Priceline.com Incorporated

Ian Merritt

John Caine

Michael Diliberto

Jim Chen

Amit Poddar

Ronald Henderson

Christine Wong

Will Homes

Nasreen Ali

Murali Gadde

A system and method for translating and matching attributes in data records that describe travel items is provided. In an embodiment, a plurality of records is received from a plurality of data sources. Record parsing logic is used divide strings in the records into individual words and match single words in the plurality of records to attributes. Using the matched attributes, record comparison logic creates a confidence score that describes the likelihood that two records describe the same listing or inventory item. If the confidence score exceeds a given threshold, the records are determined to match. A consolidated record is then created from the two matched records.

Attribute translation and matching from a plurality of data records to create consolidated data records

A system and method for actively updating a data cache is provided. In an embodiment, a plurality of travel listings is received from a plurality of data sources and stored in a data cache. Invalidity prediction instructions are used to determine that a travel listing in the data cache contains inaccurate information. Listing relationship instructions are used to identify listings that are related to the travel listing that contains inaccurate information. Data update requests are then sent to the plurality of data sources for the related listings.

Caching and updating data records based on relationships between the data records

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Norwalk, CT, United States of America

Ian Merritt