Prioritizing product information
First Claim
1. A computer program product tangibly embodied in an information carrier, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed, prioritize associations of products and business entities in a data collection, the computer program product configured to:
- receive information associating a particular product identified in the data collection with a particular business entity identified in the data collection, wherein the particular business entity is associated in the data collection with multiple data entries that each identify one or more product associations with the particular business entity and each of the multiple data entries has a priority indication associated therewith; and
storing the multiple data entries in the data collection for use in determining, in response to a received request, which of the multiple data entries associated with the particular business entity includes a higher priority indication and using a data entry of the multiple data entries that includes the higher priority indication to determine whether a product identified in the data collection is associated with the particular business entity.
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Abstract
A user of a computer is able to define and manage partner-product ranges in which each partner-product range is associated with products, business partners and a priority indicator. When a particular business partner or a particular partner-product combination is associated with multiple partner-product ranges, the priority indicator of each of the multiple partner-product ranges is used to determine which of the multiple partner-product ranges is to be applied to the business partner or the particular partner-product combination, respectively. In this way, a user may define a partner-product range that applies to one or more partner-product combinations or one or more business partners that otherwise would be covered by another partner-product range.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer program product tangibly embodied in an information carrier, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed, prioritize associations of products and business entities in a data collection, the computer program product configured to:
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receive information associating a particular product identified in the data collection with a particular business entity identified in the data collection, wherein the particular business entity is associated in the data collection with multiple data entries that each identify one or more product associations with the particular business entity and each of the multiple data entries has a priority indication associated therewith; and
storing the multiple data entries in the data collection for use in determining, in response to a received request, which of the multiple data entries associated with the particular business entity includes a higher priority indication and using a data entry of the multiple data entries that includes the higher priority indication to determine whether a product identified in the data collection is associated with the particular business entity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computer-implemented method for prioritizing associations of products and business entities in a data collection, the method comprising:
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receiving information associating a particular product identified in the data collection with a particular business entity identified in the data collection, wherein the particular business entity is associated in the data collection with multiple data entries that each identify one or more products associations with the particular business entity and each of the multiple data entries has a priority indication associated therewith; and
storing the multiple data entries in the data collection for use in determining, in response to a received request, which of the multiple data entries associated with the particular business entity includes a higher priority indication and using a data entry of the multiple data entries that includes the higher priority indication to determine whether a product identified in the data collection is associated with the particular business entity. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system for prioritizing associations of products and business entities in a data collection, the system comprising a processor connected to a storage device and one or more input/output devices, wherein the processor is configured to:
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receive information associating a particular product identified in the data collection with a particular business entity identified in the data collection, wherein the particular business entity is associated in the data collection with multiple data entries that each identify one or more products associations with the particular business entity and each of the multiple data entries has a priority indication associated therewith; and
store the multiple data entries in the data collection for use in determining, in response to a received request, which of the multiple data entries associated with the particular business entity includes a higher priority indication and using a data entry of the multiple data entries that includes the higher priority indication to determine whether a product identified in the data collection is associated with the particular business entity. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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