Patents by Inventor Rolf Skyberg

Rolf Skyberg 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).

  • Publication number: 20100063864
    Abstract: Some embodiments may provide a method and a system for receiving, from a first user, a first evaluation indication with respect to a first publication, and in response to receiving the first evaluation indication, automatically initiating a secondary evaluation process comprising automatically selecting a set of publications including at least a second publication; presenting a first user interface affordance to elicit a selection indication indicating a publication from among the set of publications, receiving a selection indication indicating the second publication, and in response to receiving the selection indication, presenting a second user interface affordance to elicit a second evaluation indication with respect to the second publication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Alan Lewis, Rolf Skyberg
  • Publication number: 20090055263
    Abstract: A system for promoting shopping information on a social networking platform. At the social networking platform, the system receives a request from a first user of the network-based social platform to request a second user of the network-based social platform to accept an agreement to facilitate promotion of an advertisement in association with the second user on the network-based social platform. The advertisement facilitates a sale of at least one item offered for sale by the first user on a network-based marketplace. Next, the system receives of an acceptance of the agreement from the second user to facilitate promotion of the advertisement in association with the second user on the network-based social platform. Finally, the system promotes the advertisement in association with the second user on the network-based social platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Trisha Lee Okubo, Yuan Der Ho, Choon Chong, Rolf Skyberg, Massimiliano Mancini, Adam Trachtenberg, Philip Law
  • Publication number: 20090055285
    Abstract: A system for viewing shopping information on a social networking platform. At the social networking platform, the system receives a request from a first user of the social networking platform to view a list associated with a second user on the social networking platform. The list may include items offered for sale on a network-based marketplace. Next, the system determines the first user is authorized to view the list associated with the second user. Finally, the system communicates the list of items to the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Philip Law, Yuan Der Ho, Choon Chong, Rolf Skyberg, Massimiliano Mancini, Adam Trachtenberg, Trisha Lee Okubo
  • Publication number: 20090055291
    Abstract: A system that receives, at a network-based social platform, a request from a first user of the network-based social platform. The request is to add an item to a list associated with a second user of the network-based social platform. The list is for watching items offered for sale on a network-based marketplace. Next, the system determines whether the first user is authorized to add the item to the list associated with the second user based on relationship information that identifies a predetermined relationship between the first user and the second user on the network-based social platform. Finally, the system communicates the request to the network-based marketplace to add the item to the list associated with the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Yuan Der Ho, Choon Chong, Rolf Skyberg, Massimiliano Mancini, Adam Trachtenberg, Trisha Lee Okubo, Philip Law
  • Publication number: 20070233611
    Abstract: A method and system to verify a transaction are described. The system may include a token generator to issue a client set of tokens to a client, a token verification list generator to issue a verification set of tokens to a provider, a communication module to receive a request from the provider to redeem a provider set of tokens, and a redemption module. The redemption module may be configured to compare the provider set of tokens with the client set of tokens and to selectively redeem the provider set of tokens based on the results of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Mark Boyd, Rolf Skyberg