Method and system to provide feedback data within a distributed e-commerce system
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorMatthew Mengerink
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Abstract
A system and method to provide feedback data within a distributed feedback system of an e-commerce system. Feedback data describing e-commerce transactions are generated by buyers of goods and services and the corresponding sellers of these goods and services. The feedback data is stored and maintained within a set of feedback servers organized into a peer-to-peer network of distributed devices. The feedback data is organized into groupings of feedback data that are stored onto database storage associated with each of the P2P network nodes. Buyers and sellers may search the feedback data from these distributed data sources to obtain reputation data associated with parties with which they propose to enter into new transactions for goods and services.
Claims26
A system for providing feedback data to users within an e-commerce system, the system comprising:
- a peer-to-peer network of feedback servers;
- the feedback servers comprising:
- a feedback data database for storing a portion of a set of feedback data records;
- a feedback map database for storing a topography of the peer-to-peer network and a corresponding organization of the set of feedback data records;
- and
- a distributed feedback anti-fraud module for applying an anti-fraud
- model to determine whether proposed feedback data records may be added
- to the set of feedback data records;
- a consortium server for maintaining the anti-fraud module and for maintaining the topography of the peer-to-peer network and its corresponding organization of the set of feedback data records;
- and
- a plurality of user nodes connecting to the feedback servers to generate search query requests and requests to add feedback data records to the feedback data database.
A method for providing feedback data within an e-commerce system, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a first feedback server, a search query request for feedback data from a user;
- locating, by the first feedback server, one or more feedback servers within a peer-to-peer network of feedback servers to process the request;
- forwarding, by the first feedback server to a second feedback server, the search query request to the one or more feedback servers;
- generating, by the second feedback server, a response to the search query request;
- and
- returning, by the second feedback server to the user, a response to the search query request.
A system for providing feedback data within an e-commerce system, the method comprising:
- a means for receiving a search query request for feedback data from a user;
- a means for locating one or more feedback servers within a peer-to-peer network of feedback servers to process the request;
- a means for forwarding the search query request to the one or more feedback servers;
- a means for generating a response to the search query request;
- and
- a means for returning a response to the search query request to the user.
A machine-readable medium including a set on instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause of the machine to perform a method for providing feedback data within an e-commerce system, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a first feedback server, a search query request for feedback data from a user;
- locating, by the first feedback server, one or more feedback servers within a peer-to-peer network of feedback servers to process the request;
- forwarding, by the first feedback server to a second feedback server, the search query request to the one or more feedback servers;
- generating, by the second feedback server, a response to the search query request;
- and
- returning, by the second feedback server to the user, a response to the search query request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.