Content aggregation method and apparatus for on-line purchasing system
First Claim
1. A method of creating a product catalog stored on computer readable media by aggregating product information from a plurality of product information sources having disparate formats for product information and storing the information in a taxonomy, said method comprising:
- processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product;
correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product;
comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy; and
determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group;
creating product specifications based on the determined attributes; and
storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy.
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Abstract
The method comprises processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product, correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product, comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy, and determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group, creating product specifications based on the determined attributes and storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy.
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72 Claims
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1. A method of creating a product catalog stored on computer readable media by aggregating product information from a plurality of product information sources having disparate formats for product information and storing the information in a taxonomy, said method comprising:
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processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product;
correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product;
comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy; and
determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group;
creating product specifications based on the determined attributes; and
storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 33, 39, 40)
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23. A method of creating a product catalog stored on computer readable media by aggregating product information from a plurality of product information sources having disparate formats for product information, said method comprising:
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processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product;
correlating a unique product ID corresponding to an identified product for each of said groups;
comparing each identified product to categories of in a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy;
repeating the processing and correlating steps after performing the comparing step to revise which groups said plural product information records fall into;
determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group;
creating product specifications based on the determined attributes; and
storing the product specifications in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 37, 41, 42)
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34. A method of aggregating product information from a plurality of product information sources in a networked computer environment comprising the steps of:
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generating a crawler from a server interconnected to the network computer environment to visit the plurality of sources;
gathering product phrase information and characteristics of said product phrase information from each of the plurality of sources via said crawler; and
creating a catalog of products based on the product phrase information and characteristics of said product phrase information. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 38, 43, 44, 57, 58)
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45. A system for creating a product catalog by aggregating product information from a plurality of product information sources having disparate formats for product information and storing the information in a taxonomy, said method comprising:
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means for processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product;
means for correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product;
means for comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy; and
means for determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group;
means for creating product specifications based on the determined attributes; and
means for storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 72)
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66. A system for aggregating product information from a plurality of product information sources in a networked computer environment of a comprising:
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means for generating a crawler from a server interconnected to the network computer environment to visit the plurality of sources;
means for gathering product phrase information and characteristics of said product phrase information from each of the plurality of sources via said crawler; and
means for creating a catalog of products based on the product phrase information and characteristics of said product phrase information. - View Dependent Claims (67, 68, 69, 70)
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