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Product selection expert system

  • US 7,007,245 B2
  • Filed: 03/12/2004
  • Issued: 02/28/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for product selection, the system comprising:

  • a. a CPU;

    b. a memory operatively connected to the CPU, the memory containing a program adapted to be executed by the CPU and the CPU and memory cooperatively adapted for presenting a user interface and expert interface to an expert system for product selection;

    c. an expert-interface code segment embodied on a computer-readable medium configured and adapted for;

    i. creating and modifying via a graphical user interface a graphically-displayed tree structure representing a plurality of product applications;

    ii. associating and modifying via a graphical user interface one or more use condition with each node of the tree structure; and

    iii. associating and modifying via a graphical user interface one or more suitability ratings for a plurality of applications;

    iv. creating and modifying via a graphical user interface a list of productsv. associating and modifying via a graphical user interface one or more product with each leaf node of the tree structure;

    vi. associating via a graphical user interface use condition choices with each productvii. associating via a graphical user interface suitability ratings for each productd. a user-interface code segment embodied on a computer-readable medium configured and adapted fori. selecting via a graphical-use interface a path in the tree structure, and for displaying on the same window of the graphical-use interface;

    1. the products associated with the leaf node of the selected path;

    2. the use conditions associated with each node of the selected path; and

    3. the product usability suitability indicators associated with each node of the selected path;

    ii. selecting via the same window of the graphical-use interface one or more of the use conditions associated with the nodes of the selected path and for entering the user-defined relative importance of the product usability suitability indicators for the intended application of the products associated with the leaf nodes of the selected path;

    iii. comparing the selected use conditions with the displayed products, wherein products not having such selected use conditions as attributes are filtered out of the displayed list of products;

    iv. comparing the entered relative importance of the product usability suitability indicators with the product usability suitability indicators associated with the displayed products, associating a score with each displayed product indicating the correlation of the comparison, and displaying the score with the product; and

    v. printing the resulting product list, corresponding suitability scores, selected tree path, selected use conditions, and entered relative importance of product usability suitability indicators.

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