Cross-Domain Product Tracking via Third-Party Mediator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users lack an easy and automatic system to compare and track products from different competing dealerships across unrelated web domains, making it difficult to compare and receive updates on preferred vehicles.
Innovation Solution
A method that uses embedded codes on different website domains to create a personalized list of viewed products, allowing users to access and compare products across domains, receive alerts, and save favorites, utilizing a third-party server to store and communicate user interactions and preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually track products from different dealership websites, then they can compare products, but the process becomes time-consuming and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third-party server as an intermediary that automatically tracks user interactions with products across multiple dealership websites. This server receives data from embedded codes on different domains, maintains a personalized list of viewed products, and provides comparison functionality, eliminating the need for users to manually track products themselves
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically accumulating product information and creating personalized lists before users need to compare products. The embedded codes on dealership websites pre-track user interactions and store product data in advance, so when users want to compare, the work is already done
2Adaptability or versatility
If users manually visit multiple dealership websites to compare products, then they can see different products, but the system complexity and effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The third-party server provides universal functionality that works across multiple unrelated website domains. The embedded code is designed to be domain-agnostic, allowing the same tracking and comparison system to function on any dealership website, making the solution universally applicable rather than requiring separate systems for each domain
Solution Approach 2:
The third-party server acts as a mediator that bridges unrelated website domains. It receives data from various domains through embedded codes, normalizes the information, and provides unified comparison capabilities, simplifying the complexity that would otherwise exist in coordinating multiple separate website systems
3Loss of information
If no automatic tracking system is used, then website domains remain independent, but users cannot easily access product information from other domains
Solution Approach 1:
The third-party server serves as an intermediary that enables information sharing across independent domains without forcing the domains themselves to become interconnected. It collects product information from various domains through embedded codes and makes it accessible to users, preserving domain independence while enabling cross-domain information access
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the tracking function from the dealership websites themselves. Rather than requiring the websites to implement complex tracking systems, the tracking functionality is segmented into separate embedded codes that run on the user's browser and communicate with a third-party server, keeping the websites simple and independent
Data Source
AI summary
A method of accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by a user on different website domains includes providing a first embedded code on a first website domain and a second embedded code on a second website domain in which the first website domain is different from said second website domain. Each of the embedded codes allows a specified third party server to communicate interactively with the user. The method further includes automatically accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by the user in a database on the specified third party server, wherein the personalized list includes at least a first product and a second product, wherein the first product is on the first website domain and the second product is on the second website domain.