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Providing market feedback associated with electronic commerce transactions to sellers

  • US 9,990,633 B2
  • Filed: 10/24/2007
  • Issued: 06/05/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodied with software, the software when executed using one or more computers programmed to:

  • access a global content directory programmed to execute a search in one or more databases for product data and provide a directory of products using a directory structure in which products are organized using a hierarchical classification system, wherein the product data is not stored in the global content directory, a seller database location of the product data for products contained in a product class identified by a pointer that corresponds to the product class;

    access a translation mechanism configured to convert the product data not stored in the global content directory and stored in the storage location identified by a pointer that corresponds to a product class using non-uniformly formatted attribute data associated with the identified product class into uniformly formatted product data used by the global content directory by matching the non-uniformly formatted attribute data corresponding with the product class with the attribute data used by the global content directory;

    record query information based on a search query of one or more seller databases coupled with seller computer systems comprising product data, the search query performed by buyer computer systems;

    record sort request information based on a sort request of at least one of the buyer computer systems and the seller computer systems;

    record presentation information based on the manner in which two or more search results are presented to the buyer computer system, wherein presentation information comprises an order of results or one or more criteria used to order the results, each search result comprising data for a product matching one or more search criteria specified in the search query, the search results comprising one or more of the two or more search results reflecting product data for a particular seller computer system;

    record selection information based on selection by the buyer computer system of a particular search result from among the two or more search results, the particular search result comprising data for a particular product matching one or more search criteria specified in the search query, wherein the particular product is a product of a seller computer system other than the particular seller computer system;

    sort the particular search result with sort criteria comprising at least one of product attributes, product attribute values, seller attributes, seller attribute values, and data quality;

    provide the recorded query information and at least one of the presentation information and the selection information to the particular seller computer system, such that the particular seller computer system has access to one or more aspects of its product data relative to product data of other seller computer systems;

    facilitate a negotiated transaction between at least one of the buyer computer systems and the seller computer systems using one or more unique identifiers for the product and one or more unique identifiers for the seller computer system;

    record negotiated transactional information associated with the negotiated transaction, wherein the negotiated transactional information comprises a dollar value of the transaction, a number of products in the transaction, a size of the buyer computer system, a size of the seller computer system, a negotiated subject of the transaction, and terms of a negotiated legal document embodying the transaction;

    provide the negotiated transactional information to one or more seller computer systems involved in the transaction and to one or more other seller computer systems; and

    cause the particular seller computer system to modify one or more aspects of its product data of the particular seller computer system to be modified based, at least in part, on the provided recorded query information and negotiated transactional information.

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