SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INTERFACING SOFTWARE ENGINES

• US 20100174585A1
• Filed: 01/07/2010
• Published: 07/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Four Charm Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: KSMI Decisions, LLC
• Inventors: Kellogg, Rawdon, Mikell, Don, Buehrle, Jeffrey, Sollie, Sharon, Sollie, Gregory, Bathurst, James
• Granted Patent: US 8,572,015 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0627 using item specifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0629 for generating comparisons
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for interfacing a decision engine and a marketing engine in order to provide vendor-related data in response to decision-related data is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the system and method may include providing a decision engine on a user-accessible network; interfacing a marketing engine with the decision engine on the network; receiving a plurality of user inputs with the decision engine; processing decision-related data with the decision engine in accordance with the plurality of user inputs; sharing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; processing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; and transmitting vendor-related data via the network.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of providing vendor-related data in response to decision-related data, comprising:

providing a decision engine on a user-accessible network;

interfacing a marketing engine with the decision engine on the network;

receiving a plurality of user inputs with the decision engine;

storing the plurality of user inputs;

processing decision-related data with the decision engine in accordance with the plurality of user inputs;

sharing the decision-related data with the marketing engine;

processing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; and

transmitting vendor-related data via the network.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising forming unique data sets from the stored plurality of user inputs in the database and the decision-related data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the unique data sets include one or more weighted factors related to the decision-related data.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the unique data sets are unique for each decision-related data for each user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of user inputs are stored in a database.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising comparing the stored plurality of user inputs.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising determining demographic data based upon the comparison of the plurality of stored user inputs.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the vendor-related data transmitted via the network is influenced by one or more weighted factors of a unique user input in the plurality of user inputs.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising accessing the user-accessible network on a mobile device.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising transmitting physical product data to the decision engine from the mobile device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the physical product data is one of a photographic data, serial number data and barcode data.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the vendor-related data on a mobile device.

13. A system for providing vendor-related data in response to decision-related data, comprising:

one or more servers on a network;

a decision engine provided on the one or more servers, the decision engine connected to one or more storage devices for storing, at least in part, decision-related data;

a marketing engine provided on the one or more servers, the marketing engine connected to the one or more storage devices for storing, at least in part, vendor-related data;

an interfacing application that ties the marketing engine to the decision engine, the interfacing application on the one or more servers and capable of facilitating data sharing between the decision engine and the marketing engine; and

wherein the decision engine is capable of serving a plurality of client computing devices on a user-accessible portion of the network.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the decision-related data is a plurality of unique data sets.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the unique data sets comprise weighted decision factors for each of a plurality of decisions of users.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of unique data sets are compared to determine demographics of users providing the decision-related data.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of unique data sets are default data sets.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the default data sets are formed using predetermined factors.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of client computing devices are mobile computing devices.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein the decision-related data is a plurality of unique data sets and physical product information.