WO1998032289A3 - Method and apparatus for accessing on-line stores - Google Patents

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WO1998032289A3
WO1998032289A3 PCT/US1998/000771 US9800771W WO9832289A3 WO 1998032289 A3 WO1998032289 A3 WO 1998032289A3 US 9800771 W US9800771 W US 9800771W WO 9832289 A3 WO9832289 A3 WO 9832289A3
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Robert B Doorenbos
Oren Etzioni
Daniel S Weld
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This invention provides a computer-implemented agent (5) that assists a user (1) in accessing network linked (4 and 6) on-line stores (7). In one aspect, the invention is a method for intelligently routing a user query to on-line stores (7) relevant to that query, extracting relevant data fields from received responses, and intelligently presenting the extracted data in order of estimated interest. In another aspect, the system of this invention implements one or more steps of the method in a centralized or distributed manner on one or more network linked computers (4 and 6). Further, this invention provides a novel heuristically guided process by which the agent is capable of automatically acquiring sufficient information on the characteristics of on-line stores (7) for it to access and shop at those stores.
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