Platform-based cross-retail product categorization

US12014383B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• NCR Voyix Corporation · US

Inventors

• Itamar David Laserson · Givat Shmuel, IL
• Rotem Chudin · Kfar Sava, IL
• Julie Dvora Katz Ohayon · Ashdod, IL
• Moshe Shaharur · Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 30, 2020
• Grant date: Jun 18, 2024
• Expiry date: May 22, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0204
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A culture is defined that spans multiple retailers. Transaction data from the multiple retailers are processed to map barcoded item codes to a culture item vector space. Any non-barcoded item for a given retailer associated with the culture is linked to a most similar barcoded item of that retailer based on a retailer-specific item vector space. The distances between the mapped barcoded item codes of the culture item vector space are processed to cluster the barcoded item codes into classifications within the culture vector space. Each retailers non-barcoded items are associated to the classifications of the culture item vector space based on their linkages to the retailers' specific barcoded items, which are already mapped within the culture item vector space. Each item code of a given retailer's item catalogue is linked to its corresponding classification.