Cross-Website Request Capture for Unified Item Search
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional website search methods for finding specific items are time-consuming and error-prone, requiring users to repeatedly search across multiple websites with varying search capabilities, often resulting in inefficiencies and failures to find desired items.
Innovation Solution
A system that captures request data from multiple websites using web-components to extract and analyze user search parameters, generates user profiles, and identifies matching items across different inventories, facilitating seamless item discovery and loan prequalification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users repeatedly search across multiple websites to find desired items, then they can access various inventories, but the process becomes time-consuming and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third-party search system that acts as an intermediary between users and multiple retailer websites. This mediator automatically captures search requests from various websites, aggregates the results, and presents them in a unified interface, eliminating the need for users to manually visit each website individually and thus reducing search time while maintaining access to multiple inventories
Solution Approach 2:
The search system is designed to universally handle search requests from different websites and inventories through a single unified interface. It can process search queries across multiple retailer websites simultaneously, aggregate results from diverse inventories, and present them consistently, making the system multi-functional and adaptable to various search scenarios without requiring users to learn different search procedures for each website
2Ease of operation
If users manually search on each website, then they can control search parameters, but the process is error-prone due to varying search capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The third-party search system serves as a mediator that standardizes search parameter handling across different websites. It captures search requests, normalizes the parameters according to each website's requirements, and manages the search execution, thereby maintaining ease of operation while improving reliability by eliminating errors associated with manual navigation of varying search interfaces
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where search results from multiple websites are aggregated and presented back to the user in a unified manner. This feedback loop allows users to see comprehensive results across all searched inventories simultaneously, improving search accuracy and reliability while maintaining ease of operation through consistent result presentation
Data Source
AI summary
The method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium embodiments described herein capture request data from requests transmitted on websites. In various embodiments, a server receives an HTML file including content of a first website from a web-component configured to extract the content of the first website. The content includes information about a search that was executed on the first website and returned a set of items. The server generates a profile of the user based on the information about the search in the HTML file and identifies a new item that corresponds to the profile. The server further detects authentication details of the user on a second website based on the user identifier and causes display of item data of the new item and the set of items on the second website in response to detecting the authentication details of the user.