Intelligent shopping search system
First Claim
1. A method of an electronic shopping search that helps a customer search and shop items which match best for him/her using a programmed computer, cell phone, CD-ROM, television, Internet or any other electronic medium, comprising:
- receiving personal information from a customer;
receiving item type to shop from the customer;
using the expert and fashion knowledge about what will be the best match for the customer along with his preferences to find the items in the descending order of the personal scores for the customer; and
outputting plurality of items from the database of items such that the items with the higher personal scores are retrieved and displayed before the items with the lower personal scores.
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Abstract
This invention provides a method of building an intelligent electronic shopping search system that helps a customer search and shop items which have the best match for him/her using a programmed computer, CD-ROM, television, Internet or other electronic medium such as video. The method comprises receiving personal information including body characteristics, personal preferences and style from the customer; making the customer selects the item he wants to shop or search; using expert and fashion knowledge rules which contain information of what works best for people along with his personal preferences to find the items in the descending order of their personal scores for the customer; and presenting the shopping search items to the customer in the descending order of their personal scores, such that the items with higher personal score come before the items with lower scores.
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21 Claims
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1. A method of an electronic shopping search that helps a customer search and shop items which match best for him/her using a programmed computer, cell phone, CD-ROM, television, Internet or any other electronic medium, comprising:
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receiving personal information from a customer; receiving item type to shop from the customer; using the expert and fashion knowledge about what will be the best match for the customer along with his preferences to find the items in the descending order of the personal scores for the customer; and outputting plurality of items from the database of items such that the items with the higher personal scores are retrieved and displayed before the items with the lower personal scores. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of continuously learning customer preferences and using them to improve the quality of search results of a shopping search system that helps customers search and shop items over the Internet using a programmed computer, CD-ROM, television, Internet or other electronic medium such as video, comprising:
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allowing user to select likeness or dislike-ness of an item from search results displayed by the shopping search system; displaying user various attributes of a liked item and allowing him to select the attributes that he liked about the item, and storing these preferences in the profile for the user as liked attributes of the item; displaying user various attributes of a disliked item and allowing him to select the attributes that he disliked about the item, and storing these preferences in the profile for the user as the disliked attributes of the item; including the liked attributes in the future searches for similar items such that the items which have liked attributes show up in the top results; including the disliked attributes in the search for similar items such that the items which have disliked attributes show up last.
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18. A method of Internet shopping system that helps a customer shop items which are best match for him/her using a programmed computer, cell phone, CD-ROM, television, Internet or any other electronic medium, comprising:
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receiving personal information from a customer; receiving item type to shop from the customer; using the expert and fashion knowledge about what will be the best match for the customer along with his preferences to find the items in the descending order of the personal scores for the customer; outputting plurality of items from the database of items such that the items with the higher personal scores are retrieved and displayed before the items with the lower personal scores; and receiving item selection and order processing information from the customer; processing the order information for the selected item
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19. A method of an electronic shopping search that helps a customer search and shop items which match best for his friend using a programmed computer, cell phone, CD-ROM, television, Internet or any other electronic medium, comprising:
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receiving personal information from a customer about his friend; receiving item type to shop from the customer; using the expert and fashion knowledge about what will be the best match for the friend along with his preferences to find the items in the descending order of the personal scores for the customer; and outputting plurality of items from the database of items such that the items with the higher personal scores are retrieved and displayed before the items with the lower personal scores. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
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