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Method and system to provide wanted ad listing within an e-commerce system

  • US 7,698,169 B2
  • Filed: 11/30/2004
  • Issued: 04/13/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing buyer request listings using an e-commerce system including a commerce server and a client coupled to a network, the method including:

  • creating via the commerce server a buyer request listing for an item wanted to be purchased by a buyer;

    automatically determining by the commerce server a listing category for the buyer request listing using a title and an item description thereof, by;

    generating by the commerce server a frequency distribution for categories of existing buyer request listings containing description information matching item description information anddetermining by the commerce server the best listing category having the highest frequency distribution;

    posting by the buyer via the commerce server the buyer request listing into the listing category;

    receiving via an interface of the client responses to the buyer request listings from a seller, where each of the responses references an item that is already offered for sale on the e-commerce system;

    purchasing by the buyer via the commerce server an item that was provided in one of the responses to the buyer request listings; and

    automatically deleting by the commerce server the buyer request listing from a database within the commerce server after a predetermined period time.

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