Systems and methods for vendor intelligence

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11205147-B1
Application number	US-201815909234-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Mar 1, 2018
Priority date	Mar 1, 2018
Publication date	Dec 21, 2021
Grant date	Dec 21, 2021

Abstract

A computing system includes a network interface configured to communicate data over a network, a vendor database configured to retrievable store vendor data related to a vendor of interest, and a processing circuit with a processor and memory. The memory is structured to store instructions that are executable by the processor and cause the processing circuit to identify a vendor of interest; conduct a search of internal documents and external resources to obtain the vendor data related to the vendor of interest, store the vendor data in the vendor database, and generate a vendor performance score based on the vendor data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computing system comprising:
a network interface configured to communicate data over a network;
a vendor database configured to retrievably store vendor data related to a vendor of interest; and
a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory, the memory structured to store instructions that are executable by the processor and cause the processing circuit to:
parse data from a pre-approved unstructured internet-accessible data resource;
generate a searchable external data resource comprising the data structured according to a predetermined format;
generate a plurality of internal data resources comprising a searchable internal data resource and a hidden privacy-preserving internal data resource;
generate a unified data repository in the vendor database, the unified data repository comprising the searchable external data resource and the plurality of internal data resources;
identify the vendor of interest based on an electronically generated internal document;
identify an author of the electronically generated internal document;
obtain the vendor data related to the vendor of interest, comprising operations to:
generate a search term by using machine learning to parse the pre-approved unstructured internet-accessible data resource to determine common misspellings of a name of the vendor of interest; and
search the plurality of internal data resources and the searchable external data resource with the generated search term, wherein the hidden privacy-preserving internal data resource is unavailable to search;

store the vendor data and the electronically generated internal document in the vendor database;
generate a vendor performance score based on the vendor data;
generate a semantic summary regarding the vendor of interest based on the vendor data, comprising using machine learning to translate at least one quantitative aspect of the vendor data into a natural language summary included in the semantic summary; and
transmit a vendor scorecard to a computing device associated with the author of the electronically generated internal document, the vendor scorecard comprising:
the vendor performance score; and
a semantic summary widget comprising the semantic summary.

2. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein:
The searchable external data resource comprises at least one of a crowdsourced review platform, a blog, a news source, a business data aggregator, and a social media platform; and
the plurality of internal data resources comprises at least one of an email, a calendar entry, a contract, a slideshow, a report, an accounting record, an invoice, a letter, a phone call history, or a vendor evaluation form.

3. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the vendor scorecard further comprises a related vendors widget, a relationships widget, a quotes and facts widget, and a graphical visualization of the vendor performance score.

4. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuit is further caused to identify the vendor of interest by monitoring email traffic and detecting an email that mentions the name of a vendor.

5. A method, comprising:
parsing, by a computing system, data from a pre-approved unstructured internet-accessible data resource;
generating a searchable external data resource comprising the data structured according to a predetermined format;
generating a plurality of internal data resources comprising a searchable internal data resource and a hidden privacy-preserving internal data resource;
generating a unified data repository in a vendor database, the unified data repository comprising the searchable external data resource and the plurality of internal data resources;
identifying, by the computing system, a new mention of a vendor of interest, the vendor of interest mentioned in a new internal document created by an author;
obtaining vendor data related to the vendor of interest, comprising operations to:
generate a search term by using machine learning to parse the pre-approved unstructured internet-accessible data resource to determine common misspellings of a name of the vendor of interest; and
search the plurality of internal data resources with the generated search term, wherein the hidden privacy-preserving internal data resource is unavailable to search;

searching, by the computing system, the searchable external data resource for external data corresponding to the vendor;
saving the vendor data and the new internal document in the vendor database;
analyzing, by the computing system, the vendor data to generate a vendor performance score;
generate a semantic summary regarding the vendor of interest based on the vendor data, comprising using machine learning to translate at least one quantitative aspect of the vendor data into a natural language summary included in the semantic summary; and
generating, by the computing system, a user interface configured to display a vendor scorecard to the author of the new internal document, the vendor scorecard comprising:
the vendor performance score; and
a semantic summary widget comprising the semantic summary.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein searching the searchable internal data resource for internal data with the generated search term comprises:
generating internal search criteria;
accessing the searchable internal data resource stored in the unified data repository; and
applying the internal search criteria to the searchable internal data resource to identify internal data that meet the internal search criteria.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein searching the searchable external data resource for external data corresponding to the vendor comprises:
generating external search criteria;
accessing the searchable external data resource over a network via a network interface;
applying the external search criteria to the searchable external data resource to identify external data that meet the external search criteria.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the searchable external data resource comprises at least one of a crowdsourced review platform, a blog, a news source, a business data aggregator, and a social media platform.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of internal data resources comprises at least one of an email, a calendar entry, a contract, a slideshow, a report, an accounting record, an invoice, a letter, a phone call history, or a vendor evaluation form.

10. An apparatus, comprising:
a network interface;
a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory, the memory structured to store instructions that are executable by the processor and cause the processing circuit to:
parse data from a pre-approved unstructured internet-accessible data resource;
generate a searchable external data resource comprising the data structured according to a predetermined format;
generate a plurality of internal data resources comprising a searchable internal data resource and a hidden privacy-preserving internal data resource;
generate a unified data repository in a vendor database, the unified data repository comprising the searchable external data resource and the plurality of internal data resources;
store a list of one or more vendors;
monitor new internal documents and detect a relevant internal document that mentions a vendor of interest from the list of one or more vendors;
obtain vendor data related to the vendor of interest, comprising operations to:
generate a search term by using machine learning to parse the pre-approved unstructured internet-accessible data resource to determine common misspellings of a name of the vendor of interest; and
search the plurality of internal data resources and the searchable exter

Assignees

• Wells Fargo Bank Na

Inventors

• Anderson Ryan
• Kroll Bryan
• Rao Abhijit
• Singh Priyamvada
• Vakili Masoud

Classifications

• G06Q10/06393 Primary

  Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis · CPC title

• G06F16/951

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• G06F16/904

  Browsing; Visualisation therefor (for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957) · CPC title

• G06F16/93

  Document management systems · CPC title