Amazon.com, Inc.

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Patent applications and USPTO patent grants for Amazon.com, Inc..The latest application filed is for "services for enabling users to share information regarding e-commerce transactions".

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Amazon.com, Inc. - Seattle WA US
Amazon.com, Inc. - Suite 1200 1200 12th Avenue South Seattle WA

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Patent	Date
Services for enabling users to share information regarding E-commerce transactions via user created communities Grant 9,747,629 - Bezos , et al. August 29, 2	2017-08-29
Automatically initiating product replenishment Grant 9,324,042 - Agarwal April 26, 2	2016-04-26
Placing a purchase order using one of multiple procurement options Grant 9,092,817 - Allocca , et al. July 28, 2	2015-07-28
Services For Enabling Users To Share Information Regarding E-commerce Transactions App 20140222615 - Bezos; Jeffrey P. ; et al.	2014-08-07
System For Implementing A Network-based User Referral Program App 20140172527 - Bezos; Jeffrey P. ; et al.	2014-06-19
User Authentication In An Auction System App 20140172617 - Roseman; Neil ; et al.	2014-06-19
Services for enabling users to share information regarding E-commerce transactions Grant 8,744,929 - Bezos , et al. June 3, 2	2014-06-03
System for implementing a performance-based customer referral program Grant 8,732,011 - Bezos , et al. May 20, 2	2014-05-20
User authentication in an auction system Grant 8,700,485 - Roseman , et al. April 15, 2	2014-04-15
Automated Detection And Exposure Of Behavior-based Relationships Between Browsable Items App 20140100986 - Linden; Gregory D. ; et al.	2014-04-10
Predictive Prefetching To Reduce Document Generation Times App 20140082149 - Snodgrass; Ryan J. ; et al.	2014-03-20
Placing A Purchase Order Using One Of Multiple Procurement Options App 20140025541 - Allocca; William ; et al.	2014-01-23
Payment service capable of being integrated with merchant sites Grant 8,626,665 - Bui January 7, 2	2014-01-07
Recommendations based on items viewed during a current browsing session Grant 08620767 -	2013-12-31
Recommendations based on items viewed during a current browsing session Grant 8,620,767 - Linden , et al. December 31, 2	2013-12-31
Network based payment service capable of generating coding for adding payment objects to pages of external sites Grant 8,612,343 - Bezos , et al. December 17, 2	2013-12-17
Predictive prefetching to improve parallelization of data retrieval subtasks Grant 8,566,788 - Snodgrass , et al. October 22, 2	2013-10-22
Payment service that applies user-specified rules to divide payment amounts among multiple payment instruments Grant 8,554,675 - Gupta , et al. October 8, 2	2013-10-08
Play History Based Detection Of Similar Digital Works Or Work Creators App 20130254065 - Harbick; Andrew V. ; et al.	2013-09-26
Placing a purchase order using one of multiple procurement options Grant 8,543,462 - Allocca , et al. September 24, 2	2013-09-24
Recommendations Based On Items Viewed During A Current Browsing Session App 20130198030 - Linden; Gregory D. ; et al.	2013-08-01
Internet-based customer referral system Grant 8,494,923 - Bezos , et al. July 23, 2	2013-07-23
Payment Service Capable Of Being Integrated With Merchant Sites App 20130179345 - Bui; Hong Q.	2013-07-11
Playlist-based detection of similar digital works and work creators Grant 8,468,046 - Harbick , et al. June 18, 2	2013-06-18
Discovery of behavior-based item relationships Grant 8,433,621 - Linden , et al. April 30, 2	2013-04-30
Discovery of behavior-based item relationships based on browsing session records Grant 8,407,105 - Linden , et al. March 26, 2	2013-03-26
Payment service capable of being integrated with merchant sites Grant 8,355,959 - Bui January 15, 2	2013-01-15
Combining disparate purchases into a single purchase order for billing and shipment Grant 8,341,036 - Hartman , et al. December 25, 2	2012-12-25
Incremental updates of items Grant 8,341,513 - Lattyak , et al. December 25, 2	2012-12-25
Referring-site based recommendations Grant 8,285,589 - Snodgrass , et al. October 9, 2	2012-10-09
Mining of user-generated playlists for data regarding relationships between digital works Grant 8,260,656 - Harbick , et al. September 4, 2	2012-09-04
Using inferred information about recurring gift giving events of users to provide messaging to affilated users Grant 8,244,598 - Jacobi , et al. August 14, 2	2012-08-14
Automated gifting Grant 8,234,177 - Nguyen , et al. July 31, 2	2012-07-31
