Ensuring appearance of merchant offering in network sites

摘要

The present disclosure involves ensuring that items sold by a merchant appear in certain network pages. A network page is automatically accessed in a computing device. The network page is generated by a referral network site that displays at least one offering of an item by at least one competitor merchant. A unique identifier associated with the item is identified from the network page in the computing device. The unique identifier is stored in association with the item in a data store accessible to the computing device. The item and the unique identifier are included in a feed sent from the computing device of a merchant to the referral network site. The feed includes a listing of the item and a plurality of other items, wherein the item and the other items are offered for sale by the merchant.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a program executable by a computer system, comprising:
code that maintains a listing of items offered for sale through an electronic commerce system that comprises a network presence of an entity, wherein the electronic commerce system facilitates a sale of a plurality of items by the entity; code that automatically accesses a network page generated by a comparison shopping network site, the network page displaying a plurality of offerings for an item among the listing of items by a plurality of competitor entities, wherein an offering for the item by the entity is erroneously omitted from the network page; code that identifies a unique identifier associated with the item from the network page and stores the unique identifier in association with the item offered for sale through the electronic commerce system, the unique identifier being specified by a taxonomy used by the comparison shopping network site, the taxonomy used by the comparison shopping network site being different than a separate taxonomy used by the electronic commerce system; code that includes the unique identifier in association with the offering for the item into a feed generated for the comparison shopping network site, wherein the feed is sent from a computing device to the comparison shopping network site; and code that accesses the network page in response to sending the feed to the comparison shopping network site and verifies whether the offering for the item by the entity appears in the network page.