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US 2017/0323358 A1Published application
Evaluating public records of supply transactions
AssigneePanjiva, Inc.
InventorsJames Ryan Psota, Joshua Green
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Abstract
A platform facilitates buyers, sellers, and third parties in obtaining information related to each other's transaction histories, such as a supplier's shipment history, the types of materials typically shipped, a supplier's customers, a supplier's expertise, what materials and how much a buyer purchases, buyer and shipper reliability, similarity between buyers, similarity between suppliers, and the like. The platform aggregates data from a variety of sources, including, without limitation, customs data associated with actual import/export transactions and facilitates the generation of reports as to the quality of buyers and suppliers, the reports relating to a variety of parameters that are associated with buyer and supplier quality.
Claims21
(canceled)
A method, comprising:
- using a computer implemented facility to collect and store a plurality of public records of transactions, the public records of transactions corresponding to a plurality of transactions between a plurality of buyers and a plurality of suppliers;
- determining an inferred entity identifier for each of the plurality of public records of transactions;
- identifying groups of the inferred entity identifiers, wherein each group of the inferred entity identifiers connote a corresponding common entity, wherein the identifying is in response to a similarity of data in the public records of transactions associated with each of the inferred entity identifiers;
- processing a plurality of the groups of inferred entity identifiers to determine public records of transactions of each of the groups of inferred entity identifiers that are inferior candidates to be merged under the corresponding common entity, and removing the inferior candidates from each of the groups of inferred entity identifiers, thereby obtaining a plurality of filtered groups of inferred entity identifiers;
- merging the public records of transactions of each of the filtered groups of inferred entity identifiers into a corresponding filtered common entity record set;
- aggregating the public records of transactions for at least one of the filtered common entity record sets;
- and
- associating an entity type with the common entity in response to the aggregating.
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A method, comprising:
- using a computer implemented facility to collect and store a plurality of public records of transactions, the public records of transactions corresponding to a plurality of transactions between a plurality of buyers and a plurality of suppliers;
- determining an inferred entity identifier for each of the plurality of public records of transactions;
- identifying similarities of data in the public records of transactions associated with each of the inferred entity identifiers;
- generating groups of inferred entity identifiers based on the identified similarities;
- processing the public records of transactions within each group of inferred entity identifiers to identify inferior candidates from each group of inferred entity identifiers, and removing the inferior candidates from each group of inferred entity identifiers, thereby obtaining filtered groups of inferred entity identifiers;
- for each filtered group of inferred entity identifiers, merging the public records of transactions of the group into a corresponding filtered common entity record set;
- and
- aggregating the public records of transactions for at least one corresponding filtered common entity record set.
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A method, comprising:
- using a computer implemented facility to collect and store a plurality of public records of transactions, the public records of transactions corresponding to a plurality of transactions among a plurality of buyers and a plurality of suppliers;
- using the computer implemented facility to collect and store a plurality of records other than public records of transactions associated with at least one of:
- at least a portion of the buyers or at least a portion of the suppliers;
- determining an inferred entity identifier for each of the plurality of public records of transactions and each of the plurality of records other than public records of transactions;
- identifying groups of the inferred entity identifiers, wherein each group of the inferred entity identifiers connote a corresponding common entity, wherein the identifying is in response to a similarity of data in the public records of transactions and the records other than public records of transactions associated with each of the inferred entity identifiers;
- processing a plurality of the groups of inferred entity identifiers to determine inferior candidates of at least one of the public records or the records other than public records of transactions of each of the groups of inferred entity identifiers;
- removing the inferior candidates from each of the groups of inferred entity identifiers, thereby obtaining a plurality of filtered groups of inferred entity identifiers;
- merging the records of each of the filtered groups of inferred entity identifiers into a corresponding filtered common entity record set;
- and
- aggregating at least one of the public records of transactions or the records other than public records of transactions for at least one of the filtered common entity record sets.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.