Mobile product advisor

• US 8,740,060 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2011
• Issued: 06/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Aihara, Toru, Kamijo, Noboru, Schwartz, Robyn R.
• Primary Examiner(s): St Cyr, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/222,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20130048708A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,007 Days
• Field of Search: 248/688, 248/442.2, 248/447, 248/447.1, 248/917, 248/918, 361724-727, 36167901-67961, 235/375, 235/383, 235/385, 235/462.09
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations

Abstract

Mobile product advising includes creating, via a computer processor, vectors for each of a number of subjects corresponding to a product and assigning attributes of the subjects to corresponding fields of the vector. The mobile product advising also includes assigning values in the fields of the vectors reflecting a status of the attributes relative to the subjects. The mobile product advising further includes creating a product label for the product and encoding the vector including the attributes and values on the product label.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

creating, via a computer processor, vectors for each of a plurality of subjects corresponding to a product and assigning attributes of the subjects to corresponding fields of the vectors;

assigning values in the fields of the vectors reflecting a status of the attributes relative to the subjects;

creating a product label for the product;

encoding the vectors including the attributes and values on the product label

comparing scanned data from the product label with a preference vector created for an end user;

determining a compatibility indicator responsive to the comparing; and

presenting a notification indicative of the compatibility indicator to an end user device of the end user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

activating a subset of the vectors on the product label, via the computer processor over a network, based on a satisfied condition; and

de-activating at least a portion of the subset of vectors on the product label, over the network, when the condition is no longer satisfied.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the product is a food item and the subjects comprise food allergies.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the product is a food item and the subjects comprise diet data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the product label is created as one of a:

two-dimensional bar code;

near field communications code;

universal product code; and

radio frequency identifier code.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a user interface to the end user device, the user interface configured to receive user preferences with respect to the subjects and create the preference vector from inputs received from the end user.

7. A system comprising:

a host system computer; and

logic executable by the host system computer, the logic configured to implement a method, the method comprising;

creating vectors for each of a plurality of subjects corresponding to a product and assigning attributes of the subjects to corresponding fields of the vectors;

assigning values in the fields of the vectors reflecting a status of the attributes relative to the subjects;

creating a product label for the product;

encoding the vectors including the attributes and values on the product label;

comparing scanned data from the product label with a preference vector created for an end user;

determining a compatibility indicator responsive to the comparing; and

presenting a notification indicative of the compatibility indicator to an end user device of the end user.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the logic further implements:

activating a subset of the vectors on the product label, via the computer processor over a network, based on a satisfied condition; and

de-activating at least a portion of the subset of vectors on the product label, over the network, when the condition is no longer satisfied.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the product is a food item and the subjects comprise one of:

food allergies; and

diet data.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the product label is created as one of a:

two-dimensional bar code;

near field communications code;

universal product code; and

radio frequency identifier code.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the logic is further configured to implement:

providing a user interface to the end user device, the user interface configured to receive user preferences with respect to the subjects and create the preference vector from inputs received from the end user.

12. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to implement a method, the method comprising:

creating vectors for each of a plurality of subjects corresponding to a product and assigning attributes of the subjects to corresponding fields of the vectors;

assigning values in the fields of the vectors reflecting a status of the attributes relative to the subjects;

creating a product label for the product;

encoding the vectors including the attributes and values on the product label;

comparing scanned data from the product label with a preference vector created for an end user;

determining a compatibility indicator responsive to the comparing; and

presenting a notification indicative of the compatibility indicator to an end user device of the end user.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, further comprising instructions for:

activating a subset of the vectors on the product label, via the computer processor over a network, based on a satisfied condition; and

de-activating at least a portion of the subset of vectors on the product label, over the network, when the condition is no longer satisfied.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the product is a food item and the subjects comprise one of:

food allergies; and

diet data.

15. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the product label is created as a two-dimensional bar code.

16. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the product label is created as a radio frequency identifier code.

17. The computer program product of claim 12, further comprising instructions for providing a user interface to the end user device, the user interface configured to receive user preferences with respect to the subjects and create the preference vector from inputs received from the end user.