Ranked entity searching of public transaction records

摘要

A platform facilitates buyers, sellers, and third parties in obtaining information related to each other's transaction histories, such as a supplier's shipment history, the types of materials typically shipped, a supplier's customers, a supplier's expertise, what materials and how much a buyer purchases, buyer and shipper reliability, similarity between buyers, similarity between suppliers, and the like. The platform aggregates data from a variety of sources, including, without limitation, customs data associated with actual import/export transactions and facilitates the generation of reports as to the quality of buyers and suppliers, the reports relating to a variety of parameters that are associated with buyer and supplier quality.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
using a computer implemented facility to collect and store a plurality of public records of transactions among a plurality of buyers and a plurality of suppliers; determining an inferred entity identifier for each of the plurality of records; detecting groups of inferred entity identifiers that each connote a common entity, based on a similarity of data in the records associated with each of the inferred entity identifiers; processing the groups of inferred entity identifiers with a computer searching algorithm, as a computer performance improving action, to remove records that are inferior candidates to be merged under a single entity, thereby obtaining filtered groups of inferred entity identifiers requiring reduced computing resources to be merged into a common entity record set relative to unfiltered groups of inferred entity identifiers; for each filtered group of inferred entity identifiers, merging the records of the group into a common entity record set; aggregating the transaction records for the common entity record set; and providing a user interface whereby a user may search for an entity and retrieve relevant information based at least in part on the aggregated transactions records.