COMPETITIVE PRICING PLATFORM AND MANAGED INVENTORY REPOSITORY
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- identifying a current price for a first product being offered for sale on a first retailer website;
identifying a second product in a product inventory of a second retailer website that matches the first product, the second product being offered for sale on a product listing page hosted by the second retailer website;
monitoring a current price of the second product being offered for sale on the product listing page hosted by the second retailer website;
comparing the current price of the second product with the current price of the first product; and
determining that the current price of the first product offered for sale on the first retailer website corresponds to a competitive deal, based on the comparison.
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Abstract
Techniques for competitive pricing analysis and inventory management are described. According to various exemplary embodiments, a competitive pricing system is configured to crawl competitor websites for comparative pricing information at various time intervals. Moreover, the competitive pricing system is configured to determine if a price for an item on a home retailer website represents a “deal”, based on information crawled from competitor websites. According to various exemplary embodiments, a managed inventory repository system may enable improved identification of deals and specials within an inventory of a retailer website. For example, the managed inventory repository system may perform data mining operations to identify deals or specials offered for inventory items on a home retailer website. In some embodiments, a “special” can be defined in a variety of ways to suit different business units, campaigns, metrics, etc.
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1. A method comprising:
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identifying a current price for a first product being offered for sale on a first retailer website; identifying a second product in a product inventory of a second retailer website that matches the first product, the second product being offered for sale on a product listing page hosted by the second retailer website; monitoring a current price of the second product being offered for sale on the product listing page hosted by the second retailer website; comparing the current price of the second product with the current price of the first product; and determining that the current price of the first product offered for sale on the first retailer website corresponds to a competitive deal, based on the comparison. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus comprising:
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a crawling module configured to; identify a current price for a first product being offered for sale on a first retailer website; identify a second product in a product inventory of a second retailer website that matches the first product, the second product being offered for sale on a product listing page hosted by the second retailer website; and monitor a current price of the second product being offered for sale on the product listing page hosted by the second retailer website; and a determination module configured to; compare the current price of the second product with the current price of the first product; and determine that the current price of the first product offered for sale on the first retailer website corresponds to a competitive deal, based on the comparison. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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19. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having embodied thereon instructions executable by one or more machines to perform operations comprising:
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identifying a current price for a first product being offered for sale on a first retailer website; identifying a second product in a product inventory of a second retailer website that matches the first product, the second product being offered for sale on a product listing page hosted by the second retailer website; monitoring a current price of the second product being offered for sale on the product listing page hosted by the second retailer website; comparing the current price of the second product with the current price of the first product; and determining that the current price of the first product offered fir sale on the first retailer website corresponds to a competitive deal, based on the comparison. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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