Patent ID: 8266014
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of aggregating transactional data, the method comprising: hosting virtual shopping carts, each associated with a respective user, that enables the respective user to store items that are selected from electronic marketplaces of various merchants and to purchase each of the selected items via the virtual shopping cart associated with the respective user; initiating purchases of the items from the virtual shopping carts associated with the users; mapping the items purchased from the electronic marketplaces of the various merchants to a common catalog of items; storing an indication of each item purchased from the various merchants using the common catalog each time a transaction is processed after the initiating of the purchases from the virtual shopping carts; aggregating the indications of the items purchased for a time period to determine a total number of times that each of the items has been purchased across the electronic marketplaces of the various merchants; creating a ranked list of the items based at least in part on the total number of purchases of each of the items; for each of the items, determining a corresponding featured merchant based at least in part on tracking which merchant in the various merchants has the largest number of purchases associated with a respective item; for each of the items, associating the corresponding featured merchant with the respective item in the ranked list, wherein the ranked list does not include merchants other than the featured merchants; and causing a display of at least a portion of the ranked list of the items and each corresponding featured merchant.