SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING, TRACKING, AND PROJECTING CHILDREN'S CLOTHING SIZES OVER TIME

• US 20090094138A1
• Filed: 10/02/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Stormy Compean Sweitzer, William John Swanepoel
• Original Assignee: Stormy Compean Sweitzer, William John Swanepoel
• Inventors: Swanepoel, William John, Sweitzer, Stormy Compean
• Application Number:
  US12/244,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20090094138A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

The present invention relates to an automated system and method for determining the best brand and product-specific sizes of garments or footwear for a child based on the child'"'"'s measurements and the measurement parameters associated with a specific brands'"'"' sizing structures. The present invention also allows for projecting changes in the child'"'"'s garment or footwear size by brand and product type over time either by projecting the approximate date on which a child will outgrow their current size or by projecting a future size for some given date in time.

Claims

1. A method for determining children'"'"'s clothing sizes comprising:

storing in a computer brand and size specific measurement data for particular sizes of clothing for at least one brand of clothing;

storing in the computer statistical growth data for children in general;

the computer receiving from a user child specific data including body measurement data for a particular child;

the computer receiving a future date from the user;

the computer calculating the size of the child on the future date based on the child specific data and the statistical growth data;

the computer calculating a size of clothing for a particular brand of clothing which will fit the child on the future date; and

the computer providing the size and brand of clothing to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method comprises:

storing in the computer brand and specific measurement data for particular sizes of clothing for a plurality of brands of clothing; and

the computer calculating the brand and size of clothing which will best fit the child on the future date.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the method comprises:

the computer calculating a size of clothing which will fit the child on the future date such that the size of clothing reflects a predetermined growth allowance such that the clothing will fit the child for a predetermined amount of growth.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the growth allowance is a period of time during which the clothing will fit the child.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the growth allowance is an amount by which a child body measurement may increase.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the user may input a desired growth allowance.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the method comprises:

the computer storing, for particular types of clothing such as shirts, pants, etc., child specific body measurements which a user must enter in order to determine the appropriate size of clothing for a child.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the method further comprises;

the computer storing, for particular types of clothing, child specific body measurements which a user may optionally enter to better determine an appropriate size of clothing for a child.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the method comprises:

a user entering future dates on which they desire clothing to be sent automatically;

the computer calculating the appropriate size of clothing for the child on said future dates; and

the computer automatically triggering the shipment of clothing to the child on the future dates based on the calculated sizes.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the method comprises:

the computer receiving child specific data including two sets of actual body measurement data for a particular child corresponding to two different dates; and

the computer calculating the body measurements of the child on the future date based on the child specific data and the statistical growth data, the calculated size of the child being adjusted based on the two sets of body measurements to more accurately project the body measurements of the child.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the method comprises:

the computer receiving from the user various additional child body measurements other than height and weight;

the computer correlating said other body measurements to the height of the child;

the computer calculating the height of the child at a future date based on the statistical growth data; and

the computer calculating the other body measurements at the future date based on the calculated height at the future date and the correlation between the other body measurements and height received from the user.

12. A method for determining children'"'"'s clothing sizes comprising:

providing a computer, the computer comprising;

brand specific clothing measurement data for particular sizes of clothing for at least one brand of clothing;

statistical growth data for children in general;

the computer receiving child specific data from a customer, said child specific data including the child'"'"'s date of birth, gender, and actual height, and weight;

the computer calculating a size of clothing which will fit the child, the size of clothing being calculated for a specific brand of clothing from the brand and size specific measurement data and from the child height and weight data; and

the computer providing the brand and size of clothing to the customer.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the method comprises:

the computer calculating the size of clothing so as to provide a predetermined growth allowance, said growth allowance providing that the child may grow for a predetermined period of time or increase in measurement such that the calculated size of clothing will still fit the child during said growth.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the customer may provide the growth allowance to the computer.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the method comprises:

the computer receiving a future date from the customer;

the computer calculating, for the future date, the child'"'"'s height and weight from the child specific data and from the statistical height and weight growth data;

the computer calculating, for the future date, a brand specific size of clothing which will fit the child from the brand and size specific measurement data and from the child height and weight data.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the computer comprises brand and size specific clothing measurement data for particular sizes of clothing for a plurality of brands of clothing, and wherein the method comprises the computer calculating a size of clothing which will best fit the child, the size of clothing being calculated for a specific brand of clothing from the brand and size specific measurement data and from the child height and weight data.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the child specific data further includes at least one child body measurement other than height and weight.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the computer comprises, for particular types of clothing, brand specific measurement data particular to that type of clothing and wherein the at least one child body measurement other than height and weight corresponds to the measurement data particular to a type of clothing for which the customer is searching.

19. A method for determining children'"'"'s clothing sizes comprising:

providing a computer comprising;

brand specific measurement data for particular sizes of clothing for at least one brand of clothing;

statistical growth data for children in general;

the computer receiving from a customer child specific data including date of birth, gender, and actual height, and weight; and

the computer calculating the projected growth of the child based on the statistical growth data and the child specific data; and

the computer delivering to the customer brand specific clothing size information based on the child specific projected growth.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the method further comprises:

the computer calculating, for the specific child, a date upon which the child is projected to grow out of a brand specific size of clothing.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the method further comprises:

the computer calculating, for the specific child, a date upon which the child is projected to grow in to a brand specific size of clothing.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the method further comprises:

the computer calculating, for the specific child, dates when specific sizes of clothing will fit the child based on the calculated growth of the child.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein the computer comprises, for particular types of clothing, brand specific measurement data particular to that type of clothing and wherein the at least one child body measurement includes a measurement other than height and weight which corresponds to the measurement data particular to a type of clothing for which the customer is searching.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein the child specific data further includes at least one child body measurement other than height and weight, and wherein the method further comprises:

the computer correlating the at least one body measurement other than height and weight to the height of the child;

the computer calculating the projected height of the child at a future date based on the child specific data;

the computer calculating the projected at least one body measurement other than height and weight at the future date based on the projected height at the future date and the correlation between the at least one body measurement other than height and weight and the height; and

the computer delivering to the customer brand specific clothing size information based on the child specific projected growth including the projected at least one measurement other than height and weight.

25. The method of claim 19, wherein the method further comprises:

the computer automatically triggering shipment of clothing to the child at least one future date based on at least one of the group consisting of;

the child growing out of current clothing and the child growing into a predetermined clothing size.