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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2021
Vast.com, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Chad Matthew Bockius, Austin, TX (US);
David Wayne Franke, Austin, TX (US);
Jason Michael Duke, Austin, TX (US);
Danil P. Suits, Waltham, MA (US);
Glenn Elliot Goldenberg, Austin, TX (US);
Davor Kracanovic, Belgrade, RS;
VAST.COM, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
An e-commerce backbone system for facilitating a unified marketplace for unique items includes: a dealer system interface configured to communicate over a computer network with a plurality of dealer marketplace systems; a normalization engine configured to: translate data received from the plurality of dealer marketplace systems into data compliant with a standardized data model; and translate data sent to the plurality of dealer marketplace systems from data compliant with the standardized data model into data compliant with requirements of each individual dealer marketplace system; a dealer mappings database configured to store mappings that define translation methods for each individual dealer marketplace system; and a marketplace application programming interface (API) engine configured to present an API for sending and receiving data from one or more unified marketplace systems.