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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2019
Coupa Software Incorporated, San Mateo, CA (US);
Raja Hammoud, Mountain View, CA (US);
Donna Wilczek, Sonoma, CA (US);
Carl Rydbeck, San Mateo, CA (US);
Pallavi Mathane, Mountain View, CA (US);
COUPA SOFTWARE INCORPORATED, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for improving efficiency in an electronic procurement system for sourcing resources, comprising, during digital electronic interactions of a buyer computer with one or more software platforms and without receiving explicit request for recommendations from the buyer computer: automatically generating, at a coding computer, implicit observation data of the buyer computer; automatically determining, at the coding computer, one or more active sourcing events from a plurality of sourcing events, based on at least the implicit observation data of the buyer computer; using the coding computer, causing to display at least one of the one or more active sourcing events in a graphical user interface.