System and method for seller and item filters

• US 20070156566A1
• Filed: 12/30/2005
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Loftus, Josh, Raccah, David, Nash, Adam, Silver, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US11/323,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20070156566A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

A system and method uses seller and item filters to identify items listed on a network based transaction facility that are qualified for a network based elite transaction facility.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

applying qualification filters to each item listed on a network based transaction facility to identify one or more qualified items; and

placing the qualified items on a network based elite transaction facility.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein applying qualification filters further comprises:

applying seller qualification filters to one or more sellers listed on the network based transaction facility to identify one or more qualified sellers.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein placing the qualified items on the network based elite transaction facility further comprises:

creating a filter qualification flag for each item;

identifying items having a filter qualification flag set to qualified; and

placing items having the filter qualification flag set to qualified on the network based elite transaction facility.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein placing the qualified items further comprises:

creating a customer support flag for each item;

identifying items having a customer support flag set to qualified; and

placing items having the customer support flag set to qualified on the network based elite transaction facility.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

identifying items having the customer support flag set to disqualified; and

removing items having the customer support flag set to disqualified from the network based elite transaction facility.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating a seller opt-out flag for one or more sellers;

identifying items of sellers having the seller opt-out flag set to disqualified; and

removing the identified items from the network based elite transaction facility.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

re-applying the qualification filters to the items listed on the network based facility.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said network-based transaction facility is an online auction facility.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the network based transaction facility has a first domain, and the elite transaction facility has a second domain.

10. A system comprising:

a processor that applies qualification filters to each item listed on a network based transaction facility to identify one or more qualified items, and places the qualified items on a network based elite transaction facility.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor applies qualification filters by applying seller qualification filters to the one or sellers listed on the network based transaction facility to identify one or more qualified sellers.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor places the qualified items by creating a filter qualification flag for each item, identifying items having a filter qualification flag set to qualified, and placing items having the filter qualification flag set to qualified on the network based elite transaction facility.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor places the qualified items by creating a customer support flag for each item, identifying items having a customer support flag set to qualified, and placing items having the customer support flag set to qualified on the network based elite transaction facility.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to remove disqualified items by identifying items having the customer support flag set to disqualified and removing items having the customer support flag set to disqualified from the network based elite transaction facility.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to create a seller opt-out flag for one or more sellers, identify items of sellers having the seller opt-out flag set to disqualified, and remove the identified items from the network based elite transaction facility.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to re-apply the qualification filters to the items listed on the network based facility.

17. A computer readable medium storing a program of instructions which, when executed by a processing system, causes the processing system to perform a method comprising:

applying qualification filters to each item listed on a network based transaction facility to identify one or more qualified items; and

placing the qualified items on a network based elite transaction facility.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein applying qualification filters further comprises:

applying seller qualification filters to the one or more sellers listed in the network based transaction facility to identify one or more qualified sellers.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein placing the qualified items further comprises:

creating a filter qualification flag for each item;

identifying items having a filter qualification flag set to qualified; and

placing items having the filter qualification flag set to qualified on the network based elite transaction facility.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein placing the qualified items further comprises:

creating a customer support flag for each item;

identifying items having a customer support flag set to qualified; and

placing items having the customer support flag set to qualified on the network based elite transaction facility.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 20, further comprising:

identifying items having the customer support flag set to disqualified; and

removing items having the customer support flag set to disqualified from the network based elite transaction facility.

22. The computer readable medium of claim 17, further comprising:

creating a seller opt-out flag for one or more sellers;

identifying items of sellers having the seller opt-out flag set to disqualified; and

removing the identified items from the network based elite transaction facility.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 17, further comprising:

re-applying the qualification filters to the items listed on the network based facility.