Patent ID: 7979323

Claim:
A method for providing pricing information, comprising: receiving, from a first subscriber at a computing device, a request for pricing information of one or more retailers, the request associated with a unit provided by a different retailer from the one or more retailers, wherein the first subscriber comprises the different retailer from the one or more retailers; identifying, at the computing device, pricing information associated with the unit based on mapping information, the pricing information provided by the one or more retailers, and the mapping information mapping the unit to one or more units sold by the one or more retailers; identifying a period of time associated with the different retailer and a date the different retailer updated pricing information associated with the different retailer; determining the different retailer violates the identified period of time based, at least in part, on the identified date; transmitting a request to the different retailer to update the associated pricing information; and denying the different retailer access to the pricing information associated with the one or more retailers.