Patent ID: 9607331
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method to reduce same merchant near-duplicate entries in online shopping system search results, comprising: for each pair of entries in a set of entries from the same merchant, each entry characterizing a product in a data store of an online shopping system and each entry characterized by a set of quantified attributes, determining, by one or more computing devices, a distance between the entries in the pair in a vector space of the quantified attributes; determining, by the one or more computing devices, clusters of entries as a function of the determined distance between each pair of entries; receiving, by the one or more computing devices, a query directed to the data store; and returning, by the one or more computing devices, an ordered list of results responsive to the query from the data store of an online shopping system, filtered by at least one of the following: