Web Content Booking Authenticity Verification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems cannot accurately distinguish between genuine bookings and unavailability caused by other reasons on merchant websites, such as seasonal closures or owner occupancy, leading to unclear travel trends and economic insights.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that compare web content from merchant websites at different times to identify apparent bookings, using additional information about the merchant, geographical area, and other similar merchants to determine the genuineness of bookings, and store genuine bookings in a database for analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If calendar unavailability is used to indicate bookings, then availability information is provided to viewers, but the ability to distinguish genuine bookings from other unavailability reasons is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary verification system that acts as a mediator between the merchant website and the viewer. This system collects additional information from multiple sources (merchant profile, geographic data, similar merchants) to verify whether calendar unavailability represents genuine bookings or other reasons, thereby recovering lost booking authenticity information without requiring direct modification of the merchant's calendar display system
Solution Approach 2:
The verification system performs multiple functions using a unified approach: it collects data from diverse sources (merchant information, geographic area data, similar merchants' bookings), analyzes this information to determine booking authenticity, and provides verification results. This multi-functional system addresses the information loss problem comprehensively without requiring separate specialized systems for each verification aspect
2Measurement precision
If detailed booking information is collected and analyzed, then accurate travel trend insights are obtained, but the time and computational resources required increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-collecting and organizing merchant information, geographic area data, and similar merchants' booking patterns before verification is needed. This preparatory data collection and structuring enables faster real-time verification analysis, reducing the time required when actual booking verification is performed while maintaining high measurement precision
Solution Approach 2:
The verification process is segmented into distinct analytical components: collecting merchant-specific information, analyzing geographic area patterns, comparing with similar merchants, and synthesizing results. This segmentation allows parallel processing of different data sources and reduces overall analysis time while maintaining comprehensive verification accuracy
Data Source
AI summary
Provided are a system and method for determining whether an apparent booking is a genuine or actual booking. Bookings occur in all sorts of industries, such as travel, medical, entertainment, weddings, catering, and the like. In one embodiment, the method includes determining whether an apparent booking identified from a website calendar, and associated with a merchant, is a genuine booking of the merchant or is an unavailability of the merchant not related to a booking. For example, the genuineness of the booking may be determined based on additional information associated with the merchant, a geographic location, other merchants, and the like.