System, method and computer program product for interfacing software engines

• US 8,572,015 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2010
• Issued: 10/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Four Charm Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: dSide Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Kellogg, Rawdon, Mikell, Don, Sollie, Gregory
• Primary Examiner(s): Chaki, Kakali
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bharadwaj, Kalpana
• Application Number:
  US12/683,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20100174585A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,391 Days
• Field of Search: 706/45
• US Class Current: 706/45
• 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, comprising:

receiving processed decision-related data and decision options, the decision-related data being processed by a decision engine, using a plurality of user inputs, to produce the decision options;

sharing the processed decision-related data and the decision options with a marketing engine;

receiving the vendor-related data from a marketing engine, the vendor-related data being generated by the marketing engine in response to receiving the processed decision-related data and the decision options; and

transmitting the vendor-related data via a network to a computing device being served by the decision engine.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising forming unique data sets from a plurality of user inputs stored in a 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.

6. The method of claim 2, 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 stored plurality of 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 a user-accessible network on a mobile device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of user inputs includes physical product data, the physical product data being transmitted to the decision engine from the mobile device, the decision engine processing and scoring the physical product data based on fingerprint data associated with the user, the fingerprint data being saved user data regarding a purchasing decision associated with the user.

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.

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

13. A system for providing vendor-related data, comprising:

one or more servers on a network;

an interfacing application that ties a marketing engine to a decision engine, the interfacing application being a non-transitory computer program product stored on a computer storage medium and when executed by a processor on the one or more servers causes the processor to facilitate data sharing between the decision engine and the marketing engine;

wherein the interfacing application is configured to;

receive processed decision-related data and decision options from the decision engine, the decision-related data being processed by the decision engine using a plurality of user inputs to produce the decision options;

share the processed decision-related data and the decision options with the marketing engine;

receive vendor-related data from the marketing engine, the vendor-related data being generated by the marketing engine in response to receiving the processed decision-related data and the decision options and

transmit the vendor-related data to a computing device being served by the decision engine.

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 client computing device is a mobile computing device.

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