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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
May. 08, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for detecting oligopoly in a data processing system, the method comprising: pretending to be a first competing AI pricing engine for a business provider; querying, by a second competing AI pricing engine, the first competing AI pricing engine for a first price; providing, by the first competing AI pricing engine, a plurality of first prices to the second competing AI pricing engine; querying, by the first competing AI pricing engine, the second competing AI pricing engine for a second price; providing, by the second competing AI pricing engine, a plurality of second prices to the second competing AI pricing engine; identifying, by the processor, a correlation between the plurality of first prices and the plurality of second prices using a machine learning technique; and flagging, by the processor, the second competing AI pricing engine, as a possible oligopoly participant.