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Online intelligent multilingual comparison-shop agents for wireless networks

  • US 7,536,323 B2
  • Filed: 03/25/2004
  • Issued: 05/19/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for real-time online search processing over inter-connected computer networks of shopping requests received from a wireless handheld client in a received native language, comprising the steps ofa. communicating with the wireless handheld client through a remote server using XML;

  • b. maintaining in an offline database information for a plurality of vendor sites each having a native language over inter-connected computer networks, wherein the plurality of vendor sites include vendor sites in different native languages, and the maintained information includes URL'"'"'s, search form URL'"'"'s, description of domains, and vendor descriptions and, for each of the plurality of vendor sites, information in the native language of that vendor site, wherein the vendor descriptions include generalized rules about how product information is organized on each of the plurality of vendor sites;

    c. processing a product keyword request, received from the wireless handheld device client in the received native language through the remote server, including using the vendor descriptions to identify ones of the plurality of vendor sites which may have information responsive to and in the received native language of the product keyword request, and using the search form URL'"'"'s;

    d. extracting real-time price and product information from the identified ones of the plurality of vendor sites, wherein the extracted price and product information are in the received native language; and

    e. communicating the extracted real-time price and product information to the wireless handheld device client through the remote server.

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