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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2012
Jack Phillip Abraham, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aaron Adelson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew Barto, San Francisco, CA (US);
Theodore James Dziuba, San Mateo, CA (US);
John Evans, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Neville Newey, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Justin Van Winkle, San Jose, CA (US);
Jack Phillip Abraham, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aaron Adelson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew Barto, San Francisco, CA (US);
Theodore James Dziuba, San Mateo, CA (US);
John Evans, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Neville Newey, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Justin Van Winkle, San Jose, CA (US);
eBay, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for obtaining geographically-relevant product inventory information, in real-time, from heterogeneous data sources are described. Product inventory information, including the volume of available products in specific geographical locations, is obtained from at least three different sources. First, one or more data feeds may be received. Second, a data obtaining module uses one or more APIs to obtain product inventory information from one or more third-party inventory management systems. Finally, a structured data mining module uses a web crawler, at the direction of a crawler configuration, to systematically obtain product inventory information from various third-party websites. Accordingly, a user's search query is processed to provide geographically relevant product inventory information in near real time.