Organization for promotion management

• US 20080033808A1
• Filed: 07/24/2006
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Martin, Patrick, Lee, Yuchun, Cheung, David F., Kennedy, Ruby, Black, Andre B.
• Granted Patent: US 8,315,904 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

A computer implemented method for producing a promotion list for a promotion management campaign is described. The method includes assigning one or more promotion instances to the promotions list, and storing the promotion list in an electronic medium.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for producing a promotion list for a promotion management campaign, the method comprising:

assigning one or more promotion instances to the promotions list; and

storing the promotion list in an electronic medium.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein assigning the one or more promotions to the promotions list comprises:

querying promotion instances to find one or more matching promotion instances having matching attributes to one or more of the promotion attributes; and

at runtime, adding the matching promotion instances to the promotions list.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein assigning the one or more promotions to the promotions list comprises:

displaying the one or more promotion instances stored in the electronic medium in a searchable and browsable view; and

adding from the searchable and browsable view, one or more promotion instances to the promotions list.

4. The method of claim 2 further comprises:

limiting the matching promotion instances to an N number of promotions, wherein N is an integer.

5. The method of claim 2 further comprises:

sorting the matching promotion instances in one of an ascending or descending order based on one or more promotion attributes.

6. The method of claim 2 further comprises:

filtering the matching promotion instances to the matching promotion instances located in one or more folders of the electronic medium.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprises:

assigning to the promotion list a security policy governing which users are allowed to interact with the promotion list.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the promotion list attributes comprise:

a promotion list name;

an icon; and

a promotion list description.

9. The method of claim 2 wherein the query comprises clauses including one or more of including a function, a variable, a promotion attribute connected by Boolean operators to match to one or more attributes of one or more promotions.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more promotions comprise a first promotion having at least one or more different promotion attributes or different promotion attribute values than a second promotion.

17. The computer program product of claim 1 further comprises instructions for causing a computer to:

assign to the promotion list a security policy governing which users are allowed to interact with the promotion list.

11. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium for producing a producing a promotion list for a promotion management campaign, comprises instructions for causing a computer to:

assign one or more promotion instances to the promotions list; and

store the promotion list in an electronic medium.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein instructions that assign the one or more promotions to the promotions list further comprise instructions for causing a computer to:

query promotion instances to find one or more matching promotion instances having matching attributes to one or more of the promotion attributes; and

at runtime, add the matching promotion instances to the promotions list.

13. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein instructions that assign the one or more promotions to the promotions list further comprise instructions for causing a computer to:

display the one or more promotion instances stored in the electronic medium in a searchable and browsable view; and

add from the searchable and browsable view, one or more promotion instances to the promotions list.

14. The computer program product of claim 12 further comprises instructions for causing a computer to:

limit the matching promotion instances to an N number of promotions, wherein N is an integer.

15. The computer program product of claim 12 further comprises instructions for causing a computer to:

sort the matching promotion instances in one of an ascending or descending order based on one or more promotion attributes.

16. The computer program product of claim 12 further comprises instructions for causing a computer to:

filter the matching promotion instances to the matching promotion instances located in one or more folders of the electronic medium.

18. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the promotion list attributes comprise:

a promotion list name;

an icon; and

a promotion list description.

19. The computer program product of claim 12 wherein the query comprises clauses including one or more of including a function, a variable, a promotion attribute connected by Boolean operators to match to one or more attributes of one or more promotions.

20. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the one or more promotions comprise a first promotion having at least one or more different promotion attributes or different promotion attribute values than a second promotion.

21. An apparatus comprises:

a processor;

memory executing a computer program product for producing a producing a promotion list for a promotion management campaign, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing the processor to;

assign one or more promotion instances to the promotions list; and

store the promotion list in an electronic medium.