US Patent Issued to eBay on Oct. 20 for "Performance anomaly detection and smart alerting" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,164, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Performance anomaly detection and smart alerting" was invented by Laura Chen (Shanghai), Zichao Liu (Shanghai), Qingbo Yang (Shanghai), Zhenggang Yuan (Shanghai) and Sleven Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein relates to utilizing a performance anomaly detection model to identify performance metrics (e.g., cost-per-click data) that are above an anomaly threshold. For example, communication sessions can be established with one or more servers hosted by one or more third-parties for receiving performance metrics for a first en...