Fair Isaac Corporation

Colin Little

Ashutosh Joshi

Sergei Tolmanov

Shailesh Kumar

Megan Thorsen

Helen Geraldine E Rosario

Stuart L Crawford

Victor Miagkikh

A product space browser (PSB), which comprises a graphical user interface (GUI) that facilitates insight discovery through exploration and analysis of product space graphs generated by applying a product affinity engine to retailer's transaction data in a market basket context, is disclosed.

Product space browser

The invention provides a purchase sequence browser (PuSB), i.e. a graphical user interface (GUI) that facilitates insight discovery and exploration of product affinities across time, generated by a purchase sequence analysis of a retailer's transaction data. A purchase sequence browser allows the user to browse the most significant product phrases discovered by an exhaustive search of the product affinities across time; explore the retail grammar to create both forward and backward phrase trees or alternate purchase paths starting from, or ending in, a product; generate consistent purchase sequences given some constraints on the products and their order; and profile the value of a product across time with regard to other products fixed in time.

Purchase sequence browser

Growing community of inventors

Emeryville, CA, United States of America

Colin Little