Source- and venue-specific inventory data processing and identification system

A method for providing attributes associated with a vehicle available in an inventory to a plurality of different venues for providing vehicle information, each venue associated with a respective venue entity, the system comprising:

• accessing at a computing device a vehicle data record comprising a plurality of source-attribute pairs, each source-attribute pair comprising an attribute value corresponding to the vehicle in the inventory and identifying a respective source of the attribute value;
• accessing at the computing device, availability rules specifying which of the plurality of venues are to have available attribute values associated with attribute value sources, wherein the availability rules are based upon business relationships between the venue entity and the attribute value sources, wherein a business relationship comprises one of a sponsored dealer and a manufacturer of the vehicle and a dealer group and a manufacturer of the vehicle;
• accessing at the computing device a vehicle style database comprising a plurality of vehicle styles, each vehicle style comprising reference attribute values shared by vehicles of a particular vehicle style;
• selecting by the computing device one of the plurality of vehicle styles in the vehicle style database using the attribute values of the vehicle data record;
• generating an augmented vehicle data record by adding one or more reference attribute values of the selected vehicle style to the vehicle data record, the one or more reference attribute values comprising attribute values not previously included in the vehicle data record;
• and
• selecting from the augmented vehicle data record, a first set of attribute values to be available to a first one of the plurality of venues by,
• accessing the augmented vehicle data record and the availability rules,
• applying the availability rules to the augmented vehicle data record to identify source-attribute pairs of the augmented vehicle data record that are from sources available to the first venue according to the availability rules, and
• providing a first set of attribute values to the first venue, the first set comprising attribute values of the identified source-attribute pairs.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including computer readable instruction code for causing a computing device to perform a method for providing attributes associated with a vehicle available in an inventory to a plurality of different venues for providing vehicle information, each venue associated with a respective venue entity, the method comprising:

• accessing a vehicle data record comprising a plurality of source-attribute pairs, each source-attribute pair comprising an attribute value corresponding to the vehicle in the inventory and identifying a respective source of the attribute value;
• accessing at the computing device, availability rules specifying which of the plurality of venues are to have available attribute values associated with attribute value sources, wherein the availability rules are based upon business relationships between the venue entity and the attribute value sources, wherein a business relationship comprises one of a sponsored dealer and a manufacturer of the vehicle and a dealer group and a manufacturer of the vehicle;
• accessing a vehicle style database comprising a plurality of vehicle styles, each vehicle style comprising reference attribute values shared by vehicles of a particular vehicle style;
• selecting one of the plurality of vehicle styles in the vehicle style database using the attribute values of the vehicle data record;
• generating an augmented vehicle data record by adding one or more reference attribute values of the selected vehicle style to the vehicle data record, the one or more reference attribute values comprising attribute values not previously included in the vehicle data record;
• and
• selecting from the augmented vehicle data record, a first set of attribute values to be available to a first one of the plurality of venues by,
• accessing the augmented vehicle data record and the availability rules,
• applying the availability rules to the augmented vehicle data record to identify source-attribute pairs of the augmented vehicle data record that are from sources available to the first venue according to the availability rules, and
• providing a first set of attribute values to the first venue, the first set comprising attribute values of the identified source-attribute pairs.