Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digitization of a catalog of retail products
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Application No.: US15134457Application Date: 2016-04-21
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Publication No.: US09892437B2Publication Date: 2018-02-13
- Inventor: Nagesha Rao Krishnan , Anbumunee Ponniah , Soumya Prasada , Sudhanshu S. Sar
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Michael O'Keefe
- Main IPC: G06Q30/00
- IPC: G06Q30/00 ; G06Q30/06

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for catalog digitization. A method including receiving observed information including physical attributes of a plurality of products, assigning an importance to each physical attribute, organizing the products into product categories based on the physical attributes and their corresponding importance, determining a product profile for of the products based on the product category of each of the products and a likelihood of any two attributes being observed together with respect to each of the products, identifying a match between two products based on a similarity between the physical attributes of the two products and their corresponding importance, and a comparison between the product profiles of the two products, preparing a product description based on a combination of the physical attributes of the two matching products, and creating a digital product catalog comprising the product description.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170308938A1 DIGITIZATION OF A CATALOG OF RETAIL PRODUCTS Public/Granted day:2017-10-26
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