Purchase sequence browser

US7962368B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Fair Isaac Corporation · US

Inventors

• Shailesh Kumar · San Diego, US
• Megan Thorsen · Sunnyvale, US
• Ashutosh Joshi · Sunnyvale, US
• Sergei Tolmanov · Walnut Creek, US
• Helen Geraldine E. Rosario · Ellington, US
• Colin Little · Emeryville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 20, 2006
• Grant date: Jun 14, 2011
• Expiry date: Apr 14, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/04
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention provides a purchase sequence browser (PuSB), i.e. a graphical user interface (GUI) that facilitates insight discovery and exploration of product affinities across time, generated by a purchase sequence analysis of a retailer's transaction data. A purchase sequence browser allows the user to browse the most significant product phrases discovered by an exhaustive search of the product affinities across time; explore the retail grammar to create both forward and backward phrase trees or alternate purchase paths starting from, or ending in, a product; generate consistent purchase sequences given some constraints on the products and their order; and profile the value of a product across time with regard to other products fixed in time.