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Services for spontaneous collaboration

  • US 8,812,405 B2
  • Filed: 08/19/2009
  • Issued: 08/19/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Ai apparatus for characterization of areas of consultant expertise, saidapparatus comprising:

  • A) a processor device executing machine-executable instructions;

    B) a program storage device operably coupled with the processor device and comprising the machine-executable instructions for;

    automatically determining shopping goals of a shopper, without said shopper having to explicitly supply the shopping goals as input, by;

    analyzing contents of the shopper'"'"'s shopping cart; and

    performing a location operation to determine the shopper'"'"'s location in the store;

    wherein said shopping goals comprise a first list of candidate products that the shopper desires to acquire in a store;

    listing the contents of the shopper'"'"'s shopping cart in a second list;

    for each candidate product in the first list of candidate products, automatically;

    querying a database comprising a third list of potential shopping collaborators correlated to the candidate product for which the potential shopping collaborators have experience and knowledge;

    retrieving from the database the third list of the potential shopping collaborators with experience and knowledge of the candidate product;

    determining which of the potential shopping collaborators are currently online, therefore available; and

    ranking the available shopping collaborators by assigning a high ranking to those collaborators with attributes of;

    close physical proximity between the shopper and the collaborators;

    a positive rating of the shopper'"'"'s past experience with the collaborators as stored in the database;

    experience in multiple product sets associated with the candidate product;

    recent purchase of the candidate product; and

    frequent purchases of the candidate product;

    merging the third lists of ranked, available shopping collaborators for each candidate product into a final list to eliminate duplicates of shopping collaborators relevant to more than one candidate product;

    and transmitting to a user interface associated with the shopper the final list of ranked available shopping collaborators; and

    C) the user interface for;

    presenting the final list of ranked available shopping collaborators to the shopper;

    and receiving a rating of the shopper'"'"'s interaction with the shopping collaborators.

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