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Prioritizing product information

  • US 20050108193A1
  • Filed: 04/02/2004
  • Published: 05/19/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer program product tangibly embodied in an information carrier, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed, prioritize associations of products and business entities in a data collection, the computer program product configured to:

  • receive information associating a particular product identified in the data collection with a particular business entity identified in the data collection, wherein the particular business entity is associated in the data collection with multiple data entries that each identify one or more product associations with the particular business entity and each of the multiple data entries has a priority indication associated therewith; and

    storing the multiple data entries in the data collection for use in determining, in response to a received request, which of the multiple data entries associated with the particular business entity includes a higher priority indication and using a data entry of the multiple data entries that includes the higher priority indication to determine whether a product identified in the data collection is associated with the particular business entity.

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