Abstract: This invention is a system for providing persistence searching for consumer items that performs the steps of: retrieving a set of get requests uniquely associated with external vendor sites wherein each get request is specifically formatted for its external vendor site and simultaneously transmitting the set of get requests to the respective external vendor sites. Asynchronously receiving current results from the external vendor sites, extracting the price from the current results for each item contained in the current results received from the external vendor sites, comparing the extracted price of the current results with the price of a previously stored results, generating a notification and including in the notification, a link to the external vendor site to provide a purchasing opportunity to a user where the price of the current results is lower than the price of the stored results.

Abstract: The present invention is a system that performs a real time on-demand searching for items such as goods or services with specific search criteria, and returns a set of search results that are deduped and can be updated when modifications to the search results occur. The functionality is provided by a idempotence search system having a user agent that asynchronously receives search results from user's remote computing devices, a set of fetchers for retrieving search results from associated external site and organizing the results in a results queue, a plurality of parser operating in parallel, a broadcaster wherein the user agent includes retrieving the difference from the delta queue, retrieving the results associated with the difference and displaying the results for the user.

Abstract: This invention is a system for determining non-abstract consumer demand for an item comprising: a user agent, an aggregator and a sales agent for transmitting the quantity price demand information to a supplier computer system, receiving an initial price and quantity of the discrete item being offered by the supplier from the supplier computer system, setting the current price to the initial price, (a) transmitting the discrete item information to remote computer systems that represent the user's desire for the discrete item, (b) waiting an predetermined period of time, (c) reducing the quantity of items available by the number sold during the predetermined period of time, (d) reducing the current price and performing steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) until: (i) the quantity of items available is reduced to zero or (ii) a sale termination period is reached or (iii) a maximum price reduction has been reached.

Abstract: The present invention is a system that performs a real time on-demand searching for items such as goods or services with specific search criteria, and returns a set of search results that are deduped and can be updated when modifications to the search results occur. The functionality is provided by a idempotence search system having a user agent that asynchronously receives search results from user's remote computing devices, a set of fetchers for retrieving search results from associated external site and organizing the results in a results queue, a plurality of parser operating in parallel, a broadcaster wherein the user agent includes retrieving the difference from the delta queue, retrieving the results associated with the difference and displaying the results for the user.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a computerized system for asynchronously receiving persistent query requests, selecting a subset from the plurality of persistent query requests for a particular item, ordering the subset of persistent query requests into a plurality of equal range brackets between the highest desired price to the lowest desired price, receiving a set of sales program criteria from the vendor computer system created in response to the vendor computer system previously receiving the subset of persistent query requests having available quantity and available price information for the items available for sale from the vendor, determining the number of available items from the sales program criteria having available prices that are within a first desired range bracket, and transmitting a notification to the remote computer devices associated with the query results having available prices in the first range bracket.

Abstract: This invention is a system for providing persistence searching for consumer items that performs the steps of: retrieving a set of get requests uniquely associated with external vendor sites wherein each get request is specifically formatted for its external vendor site and simultaneously transmitting the set of get requests to the respective external vendor sites. Asynchronously receiving current results from the external vendor sites, extracting the price from the current results for each item contained in the current results received from the external vendor sites, comparing the extracted price of the current results with the price of a previously stored results, generating a notification and including in the notification, a link to the external vendor site to provide a purchasing opportunity to a user where the price of the current results is lower than the price of the stored results.