Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Product synthesis from multiple sources
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Application No.: US13693040Application Date: 2012-12-04
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Publication No.: US09384233B2Publication Date: 2016-07-05
- Inventor: Ariel Fuxman , Hoa Nguyen , Juliana Freire de Lima e Silva , Stelios Paparizos , Rakesh Agrawal , Zhimin Chen , Lawrence William Colagiovanni , Prakash Sikchi
- Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agent Dave Ream; Tom Wong; Micky Minhas
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06Q30/02 ; G06Q30/06

Abstract:
Methods and systems for automatically synthesizing product information from multiple data sources into an on-line catalog are disclosed, and in particular, for automatically synthesizing the product information based on attribute-value pairs. Information for a product may be obtained, via entity extraction, feed ingestion, and other mechanisms, from a plurality of structured and unstructured data sources having different taxonomies and schemas. Product information may additionally or alternatively be obtained or derived based on popularity data. The product information may be cleansed, segmented and normalized. The product information may be clustered so closest products, attribute names and attribute values are associated. A representative value for an attribute name may be determined, and the on-line catalog may be updated so that entries are comprehensive, meaningful and useful to a catalog user. Updates from at least 500 million different data sources may be scheduled to occur as frequently as several times daily.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130091159A1 Product Synthesis From Multiple Sources Public/Granted day:2013-04-11
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