Patent ID: 11907981
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for optimizing clustering and contextual sale of items within a web-based exchange platform, wherein the web-based exchange platform resides in a distributed network, the computer-implemented method comprising:
registering, by one or more processors, two or more users with the web-based exchange platform;
generating, by the one or more processor a user interface of the web-based exchange platform;
creating, by the one or more processor, a profile for the two or more users using the user interface of the web-based exchange platform, wherein the profile corresponding to the two or more users designates the two or more users as a buyer user or a seller user on the web-based exchange platform;
configuring, by the one or more processors, a seller context implementing a ruleset for achieving a goal defined by the at least one of the two or more users designated as the seller user, offering one or more items for sale on the web-based exchange platform, wherein the seller context is based on one or more explicit sale offer, social media activity of the seller user and IoT data of the seller user;
configuring, by the one or more processors, a buying context implementing a ruleset for achieving a goal defined by the at least one of the two or more users designated as the buyer user, wherein the buying context includes time constraints and budget constraints and is based on one or more explicit counteroffer of the buying user, social media activity of the buying user and IoT data of the buying user;
receiving, by a first virtual assistant that is executed by the one or more processors, an online search query from the seller user regarding whether the seller user should sell the one or more items;
responding, by the first virtual assistant that is executed by the one or more processors, to the online search query from the seller user;
receiving, by a second virtual assistant that is executed by the one or more processors, an online search query from the buyer user regarding whether the buyer user should keep certain items associated the one or more items;
responding, by the second virtual assistant that is executed by the one or more processors, to the online search query from the buyer user;
generating, by the one or more processor, clusters of potential buyers from among the two or more users registered with the web-based exchange platform designated with the profile corresponding to the buyer user, for one or more items for sale on the web-based exchange by the seller user using a user classification technique to evaluate a plurality of profiles of the potential buyers, matching the profiles of the potential buyers with subscription interests of the one or more items for sale on the web-based exchange platform, wherein the user classification technique is K-means clustering; and
executing, by the one or more processor, a trial-and-error iterative process determining whether the buyer context of the buyer user selected from the cluster of potential buyers and the seller context conform, wherein conforming occurs upon the buyer ruleset and the seller ruleset being satisfied within a predetermined threshold, facilitating automatic acceptance of a buyer user's outstanding offer to purchase the one or more items for sale and advancing the contextual sale of items to processing of payment on the web-based exchange platform.