Dynamically generating a reduced item price
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorAlpha Kamchiu Luk
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Abstract
A system may receive information representing a first item and an item price of the first item from a first user device operated by a buyer. The first item may be available for sale by a merchant of a brick-and-mortar store. A plurality of sellers may be identified, the plurality of sellers may list a second item as being available for sale at the calculated reduced item price in an item listing for the second item. Moreover, the second item may be similar to the first item. A reduced item price may be calculated based on the item price of the first item received from the user device, the reduced item price representing a price lower than the item price of the first item. The item listing for the second item available for sale may be presented to the first user device operated by the buyer.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor from a user device, information representing a first item and an item price of the first item available for sale;
- causing to be displayed, at the user device, a first user interface that includes an option to search for a second item at a reduced price;
- calculating a reduced item price based on the item price of the first item and a price range associated with each of a plurality of sellers, the reduced item price representing a price lower than the item price of the first item;
- identifying, in response to receiving a selection of the option to search for the second item at the reduced price, a plurality of item listings that list a second item having similar characteristics to the first item and being available for sale at the reduced item price, the second item being separate from the first item, the plurality of item listings being associated with the plurality of sellers;
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- causing a second user interface to be displayed by the user device in response to the selection of the option to search for the second item at the reduced price, the second user interface displaying the second item.
A system comprising:
- one or more hardware processors;
- memory to store instructions that, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by a processor from a user device, information representing a first item and an item price of the first item available for sale;
- causing to be displayed, at the user device, a first user interface that includes an option to search for a second item at a reduced price;
- calculating a reduced item price based on the item price of the first item and a price range associated with each of a plurality of sellers, the reduced item price representing a price lower than the item price of the first item;
- identifying, in response to receiving a selection of the option to search for the second item at the reduced price, a plurality of item listings that list a second item having similar characteristics to the first item and being available for sale at the reduced item price, the second item being separate from the first item, the plurality of item listings being associated with the plurality of sellers;
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- causing a second user interface to be displayed by the user device in response to the selection of the option to search for the second item at the reduced price, the second user interface displaying the second item.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by a processor from a user device, information representing a first item and an item price of the first item available for sale;
- causing to be displayed, at the user device, a first user interface that includes an option to search for a second item at a reduced price;
- calculating a reduced item price based on the item price of the first item and a price range associated with each of a plurality of sellers, the reduced item price representing a price lower than the item price of the first item;
- identifying, in response to receiving a selection of the option to search for the second item at the reduced price, a plurality of item listings that list a second item having similar characteristics to the first item and being available for sale at the reduced item price, the second item being separate from the first item, the plurality of item listings being associated with the plurality of sellers;
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- causing a second user interface to be displayed by the user device in response to the selection of the option to search for the second item at the reduced price, the second user interface displaying the second item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.