelated human agents can interact with the electronic marketplace to collectively perform a wide variety and large number of tasks. Link: U.S. Patent 7945469

Amazon filed this utility patent on November 16, 2004 giving it a processing time of 2373 days (compared to an average processing time of 2312 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 Romain Jeanty and examiner .

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