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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2000
Jerome M. Kurtzberg, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Menachem Levanoni, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Jerome M. Kurtzberg, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Menachem Levanoni, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer method for enhancing shelf-space management. The method includes the steps of providing a shelf-space-requirements database comprising a compendium of individual shelf-space-requirements history; providing a shelf-space-availability database comprising a compendium of at least one of shelf-space management solutions, shelf-space information, and shelf-space diagnostics; and, employing a data mining technique for interrogating the shelf-space-requirements and shelf-space-availability databases for generating an output data stream, the output data stream correlating shelf-space-requirements problem with shelf-space-availability solution.