Location assignment system and method
US10387947B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 12, 2017 |
| Grant date | Aug 20, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 25, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q30/0603
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A location assignment system and method assigns and stores a location to each item in a retail system product line, across one or more store venues, that otherwise do not include location information, e.g., is not included in planogram data. Specific rules and algorithms assign a location for each product by inferring a location of each product lacking location information from other items that do have a location, and assigning the location of a most popularly sold item in a weighted grouping of given attributes of the item. Thus, given a complete catalog of every product sold in a given retail store system (which often runs in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual products—up to 40% of more of which have no location information within a planogram), the location assignment system assigns a location to every product sold.
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