Patents by Inventor James Matthew Olson

James Matthew Olson 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).

  • Methods and systems for intermingling hetergeneous listing types when presenting search results
    Patent number: 8224814
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for managing how merchandise listings satisfying a search query are processed and presented to a user of a computer-based trading or e-commerce application when the listings are of heterogeneous types. Consistent with some embodiments, in response to a user-initiated search query, item listings and product listings are displayed intermingled in a set of search results pages. The item listings and product listings are positioned relative to one another, in part, based on a level of demand associated with the product listings and the item listings, where demand is measured by monitoring user-initiated activities in connection with the item and product listings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: James Matthew Olson, Ken Sun, Suchisubhra Sinha, Rangaraj Keshavamurthy Belur
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERMINGLING HETERGENEOUS LISTING TYPES WHEN PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS
    Publication number: 20110087654
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for managing how merchandise listings satisfying a search query are processed and presented to a user of a computer-based trading or e-commerce application when the listings are of heterogeneous types. Consistent with some embodiments, in response to a user-initiated search query, item listings and product listings are displayed intermingled in a set of search results pages. The item listings and product listings are positioned relative to one another, in part, based on a level of demand associated with the product listings and the item listings, where demand is measured by monitoring user-initiated activities in connection with the item and product listings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: James Matthew Olson, Ken Sun, Suchisubhra Sinha, Rangaraj Keshavamurthy Belur