Methods and systems for processing distributed feedback Grant 8,229,782 - Adams , et al. July 24, 2	2012-07-24
Method and system for bidding on multiple auctions Grant 8,224,710 - Kumar July 17, 2	2012-07-17
Dynamic generation of documents Grant 8,201,082 - Nordstrom , et al. June 12, 2	2012-06-12
Automatically Initiating Product Replenishment App 20120136741 - Agarwal; Amit D.	2012-05-31
Services for enabling users to share information regarding E-commerce transactions Grant 8,180,689 - Bezos , et al. May 15, 2	2012-05-15
Contextual presentation on electronic catalog pages of information reflective of prior orders Grant 8,165,923 - Bezos , et al. April 24, 2	2012-04-24
Payment service capable of being integrated with merchant sites Grant 8,160,935 - Bui April 17, 2	2012-04-17
Creating an incentive to author useful item reviews Grant 8,140,380 - Keller , et al. March 20, 2	2012-03-20
Item recommendation service Grant 8,140,391 - Jacobi , et al. March 20, 2	2012-03-20
Predictive prefetching to improve parallelization of document generation subtasks Grant 8,136,089 - Snodgrass , et al. March 13, 2	2012-03-13
Automatically initiating product replenishment Grant 8,126,784 - Agarwal February 28, 2	2012-02-28
Transaction processing system that applies user-specified rules to divide payment amounts among multiple payment instruments Grant 8,099,361 - Gupta , et al. January 17, 2	2012-01-17
Contextual presentation on electronic catalog pages of information reflective of prior orders Grant 8,027,884 - Bezos , et al. September 27, 2	2011-09-27
Computer processes for identifying related items and generating personalized item recommendations Grant 8,024,222 - Jacobi , et al. September 20, 2	2011-09-20
System for interactive participation by remote bidders in live auctions Grant 8,010,415 - Friedland , et al. August 30, 2	2011-08-30
Method and System for Bidding on Multiple Auctions App 20110208608 - Kumar; Suresh	2011-08-25
Content personalization based on actions performed during browsing sessions Grant 7,970,664 - Linden , et al. June 28, 2	2011-06-28
System and methods for facilitating transactions on, and personalizing web pages of, third party web sites Grant 7,966,259 - Bui June 21, 2	2011-06-21
Method and system for bidding on multiple auctions Grant 7,958,009 - Kumar June 7, 2	2011-06-07
Computer processes for identifying related items and generating personalized item recommendations Grant 7,945,475 - Jacobi , et al. May 17, 2	2011-05-17
Services for increasing the utility of electronic wish lists Grant 7,925,546 - Jacobi , et al. April 12, 2	2011-04-12
Computer processes for identifying related items and generating personalized item recommendations Grant 7,921,042 - Jacobi , et al. April 5, 2	2011-04-05
Method and system for electronic commerce using multiple roles Grant 7,912,756 - Spiegel , et al. March 22, 2	2011-03-22
Recommendation system Grant 7,908,183 - Jacobi , et al. March 15, 2	2011-03-15
Payment service capable of being invoked from merchant sites Grant 7,877,299 - Bui January 25, 2	2011-01-25
User Authentication In An Auction System App 20100312664 - Roseman; Neil ; et al.	2010-12-09
Identifying and providing targeted content to users having common interests Grant 7,827,055 - Snodgrass , et al. November 2, 2	2010-11-02
Anonymous delivery of digital products over a network via a link Grant 7,805,336 - Seal , et al. September 28, 2	2010-09-28
Method and system for authenticating users when conducting commercial transactions using a computer Grant 7,801,775 - Roseman , et al. September 21, 2	2010-09-21
Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network Grant 7,792,705 - Bezos , et al. September 7, 2	2010-09-07
Personalization using multiple personalized selection algorithms Grant 7,765,130 - McQueen, III , et al. July 27, 2	2010-07-27
Use of browser cookies to store structured data Grant 7,747,649 - Benson June 29, 2	2010-06-29
Placing a purchase order using one of multiple procurement options Grant 7,720,712 - Allocca , et al. May 18, 2	2010-05-18
Method and system for electronic commerce using multiple roles Grant 7,716,088 - Spiegel , et al. May 11, 2	2010-05-11
Computer-assisted funds transfer system Grant 7,689,487 - Britto , et al. March 30, 2	2010-03-30
Data mining of user activity data to identify related items in an electronic catalog Grant 7,685,074 - Linden , et al. March 23, 2	2010-03-23
Computer-assisted funds transfer system Grant 7,685,067 - Britto , et al. March 23, 2	2010-03-23
