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Product placement engine and method

US7505969B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 5, 2004
Grant dateMar 17, 2009
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Expiry dateNov 6, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99942
  • WIPO fieldIT methods for management
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A product placement engine and method for automatically identifying products for association with a document, the engine including a parser, an analysis module adapted to determine word scores and to adjust the word scores of the words by predetermined weightings, a keyword constructor module adapted to construct a keyword query search string using words having the highest word scores, a search engine adapted to search a products database having product records to identify products satisfying the keyword query search string and assign product scores, and a post processing module adapted to identify word matches in each of the product records and the document and update the product score.

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