Product classification in procurement systems

US8768930B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Oracle International Corporation · US

Inventors

• Chandra Yeleshwarapu · Sugar Land, US
• Keshava Prasad Rangarajan · Rua Engenheiro Marcondes Ferraz, US
• Sudeep Agarwal · San Francisco, US
• Athanasios Bismpigiannis · Sunnyvale, US
• Nagaraj Srinivasan · Union City, US
• Ashish Pathak · Pune, IN
• Munagala Kodanda Ram · Hyderabad, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 26, 2010
• Grant date: Jul 1, 2014
• Expiry date: Jul 15, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0641
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Various embodiments provide solutions to assist in the classification of products in a procurement system. The tools provided by various embodiments include, without limitation, methods, systems, and/or software products. Merely by way of example, a method might comprise one or more procedures, any or all of which are executed by a computer system. Correspondingly, an embodiment might provide a computer system configured with instructions to perform one or more procedures in accordance with methods provided by various other embodiments. Similarly, a computer program might comprise a set of instructions that are executable by a computer system (and/or a processor therein) to perform such operations. In many cases, such software programs are encoded on physical and/or tangible computer readable media (such as, to name but a few examples, optical media, magnetic media, and/or the like).