Contextual presentation of information about related orders during browsing of an electronic catalog Grant 7,672,874 - Bezos , et al. March 2, 2	2010-03-02
Creating an incentive to author useful item reviews Grant 7,672,868 - Keller , et al. March 2, 2	2010-03-02
Methods and systems for distributing information within a dynamically defined community Grant 7,664,669 - Adams , et al. February 16, 2	2010-02-16
Method and system for integrating transaction mechanisms over multiple internet sites Grant 7,660,744 - Philippe , et al. February 9, 2	2010-02-09
Use of browser cookies to store structured data Grant 7,660,816 - Benson February 9, 2	2010-02-09
Collecting competitive pricing information via a merchant web site for use in setting prices on the merchant web site Grant 7,660,738 - Siegel , et al. February 9, 2	2010-02-09
Marketplace system capable of using purchase history data to generate listing request messages Grant 7,614,547 - Kotas , et al. November 10, 2	2009-11-10
Marketplace system that supports user-to-user sales via a definitive product catalog Grant 7,614,552 - Roseman , et al. November 10, 2	2009-11-10
Marketplace system in which users generate preorder listings via a definitive product catalog Grant 7,600,682 - Bezos , et al. October 13, 2	2009-10-13
System and method for providing active tags Grant 7,548,914 - Bell , et al. June 16, 2	2009-06-16
Method, system, and computer readable medium for the selection of content items for presentation to users Grant 7,536,320 - McQueen, III , et al. May 19, 2	2009-05-19
User-to-user payment service with payee-specific pay pages Grant 7,536,351 - Leblang , et al. May 19, 2	2009-05-19
Use of shopping cart to collect and purchase items selected from multiple web sites Grant 7,512,548 - Bezos , et al. March 31, 2	2009-03-31
Metadata service that supports user-to-user sales via third party web pages Grant 7,497,369 - Dalzell , et al. March 3, 2	2009-03-03
Marketplace system in which users generate and browse user-to-user preorder listings via a definitive products catalog Grant 7,493,274 - Bezos , et al. February 17, 2	2009-02-17
Sharing information about purchases Grant 7,478,054 - Adams , et al. January 13, 2	2009-01-13
User interfaces and methods for facilitating user-to-user sales Grant 7,472,077 - Roseman , et al. December 30, 2	2008-12-30
Methods and systems for distributing information within a dynamically defined community Grant 7,433,832 - Bezos , et al. October 7, 2	2008-10-07
Automatically identifying similar purchasing opportunities Grant 7,428,500 - Linden September 23, 2	2008-09-23
Creating an incentive to author useful item reviews Grant 7,428,496 - Keller , et al. September 23, 2	2008-09-23
Interactive time-limited merchandising program and method for improved online cross-selling Grant 7,418,405 - Utter , et al. August 26, 2	2008-08-26
Services for generation of electronic marketplace listings using personal purchase histories or other indicia of product ownership Grant 7,389,294 - Kotas , et al. June 17, 2	2008-06-17
Network-based crossing paths notification service Grant 7,386,464 - Robertson , et al. June 10, 2	2008-06-10
Personalized promotion of new content Grant 7,376,588 - Gregov , et al. May 20, 2	2008-05-20
Managing the release of electronic content using a template without version logic Grant 7,373,594 - Lopez , et al. May 13, 2	2008-05-13
Network based user-to-user payment service Grant 7,356,507 - Bezos , et al. April 8, 2	2008-04-08
Services for increasing the utility of electronic wish lists Grant 7,356,490 - Jacobi , et al. April 8, 2	2008-04-08
Internet-based customer referral system Grant 7,337,133 - Bezos , et al. February 26, 2	2008-02-26
Predictive prefetching to improve parallelization of document generation subtasks Grant 7,331,038 - Snodgrass , et al. February 12, 2	2008-02-12
Selecting prospective bidders to whom to promote an online auction based upon bidding history Grant 7,318,042 - Kotas January 8, 2	2008-01-08
Personalized selection and display of user-supplied content to enhance browsing of electronic catalogs Grant 7,310,612 - McQueen, III , et al. December 18, 2	2007-12-18
Method, system and medium for assisting a user in evaluating a merchant in an electronic marketplace Grant 7,308,425 - Bezos , et al. December 11, 2	2007-12-11
Generating current order fulfillment plans based on expected future orders Grant 7,295,990 - Braumoeller , et al. November 13, 2	2007-11-13
Inventory commingling and reconciliation of inaccuracies Grant 7,289,969 - Ballenger , et al. October 30, 2	2007-10-30
