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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Apurva Rameshchandra Jadhav, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shashikant Khandelwal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gurpreetsingh Baljeetsingh Sachdev, Fremont, CA (US);
Nikhil Gupta, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes generating a query based on a seed product offer that describes a product being offered for sale and executing the query, using a search engine that normalizes search terms in the query, on a plurality of product offers to determine candidate offers. The candidate offers are likely associated with the product. The method further includes determining one or more common attribute values across corresponding attributes of the candidate offers. The method additionally includes for each attribute value of each candidate offer, scoring the attribute value based on whether it matches one or more of the common attribute values, and updating a set of normalized attribute values for the product to include the attribute value based on whether the score is greater than a predetermined threshold.