IP Ownership · E-Commerce
Who owns the e-commerce patents?
One-click ordering, recommendation systems, digital wallets, and the patents that define online retail.
Patents indexed
88
Total citations
9,310
Top-3 hold
41% of citations
Assignees ranked
10
Ranked by total forward citations — 10 companies
How Amazon's One-Click Ordering Works for Online Purchases
US 5960411 · 1,636 citations
18%
of citations
How to Build Complex Database Searches Using Venn Diagrams
US 5966126 · 859 citations
13%
of citations
How RSA Public-Key Encryption Keeps Digital Messages Secret
US 4405829 · 1,015 citations
11%
of citations
How Websites Remember You Using Stored Data
US 5774670 · 508 citations
10%
of citations
How Websites Get Ranked by Importance
US 6285999 · 818 citations
9%
of citations
Prodigy's System for Interactive Online Information and Shopping
US 5347632 · 808 citations
9%
of citations
How Google Ads Detect Which Web Page You Are Viewing
US 7136875 · 427 citations
6%
of citations
How Stores Make Custom Products On-Demand with Remote Approval
US 4528643 · 498 citations
5%
of citations
How Amazon Optimizes Website Loading Speeds by Managing Domain Requests
US 7930393 · 123 citations
4%
of citations
Rankings by total forward citations within PatentBrief's enriched patent corpus for the E-Commerce technology domain. Forward citations are the industry standard proxy for patent influence and commercial importance. Coverage reflects patents currently indexed; the full USPTO corpus is larger.