MULTI-VARIABLE PRODUCT RANK

• US 20120221442A1
• Filed: 05/11/2012
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: OLEJNICZAK, NICHOLAS JON, MOINUDDIN, MOHAMMED, PUETZ, JOSHUA JOHN, BURKE, KEITH MCCLELLAND
• Application Number:
  US13/469,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20120221442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0246 Traffic
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for ranking products using multiple data sources are provided. A computerized ranking system includes a ranking engine, loaders, and a presentation component. The ranking engine calculates a score for each product based on multiple counts logged by data sources. Loaders communicatively connected to the ranking engine provide the counts to the data sources. The presentation component generates a ranked product list for display on client devices in response to requests for a list of popular products.

Claims

1. One or more computer-readable media storing computer-usable instructions that cause one or more processors to perform a method that displays products, the method comprising:

obtaining a multivariable score for a product'"'"'s relative popularity within a collection of products;

generating a graphical user interface to display the product and the multivariable score; and

updating the graphical user interface to show changes to the multivariable score of the product on a scale relative to a life of the product.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface illustrates changes in the multivariable score over a specified period time.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein products are classified as climbers or decliners based on the magnitude and direction of the change associated with the product'"'"'s multivariable score.

4. A computer-implemented method to display popular products, the method comprising:

obtaining a multivariable score for a product'"'"'s relative popularity within a collection of products;

generating a graphical user interface to display the product and the multivariable score; and

updating the graphical user interface to show changes to the multivariable score of the product on a scale relative to a life of the product.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the graphical user interface illustrates changes in the multivariable score over a specified period time.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein products are classified as climbers or decliners based on the magnitude and direction of the change associated with the product'"'"'s multivariable score.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the graphical user interface includes a comparison chart that provides a visual graph of the differences between multivariable scores for a number of products over a number of time periods.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the number of products is four.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the chart includes trend lines that illustrate the variability of each product'"'"'s multivariable score over the number of time periods.

10. A computerized system that generates a user interface for popular products, the computerized system having a processor that executes the following:

a user interface component that receives multivariable scores for products and formats the multivariable scores in an ordered list;

wherein the format is one of HTML, XML, or RSS; and

a presentation component receives the formatted lists, wherein the HTML format of the ordered list is received in response to a request for the current list of popular items, the XML format of the list is received to periodically update a number or products in a dynamic section of web site that is dedicated to showing the number products having the largest scores, and the RSS format of the list is received to periodically update a feed that is accessed to determine, among other things, the popular products in a product database without requiring repeated requests for the list.

11. The computerized system of claim 10, wherein the score is based on normalized counts logged by the plurality of data sources.

12. The computerized system of claim 11, wherein the counts include number of page views, number of clicks, amount of revenue, number of entries in a search log.

13. The computerized system of claim 11, wherein the counts include offline store transaction data.

14. The computerized system of claim 11, wherein the counts include number of sales generates, number of seconds a user dwells on a product displayed on the computer.

15. The computerized system of claim 10, wherein the ordered list is organized based on decreasing product scores.

16. The computerized system of claim 10, wherein the user interface illustrates changes in the products'"'"' multivariable scores over a specified period time.

17. The computerized system of claim 16, wherein products are classified as climbers or decliners based on the magnitude and direction of the change associated with the products'"'"' multivariable scores.

18. The computerized system of claim 16, wherein the user interface includes a comparison chart that provides a visual graph of the differences between multivariable scores for a number of products over a number of time periods.

19. The computerized system of claim 18, wherein the number of products is four.

20. The computerized system of claim 18, wherein the chart includes trend lines that illustrate the variability of each product'"'"'s multivariable score over the number of time periods.