DETERMINING COMMERCE ENTITY PRICING AND AVAILABILITY BASED ON STYLISTIC HEURISTICS

摘要

Disclosed is a system and method for determining pricing and availability of e-commerce entities. The determination includes accessing a web page that includes an entity of interest and generating a visual map representation of the web page that includes elements related to the entity's pricing/availability and stylistic identifiers that are applied to those elements. Stylistic identifiers are pricing/availability identifiers based on stylistic heuristics. Certain elements are identified as candidate elements and a likelihood that a candidate element is pricing/availability element of the entity is determined for the candidate elements. A candidate element is selected as the pricing/availability element of the entity by analyzing the determined likelihood of various candidate elements.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for determining an entity characteristic, the method comprising:
accessing, by a computer, a web page including information associated with an entity, the entity representing a product or service available for purchase at the web page; generating a visual map representation of one or more elements of the web page, the visual map representation includes stylistic identifiers for the one or more elements; identifying one or more candidate elements for the entity characteristic, the one or more candidate elements identified from the one or more elements of the visual map representation; determining, for each candidate element of the one or more candidate elements, a likelihood that the candidate element is a characteristic element of the entity; and selecting a candidate element of the one or more candidate elements as the characteristic element of the entity by analyzing the determined likelihood of the one or more candidate elements.