US 2019/0156396 A1 · IDENTIFYING PART INTERCHANGES AT ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACES

Abstract

Electronic marketplaces offer a variety of items to customers over the Internet. Where two or more items are interchangeable with or equivalent to one another, such items may be utilized in the same applications and in the same manner, and marketed and sold together as interchanges or equivalents. Such items may be identified as interchangeable with or equivalent to one another based on a qualitative or quantitative score, which may consider any available information or attributes regarding the items, and may increase or decrease over time as the confidence in a determination of interchangeability or equivalence improves or declines. Moreover, such information or attributes may be identified from any source, such as sellers, vendors or manufacturers of the items, and qualitative or quantitative scores indicative of the accuracy or reliability of such information or attributes may be assigned to such sources, as well.

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A computer system configured to present, via a display associated with a computing device, multiple items based on confidence scores indicative of item equivalence, the computer system comprising:

one or more processors;
an electronic database that stores data regarding multiple items offered for sale via an electronic marketplace, wherein the data includes (1) functional attributes associated with at least first and second items, (2) confidence thresholds associated with the first item, (3) a first confidence score indicating a degree of equivalence between the first item and the second item that is based at least in part on a comparison of the functional attributes associated with the first and second items, and (4) a second confidence score indicating the degree of equivalence between the first item and the second item that is based at least in part on an identification, by a seller, of the second item as an equivalent with the first item;
and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer system to at least:
receive, over a communications network from the computing device, at least one of an order for the first item or information regarding a return of the first item;
modify, by the one or more processors, the first confidence score that is based on the comparison of the functional attributes associated with the first and second items based at least in part on at least one of the order for the first item or the return of the first item;
modify, by the one or more processors, the second confidence score that is based on the identification, by the seller, of the second item as an equivalent with the first item based at least in part on at least one of the order for the first item or the return of the first item;
compare, by the one or more processors, the first and second confidence scores and the confidence thresholds associated with the first item;
and
responsive to the first and second confidence scores meeting or exceeding a first confidence threshold of the confidence thresholds, cause the display associated with the computing device to present an item detail page comprising information regarding the first item and second item, wherein the item detail page is configured to present the first item and the second item in a same display format, and wherein the item detail page further comprises indications of the first and second confidence scores;
and
responsive to the first and second confidence scores meeting or exceeding a second confidence threshold of the confidence thresholds and being below the first confidence threshold, cause the display associated with the computing device to present an item detail page comprising information regarding the first item and second item, wherein the item detail page is configured to present the first item in a first display format and the second item in a second display format that is different from the first display format, and wherein the item detail page further comprises indications of the first and second confidence scores.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, over a network, information regarding a first item to be offered for acquisition at an electronic marketplace from a source of the first item, wherein the information regarding the first item comprises a functional attribute of the first item;
identifying, using a computer processor, information regarding a second item offered for acquisition at the electronic marketplace, wherein the information regarding the second item comprises a functional attribute of the second item;
determining, using the computer processor, a degree of equivalence between the first item and the second item based at least in part on the information regarding the first item and the information regarding the second item, wherein determining the degree of equivalence comprises:
calculating, using the computer processor, a first confidence score indicative of the degree of equivalence;
receiving, over the network, at least one of an order for the first item or information regarding a return of the first item;
modifying, using the computer processor, the first confidence score based at least in part on at least one of the order for the first item or the return of the first item;
and
comparing the first confidence score indicative of the degree of equivalence to a first confidence threshold and a second confidence threshold that is less than the first confidence threshold;
responsive to determining that the first confidence score meets or exceeds the first confidence threshold,
generating, using the computer processor, an item detail page comprising at least some of the information regarding at least one of the first item or the second item based at least in part on the degree of equivalence;
and
causing, using the computer processor, a display of the item detail page on a computer display, wherein the item detail page presents the first item and the second item in a first display format;
and
responsive to determining that the first confidence score meets or exceeds the second confidence threshold and is less than the first confidence threshold,
generating, using the computer processor, an item detail page comprising at least some of the information regarding at least one of the first item or the second item based at least in part on the degree of equivalence;
and
causing, using the computer processor, a display of the item detail page on a computer display, wherein the item detail page presents the first item in the first display format and presents the second item in a second display format different from the first display format.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, over a network, information regarding a first item to be offered for acquisition at an electronic marketplace from a source of the first item, wherein the information regarding the first item comprises a functional attribute of the first item;
identifying, using a computer processor, information regarding a second item offered for acquisition at the electronic marketplace, wherein the information regarding the second item comprises a functional attribute of the second item;
determining, using the computer processor, a degree of equivalence between the first item and the second item based at least in part on the information regarding the first item and the information regarding the second item, wherein determining the degree of equivalence comprises:
calculating, using the computer processor, a first confidence score indicative of the degree of equivalence;
calculating, using the computer processor, a second confidence score for the source of the first item indicative of the degree of equivalence, wherein the information regarding the first item identifies the second item as an equivalent of the first item;
receiving, over the network, at least one of an order for the first item or information regarding a return of the first item;
modifying, using the computer processor, at least one of the first confidence score or the second confidence score based at least in part on at least one of the order for the first item or the return of the first item;
and
comparing at least one of the first confidence score or the second confidence score indicative of the degree of equivalence to a first confidence threshold and a second confidence threshold that is less than the first confidence threshold;
responsive to determining that the at least one of the first confidence score or the second confidence score meets or exceeds the first confidence threshold,
selecting at least some of the information regarding the first item or at least some of the information regarding the second item;
generating, using the computer processor, an item detail page comprising the selected at least some of the information regarding at least one of the first item or the second item based at least in part on the degree of equivalence;
and
causing, using the computer processor, a display of the item detail page on a computer display, wherein the item detail page presents the first item and the second item in a same display format;
and
responsive to determining that the at least one of the first confidence score or the second confidence score meets or exceeds the second confidence threshold and is less than the first confidence threshold,
selecting at least some of the information regarding the first item;
generating, using the computer processor, an item detail page comprising the selected at least some of the information regarding the first item based at least in part on the degree of equivalence;
and
causing, using the computer processor, a display of the item detail page on a computer display, wherein the item detail page presents the first item in a first display format and presents the second item in a second display format different from the first display format.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Identifying part interchanges at electronic marketplaces

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