Product and content association
AssigneeTransform Sr Brands LLC
InventorsEui Chung, Bharath Sridharan, Seyed Alireza Forouzan Ebrahimi
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed regarding an e-commerce system that maintains references between products and relevant content. In some embodiments, methods and/or apparatus obtain content from one or more content providers via a computer network, identify a product from a product catalog of an electronic database that is related to the obtained content; and update references to relevant content maintained in an electronic database for the product to include a reference to the obtained content.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- via a computing device:
- receiving content from a plurality of content providers via a network interface of the computing device;
- updating an electronic database to include one or more content references that associate one or more products of a product catalog to one or more relevant items of the received content;
- in response to a request for a product listing for a particular product from the product catalog:
- presenting the product listing for the particular product;
- presenting one or more stored content references from a set of stored content references;
- and
- in response to an activation of a stored content reference, presenting the relevant item identified by the stored content reference.
A non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising instructions, that in response to being executed, cause a computing device to:
- receive content from a plurality of content providers via a network interface of the computing device;
- update an electronic database to include one or more content references that associate one or more products of a product catalog to one or more relevant items of the received content;
- in response to a request for a product listing for a particular product from the product catalog:
- present the product listing for the particular product;
- present one or more stored content references from a set of stored content references;
- and
- in response to activation of a stored content reference of the one or more stored content references, presenting the relevant item identified by the stored content reference.
A computing system, comprising
- a network interface;
- an electronic database comprising a product catalog having a plurality of product listings for a plurality of products;
- and
- a processor, wherein execution of instructions stored in a memory of the computing system, causes the processor to:
- receive, via the network interface, content from a plurality of content providers via a network coupled to the computing system;
- update the electronic database to include one or more content references that associate one or more products of a product catalog to one or more relevant items of the received content;
- in response to a request for a product listing for a particular product from the product catalog:
- present the product listing for the particular product;
- present one or more stored content references from the set of stored content references;
- and
- in response to activation of a stored content reference of the one or more stored content references, present the relevant item identified by the stored content reference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.