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Price mining prevention systems and related methods

  • US 10,389,752 B2
  • Filed: 12/14/2016
  • Issued: 08/20/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for preventing an unwanted access source from mining pricing information on an online retail website by:

  • detecting, by one or more computer processors, an access to a particular web page containing pricing information;

    determining, by one or more computer processors, whether a source of the access is an individual employed by one or more competitors of a company that owns the particular web page being accessed; and

    at least partially in response to determining that the individual is employed by one or more competitors of a company that owns the particular web page being assessed, taking, by one or more computer processors, one or more defensive actions against the source of the access, wherein the one or more defensive actions comprise automatically blocking, by a processor, the source of the access from further access to the particular web page.

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