US 7,308,421 B2
System and method for grouping products in a catalogGeneral
US 7,308,421 B2
System and method for grouping products in a catalog
Tech Center:
3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security and License and Review
Examiner:
F. Zeender
Art Unit:
3627 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing
Agent:
Inventors:
Sri Raghupathy; Shankar Sundaram; Narayanan Vijaykumar
Assignee:
Priority:
04/12/02
Filed:
04/12/02
Granted:
12/11/07
Expiration:
04/21/24
Abstract
An apparatus and method for preparing a price quote for a product. The product is selected from among a plurality of products. A determination is made as to whether the product is a member of a particular product collection. This determination includes evaluating a dynamic selection rule set associated with the particular product collection. When the product is determined to be a member of the particular product collection, the method includes the additional steps of (i) identifying one or more price rules associated with the particular product collection and (ii) applying these price rules to the product in order to determine the price quote for the product.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G06G06Q30/0283G06Q