US Patent Issued to EBAY on Oct. 7 for "Method, medium, and system for social media-based recommendations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,328, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method, medium, and system for social media-based recommendations" was invented by Valerie Nygaard (Saratoga, Calif.) and Ryan Lindsey Helft (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user may request a recommendation for an item from other users. Other users may respond to the request by recommending for or against items. Users may up-vote or down-vote the recommendations or responses of other users. The recommendations of the other users may be used to identify items and provide one or more recommendations to the requesting user. The original question and...