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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2015
Ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas Normile, Los Altos, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and a system to identify machine-readable codes using a web crawler are provided. Machine-readable codes include, but are not limited to, Universal Product Codes (UPC), quick response (QR) codes, stock-keeping units (SKUs) and international standard book number (ISBN) codes. A web crawler downloads pages from the World Wide Web. A determination module accesses the downloaded pages and identifies a machine-readable code corresponding to a product description included in the downloaded pages. The machine-readable code is included in a downloaded page of the downloaded pages. The determination module further extracts the product description from the downloaded page. A code database stores a record of the machine-readable code and the product description.