DETERMINING COMMERCE ENTITY PRICING AND AVAILABILITY BASED ON STYLISTIC HEURISTICS
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for determining an entity characteristic, the method comprising:
- accessing, by a computer, a web page including information associated with an entity, the entity representing a product or service available for purchase at the web page;
generating a visual map representation of one or more elements of the web page, the visual map representation includes stylistic identifiers for the one or more elements;
identifying one or more candidate elements for the entity characteristic, the one or more candidate elements identified from the one or more elements of the visual map representation;
determining, for each candidate element of the one or more candidate elements, a likelihood that the candidate element is a characteristic element of the entity; and
selecting a candidate element of the one or more candidate elements as the characteristic element of the entity by analyzing the determined likelihood of the one or more candidate elements.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a system and method for determining pricing and availability of e-commerce entities. The determination includes accessing a web page that includes an entity of interest and generating a visual map representation of the web page that includes elements related to the entity'"'"'s pricing/availability and stylistic identifiers that are applied to those elements. Stylistic identifiers are pricing/availability identifiers based on stylistic heuristics. Certain elements are identified as candidate elements and a likelihood that a candidate element is pricing/availability element of the entity is determined for the candidate elements. A candidate element is selected as the pricing/availability element of the entity by analyzing the determined likelihood of various candidate elements.
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29 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for determining an entity characteristic, the method comprising:
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accessing, by a computer, a web page including information associated with an entity, the entity representing a product or service available for purchase at the web page; generating a visual map representation of one or more elements of the web page, the visual map representation includes stylistic identifiers for the one or more elements; identifying one or more candidate elements for the entity characteristic, the one or more candidate elements identified from the one or more elements of the visual map representation; determining, for each candidate element of the one or more candidate elements, a likelihood that the candidate element is a characteristic element of the entity; and selecting a candidate element of the one or more candidate elements as the characteristic element of the entity by analyzing the determined likelihood of the one or more candidate elements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A system for determining an entity characteristic, the system comprising:
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a network interface device configured to access a web page including information associated with an entity, the entity representing a product or service available for purchase at the web page; a processor configured to; generate a visual map representation of one or more elements of the web page, the visual map representation includes stylistic identifiers for the one or more elements; identify one or more candidate elements for the entity characteristic, the one or more candidate elements identified from the one or more elements of the visual map representation; determine, for each candidate element of the one or more candidate elements, a likelihood that the candidate element is a characteristic element of the entity; and select a candidate element of the one or more candidate elements as the characteristic element of the entity by analyzing the determined likelihood of the one or more candidate elements.
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29. A computer readable medium configured to store instructions, the instructions when executed by a processor cause the processor to:
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access, by a computer, a web page including information associated with an entity, the entity representing a product or service available for purchase at the web page; generate a visual map representation of one or more elements of the web page, the visual map representation includes stylistic identifiers for the one or more elements; identify one or more candidate elements for the entity characteristic, the one or more candidate elements identified from the one or more elements of the visual map representation; determine, for each candidate element of the one or more candidate elements, a likelihood that the candidate element is a characteristic element of the entity; and select a candidate element of the one or more candidate elements as the characteristic element of the entity by analyzing the determined likelihood of the one or more candidate elements.
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