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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2017
Point Inside, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Jonathan Alan Croy, Seattlew, WA (US);
Joshua Logan Marti, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michael Moricz, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mohandas Kannan, Bothell, WA (US);
Point Inside, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A location assignment system and method assigns and stores a location to each item in a retail system product line, across one or more store venues, that otherwise do not include location information, e.g., is not included in planogram data. Specific rules and algorithms assign a location for each product by inferring a location of each product lacking location information from other items that do have a location, and assigning the location of a most popularly sold item in a weighted grouping of given attributes of the item. Thus, given a complete catalog of every product sold in a given retail store system (which often runs in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual products—up to 40% of more of which have no location information within a planogram), the location assignment system assigns a location to every product sold.