ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,962, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System integration using an abstraction layer" was invented by Yi Liu (Shanghai), Qingyu Ji (Shanghai), Sizhong Liu (Shanghai), Chinmaya Dubey (Seattle), Bin Li (Shanghai), Peijun Xu (Shanghai) and Mustafa Attiqullah (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for integrating various different advertisement platforms using different advertisement channels includes generating a logic campaign in an abstract layer. A basic unit is defined in the abstract layer by abstracting aspects of different advertisement campaign structures. The basic unit can be co...