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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2014
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel Hipschman, San Francisco, CA (US);
James F. Butts, III, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zachary Brock, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abhay Raj Kumar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew O'Connor, San Francisco, CA (US);
SQUARE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Item-level information of a particular item may be processed to categorize the particular item. In some instances, the particular item may be ranked across multiple merchants that are offering the particular item for acquisition. The ranking may be based on the item-level information that relates to an attribute of the particular item for the individual merchants. For example, the item-level information may include a cost of the particular item at a merchant, a rating of the particular item for a merchant, a number of calories of the particular item for a merchant, and so on. Information regarding the ranking may be displayed or otherwise output to enable the user to identify and order the particular item from a merchant that satisfies the user's needs.