METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ALLIED PRODUCTS

摘要

The method comprises processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product, correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product, comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy, and determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group, creating product specifications based on the determined attributes and storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy.

主权项

1. A method of effecting commerce in a networked computer environment comprising the steps of:
receiving, by a shopping server having a database, identification a user of a client computer; receiving a selection of plural products through an integrated shopping interface of the client computer, based on product information in the database, for purchase from plural merchant servers that are remote from the shopping server; transmitting product information related to the selected products for presentation to the user for confirmation of a purchase; and causing a buy procedure to be executed on the merchant servers for purchase of the selected products from the merchant servers if the user confirms the purchase.