ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,632, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Search engine optimization by selective indexing" was invented by Satya Voleti (Milpitas, Calif.), Ganesh Talele (Milpitas, Calif.), Atiq ul Islam (Jericho, Calif.) and Ritu Goel (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments involve a system and methods for identifying valuable view item pages for search engine optimization. The system and methods provide an improvement over existing systems, which do nothing to identify or select valuable view item pages for use in driving traffic from display sites. The system and methods described herein...