公开(公告)号：US20180239781A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-23

申请号：US15961120

申请日：2018-04-24

Applicant: eBay Inc.

Inventor： Jack Phillip Abraham ,  Aaron Adelson ,  Matthew Barto ,  Theodore James Dziuba ,  John Evans ,  Neville Newey ,  Justin Van Winkle

IPC: G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F16/29 ,  G06F16/951

Abstract: Techniques for obtaining geographically-relevant product inventory information, in real-time, from heterogeneous data sources are described. Product inventory information, including the volume of available products in specific geographical locations, is obtained from at least three different sources. First, one or more data feeds may be received. Second, a data obtaining module uses one or more APIs to obtain product inventory information from one or more third-party inventory management systems. Finally, a structured data mining module uses a web crawler, at the direction of a crawler configuration, to systematically obtain product inventory information from various third-party websites. Accordingly, a user's search query is processed to provide geographically relevant product inventory information in near real time.