Notification service for assisting users in selecting items from an electronic catalog Grant 7,254,552 - Bezos , et al. August 7, 2	2007-08-07
Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network Grant 7,222,087 - Bezos , et al. May 22, 2	2007-05-22
Network-based system for facilitating interactive participation by remote bidders in live auctions Grant 7,216,103 - Friedland , et al. May 8, 2	2007-05-08
Computer-based funds transfer system Grant 7,194,437 - Britto , et al. March 20, 2	2007-03-20
Network-based personal contact manager and associated methods Grant 7,194,419 - Robertson , et al. March 20, 2	2007-03-20
Method and system for suppression of features in digital images of content Grant 7,149,353 - Siegel , et al. December 12, 2	2006-12-12
Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items Grant 7,130,820 - Song October 31, 2	2006-10-31
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling delivery of digital products to users Grant 7,117,167 - Seal , et al. October 3, 2	2006-10-03
Personalized recommendations of items represented within a database Grant 7,113,917 - Jacobi , et al. September 26, 2	2006-09-26
Method and system for publicizing commercial transactions on a computer network Grant 7,107,227 - Bezos , et al. September 12, 2	2006-09-12
Providing gift clustering functionality to assist a user in ordering multiple items for a recipient App 20060178946 - Agarwal; Amit D.	2006-08-10
Purchase notification service for assisting users in selecting items from an electronic catalog Grant 7,082,407 - Bezos , et al. July 25, 2	2006-07-25
Increases in sales rank as a measure of interest Grant 7,058,599 - Hanks , et al. June 6, 2	2006-06-06
Identifying items relevant to a current query based on items accessed in connection with similar queries Grant 7,050,992 - Bowman , et al. May 23, 2	2006-05-23
Continuous item picking in a distribution center using coordinated item picking periods Grant 7,031,801 - Hodge , et al. April 18, 2	2006-04-18
Coordinating delivery of a gift Grant 7,006,989 - Bezos , et al. February 28, 2	2006-02-28
Providing gift clustering functionality to assist a user in ordering multiple items for a recipient Grant 6,999,941 - Agarwal February 14, 2	2006-02-14
Maintaining the currency of availability information for bundles of items Grant 6,990,488 - Chenault January 24, 2	2006-01-24
Computer services for assisting users in locating and evaluating items in an electronic catalog based on actions performed by members of specific user communities Grant 6,963,850 - Bezos , et al. November 8, 2	2005-11-08
Methods and system of obtaining consumer reviews Grant 6,963,848 - Brinkerhoff November 8, 2	2005-11-08
Universal protocol for enabling a device to discover and utilize the services of another device Grant 6,952,715 - Kronz October 4, 2	2005-10-04
Hidden agent transfer protocol Grant 6,941,374 - Kronz September 6, 2	2005-09-06
Contextual presentation of information about related orders during browsing of an electronic catalog Grant 6,917,922 - Bezos , et al. July 12, 2	2005-07-12
Use of product viewing histories of users to identify related products Grant 6,912,505 - Linden , et al. June 28, 2	2005-06-28
Method and system for displaying and editing of information Grant 6,907,315 - Hartman , et al. June 14, 2	2005-06-14
Method and system for information exchange between users of different web pages Grant 6,889,250 - Bezos , et al. May 3, 2	2005-05-03
Method and system for integrating transaction mechanisms over multiple internet sites Grant 6,882,981 - Philippe , et al. April 19, 2	2005-04-19
Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items Grant 6,865,546 - Song March 8, 2	2005-03-08
Content personalization based on actions performed during a current browsing session Grant 6,853,982 - Smith , et al. February 8, 2	2005-02-08
Software application and associated methods for generating a software layer for structuring semistructured information Grant 6,851,089 - Erickson , et al. February 1, 2	2005-02-01
System and method for locating web-based product offerings Grant 6,785,671 - Bailey , et al. August 31, 2	2004-08-31
Search query refinement using related search phrases Grant 6,772,150 - Whitman , et al. August 3, 2	2004-08-03
Extraction of bank routing number from information entered by a user Grant 6,760,470 - Bogosian , et al. July 6, 2	2004-07-06
Method and system for integrating transaction mechanisms over multiple internet sites App 20040098316 - Philippe, Yan ; et al.	2004-05-20
Crossing paths notification service Grant 6,714,916 - Robertson , et al. March 30, 2	2004-03-30
