US Patent Issued to eBay on March 4 for "Method, medium, and system for generating and ordering item offer themes" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,094, issued on March 4, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method, medium, and system for generating and ordering item offer themes" was invented by Saratchandra Indrakanti (San Jose, Calif.), Sriganesh Madhvanath (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Gyanit Singh (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating themes for different item offers is described. An item listing system receives a request for a target item and generates themes for the target item by grouping offers based on their properties. The item listing system then determines a display order for the themes based on user behavior data. The item listing system the...