Patent ID: 9576310
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for normalizing an item UPC comprising: receiving, at a user computing device, a product code, wherein the product code follows a code schema; at a UPC identification module of the user computing device, identifying the code schema; at a UPC normalization module of the user computing device, converting the product code to a normalized UPC by converting the code schema associated with the product code to a normalized UPC code schema; querying a cache storage of the user computing device using the entire normalized UPC as a cache lookup key; if querying the cache storage results in a cache miss, querying a UPC database using the entire normalized UPC as the cache lookup key; at a cache query module of the user computing device, receiving a query result corresponding to the normalized UPC; and at a display of the user computing device, rendering product information corresponding to the product code.