Patent ID: 11971932
Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
identifying, by a web crawler, a platform that corresponds to a first set of resource pages, wherein the first set of resource pages is created using the platform, wherein the platform corresponds to a different entity than the first set of resource pages, wherein one or more specified tech signatures or HyperText Markup Language (HTML) tags are embedded within the first set of resource pages, and wherein the web crawler references a database that includes an association between the platform and the one or more specified tech signatures or HTML tags;
determining a plurality of x-paths that corresponds to the identified platform;
identifying a first x-path from the plurality of x-paths that corresponds to accessing a first resource page of the first set of resource pages;
accessing, by the web crawler and utilizing the first x-path, the first resource page, wherein the first resource page includes a product listing page;
identifying a second x-path from the plurality of x-paths that corresponds to adding a first item of one or more items on the product listing page to a digital shopping cart;
determining that the second x-path from the plurality of x-paths is a functional second x-path, wherein the functional second x-path adds the first item to the digital shopping cart;
if the second x-path is the functional second x-path:
adding, by the web crawler and utilizing the second x-path, the first item to the digital shopping cart; and
accessing, by the web crawler and utilizing a third x-path of the plurality of x-paths, a second resource page of the first set of resource pages, wherein the second resource page is a checkout page; or

if the second x-path is not the functional second x-path, accessing, by the web crawler the second resource page using an indexed and validated element corresponding to the second resource page.