US Patent 11030652 Systems and methods for facet discovery

This application relates generally to systems and methods for identification of facets for associated items in a datastore. In an embodiment, a method performed by a computing device includes: receiving, from a supplier device, a first item dataset characterizing a first item purchasable on a sales platform. The method also includes associating the first item with a facet in accordance with an instruction from an internal merchant device, where the facet is separate from the first item dataset, and where the facet may be selected to differentiate the first item from a second item purchasable on the sales platform. The method also includes retrieving the facet from a datastore in response to an item request from a customer device. The method also includes retrieving the first item dataset from a datastore in response to a selection of the facet from the customer device.