INVENTORY AVAILABILITY

摘要

The present disclosure extends to maintaining an item inventory status at an inventory cache management system. The inventory cache may be refreshed regularly by a threshold-based triggering mechanism. In embodiments, as item inventory breaches certain thresholds, the inventory cache may be refreshed with increased frequency to mitigate overselling or underselling scenarios and reduce overall network traffic for items having relatively high inventory levels.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of updating an inventory cache management system, comprising:
at an inventory management application module, receiving an item inventory level quantity; storing the item inventory level quantity at an inventory database; at the inventory management application module, comparing the item inventory level quantity with a predetermined high threshold; if the item inventory level is less than the high threshold, transmitting a first Limited Stock Alert from the inventory management application module to an inventory cache; at the inventory cache, storing an inventory status corresponding to the item inventory level quantity; and from the inventory cache, transmitting the inventory status to a web/app server.