ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,711, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing a quality score based recommendation" was invented by Chandra Khatri (Atlanta), Steven Hui Luan (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Tanaka (San Ramon, Calif.) and Praveen K. Boinapalli (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more of the systems, apparatuses, or methods discussed herein can include a quality score for a plurality of item listings or collections of item listings. Data sparseness can be avoided, as the quality score is based on inherent properties of the listing. An item listing can be recommen...