Use of browser cookies to store structured data Grant 6,714,926 - Benson March 30, 2	2004-03-30
Universal protocol for enabling a device to discover and utilize the services of another device Grant 6,675,196 - Kronz January 6, 2	2004-01-06
Method and system for electronic commerce using multiple roles Grant 6,629,079 - Spiegel , et al. September 30, 2	2003-09-30
Method and system for navigating within a body of data using one of a number of alternative browse graphs Grant 6,625,609 - McDade , et al. September 23, 2	2003-09-23
Method and system for displaying and editing of information Grant 6,615,226 - Hartman , et al. September 2, 2	2003-09-02
Method and system for providing a discount at an auction Grant 6,606,608 - Bezos , et al. August 12, 2	2003-08-12
Computer processes for selecting nodes to call to attention of a user during browsing of a hierarchical browse structure Grant 6,606,619 - Ortega , et al. August 12, 2	2003-08-12
Electronic gift certificate system Grant 6,594,644 - Van Dusen July 15, 2	2003-07-15
Method and apparatus for creating extractors, field information objects and inheritance hierarchies in a framework for retrieving semistructured information Grant 6,571,243 - Gupta , et al. May 27, 2	2003-05-27
Search query autocompletion Grant 6,564,213 - Ortega , et al. May 13, 2	2003-05-13
Auction notification system Grant 6,549,904 - Ortega , et al. April 15, 2	2003-04-15
Method for creating an information closure model Grant 6,539,378 - Gupta , et al. March 25, 2	2003-03-25
Method and system for conducting a discussion relating to an item Grant 6,525,747 - Bezos February 25, 2	2003-02-25
System and method for exposing popular categories of browse tree Grant 6,489,968 - Ortega , et al. December 3, 2	2002-12-03
System and method for exposing popular nodes within a browse tree Grant 6,466,918 - Spiegel , et al. Oc	2002-10-15
Distributed live auction Grant 6,449,601 - Friedland , et al. September 10, 2	2002-09-10
Method and apparatus for changing temporal database information Grant 6,442,543 - Snodgrass , et al. August 27, 2	2002-08-27
Method and apparatus for creating extractors, field information objects and inheritance hierarchies in a framework for retrieving semistructured information App 20020062312 - Gupta, Ashish ; et al.	2002-05-23
Method for creating an information closure model App 20020062222 - Gupta, Ashish ; et al.	2002-05-23
Method and system for generation of hierarchical search results Grant 6,366,910 - Rajaraman , et al. April 2, 2	2002-04-02
Use of electronic shopping carts to generate personal recommendations Grant 6,317,722 - Jacobi , et al. November 13, 2	2001-11-13
Collaborative recommendations using item-to-item similarity mappings Grant 6,266,649 - Linden , et al. July 24, 2	2001-07-24
System and method for selecting rows from dimensional databases having temporal dimention Grant 6,233,573 - Bair , et al. May 15, 2	2001-05-15
Identifying the items most relevant to a current query based on items selected in connection with similar queries Grant 6,185,558 - Bowman , et al. February 6, 2	2001-02-06
Method and apparatus for changing temporal database Grant 6,185,556 - Snodgrass , et al. February 6, 2	2001-02-06
Electronic gift certificate system Grant 6,175,823 - Van Dusen January 16, 2	2001-01-16
System and method for refining search queries Grant 6,169,986 - Bowman , et al. January 2, 2	2001-01-02
System and method for correcting spelling errors in search queries Grant 6,144,958 - Ortega , et al. November 7, 2	2000-11-07
System and methods for collaborative recommendations Grant 6,064,980 - Jacobi , et al. May 16, 2	2000-05-16
Internet-based customer referral system Grant 6,029,141 - Bezos , et al. February 22, 2	2000-02-22
Method and apparatus for producing sequenced queries Grant 5,999,924 - Bair , et al. December 7, 1	1999-12-07
Method for data gathering around forms and search barriers Grant 5,963,949 - Gupta , et al. October 5, 1	1999-10-05
Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network Grant 5,960,411 - Hartman , et al. September 28, 1	1999-09-28
Secure method for communicating credit card data when placing an order on a non-secure network Grant 5,727,163 - Bezos March 10, 1	1998-03-10
Secure method and system for communicating a list of credit card numbers over a non-secure network Grant 5,715,399 - Bezos February 3, 1	1998-02-03

Company Registrations

NCAGE Code	1Y7C8	AMAZON COM INC
NCAGE Code	3FWD2	AMAZON COM INC
CAGE Code	1Y7C8	AMAZON COM INC
CAGE Code	3FWD2	AMAZON COM INC
SEC	0001018724	AMAZON COM INC of DELAWARE