Method and apparatus for optimizing promotional sale of products based upon historical data
US6029139A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 28, 1998 |
| Grant date | Feb 22, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 28, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q30/0273
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system for optimizing the promotional sale of a product, a product segment, or a category which may take into account related products or competing products comprising means for generating a three-dimensional data structure corresponding to the sales history for a product, the data structure dimensions corresponding to an event type domain, a time domain, and a unit of measurement domain, means for populating the three-dimensional data structure, a neural network, means for training the neural network and means for applying sales objectives and constraints to the neural network.
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