US Patent Issued to eBay on Sept. 15 for "Identifying product items based on surge activity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,796, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Identifying product items based on surge activity" was invented by Satheesh Kumaresan Nair (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vikas Singh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein assist in identifying one or more product items of interest (e.g., high demand product items) based on surge activity, such as user buying surges, user selling surges, and user product listing (e.g., electronic or online listing) surges on an online marketplace system, and can further notify one or more users of selling opportunities of the identified...