Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Assessing personality and mood characteristics of a customer to enhance customer satisfaction and improve chances of a sale
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Application No.: US12131084Application Date: 2008-05-31
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Publication No.: US10380603B2Publication Date: 2019-08-13
- Inventor: Travis M. Grigsby , Sunil Kumar Mishra , Viswanath Srikanth
- Applicant: Travis M. Grigsby , Sunil Kumar Mishra , Viswanath Srikanth
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Winstead, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06Q10/00
- IPC: G06Q10/00 ; G06Q30/02

Abstract:
A method, system and computer program product for enhancing customer's satisfaction with his/her shopping experience. Facial motion measurements defined in a model for facial expression recognition are utilized. Features from a magnitude of the facial motion measurements defined in the model are identified. A Bayes classifier is utilized to capture dependences among the features used to recommend a better sales approach to the sales professional, or, alternatively, assign a better sales professional to approach the customer thereby enhancing the customer's shopping experience by reducing the possibility of an unpleasant shopping experience.
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