Patents by Inventor Paul D. Ohlhaut

Paul D. Ohlhaut has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Price optimization using current offers
    Patent number: 8412560
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for optimizing prices of items using current offers. Numerous current offers to sell an item are determined from a subset of sellers in an electronic marketplace. Each one of the subset of sellers is associated with a respective reputational score that meets a minimum threshold. A competitive price is generated for the item based at least in part on an average marketplace price determined from the current offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Faisal Masud, Stacy Saal, Paul D. Ohlhaut, Josiah P. Olivieri, Umair Bashir, Xiao Yu, Tao Hu