Patent ID: 9361388
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a source system, initial identification data of a listing related to an entity; searching a provider system, by the source system, for one or more listings having identification data matching the initial identification data; receiving, by the source system from the provider system, a plurality of potential matching listings having identification data matching the initial identification data, wherein each listing of the plurality of potential matching listings has a corresponding confidence score assigned by the source system, and wherein each listing of the plurality of potential matching listings has a corresponding provider-supplied external identifier previously assigned by the provider system to identify a potential matching listing; designating, by the source system, a representative listing of the entity located on a provider system from among the plurality of potential matching listings, the representative listing having the highest confidence score assigned by the source system; transmitting, by the source system to the provider system, a request to synchronize the representative listing having the highest confidence score assigned by the source system as the representative listing of the entity on the provider system, the request comprising a first provider-supplied external identifier previously assigned by the provider system to identify the first matching listing; receiving, by the source system from the provider system, an indication that a second listing of the plurality of potential matching listings has been selected by the provider system as the representative listing of the entity on the provider system, the response comprising a second provider-supplied external identifier previously assigned by the provider system to identify the second matching listing; re-designating, by the source system, the second listing as the representative listing of the entity on the provider system and designating the remaining one or more remaining listing of the plurality of potential matching listings as one or more duplicate listings on the provider system; and transmitting, by the source system to the provider system, a request to suppress the remaining one or more listings as one or more duplicate listings, the request to suppress the remaining one or more listings comprising one or more third provider-supplied external identifiers previously assigned by the provider system to identify the remaining one or more listings, wherein the request to suppress the one or more remaining listings as one or more duplicate listings is transmitted to the provider system using a first feed; wherein an acknowledgement to accept the request to suppress the one or more remaining listings as one or more duplicate listings is received by the source system from the provider system using the first feed; and wherein the at least one confirmation that the provider system has suppressed the one or more remaining listings as one or more duplicate listings is received by the source system from the provider system using a second feed.