IDENTIFYING PART INTERCHANGES AT ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACES

摘要

Electronic marketplaces offer a variety of items to customers over the Internet. Where two or more items are interchangeable with or equivalent to one another, such items may be utilized in the same applications and in the same manner, and marketed and sold together as interchanges or equivalents. Such items may be identified as interchangeable with or equivalent to one another based on a qualitative or quantitative score, which may consider any available information or attributes regarding the items, and may increase or decrease over time as the confidence in a determination of interchangeability or equivalence improves or declines. Moreover, such information or attributes may be identified from any source, such as sellers, vendors or manufacturers of the items, and qualitative or quantitative scores indicative of the accuracy or reliability of such information or attributes may be assigned to such sources, as well.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon,
wherein the instructions, when executed, cause a computer having at least one computer processor to perform a method comprising:
receiving a request to offer a proposed item for sale at an electronic marketplace from a seller over a network, wherein the request comprises functional attributes of the proposed item;receiving an identification of an available item as an equivalent to the proposed item from the seller over the network;identifying functional attributes of the available item;calculating a confidence score indicative of a relationship between the available item and the proposed item based at least in part on a comparison of the functional attributes of the proposed item to the functional attributes of the available item;calculating a confidence score for the seller based at least in part on at least one of the identification of the available item as the equivalent to the proposed item received from the seller or the confidence score indicative of the relationship between the available item and the proposed item; andcausing a display of an item detail page comprising information regarding the proposed item.