Global Patent Index - EP 1639505 A4

EP 1639505 A4 20060802 - CONTENT AGGREGATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ON-LINE PURCHASING SYSTEM

Title (en)

CONTENT AGGREGATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ON-LINE PURCHASING SYSTEM

Title (de)

INHALTSANSAMMLUNGSVERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG FÜR EIN ONLINE-KAUFSYSTEM

Title (fr)

PROCEDE D'AGREGATION DE CONTENUS ET DISPOSITIF D'ACHAT EN LIGNE

Publication

EP 1639505 A4 20060802 (EN)

Application

EP 04751173 A 20040429

Priority

  • US 2004013650 W 20040429
  • US 47915303 P 20030618
  • US 65974003 A 20030911

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2005001595A2] 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.

IPC 8 full level

G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01)

IPC 8 main group level

G06F (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

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  • See references of WO 2005001595A2

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2005001595 A2 20050106; WO 2005001595 A3 20050909; EP 1639505 A2 20060329; EP 1639505 A4 20060802; JP 2006527886 A 20061207

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 2004013650 W 20040429; EP 04751173 A 20040429; JP 2006517102 A 20040429