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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2008
Pawan R. Chowdhary, Montrose, NY (US);
Thomas Robert Ervolina, Poughquag, NY (US);
Markus Ettl, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Young Min Lee, Old Westbury, NY (US);
Daniel John Peters, Poughquag, NY (US);
Anshul Sheopuri, Hartsdale, NY (US);
Karthik Sourirajan, White Plains, NY (US);
Pawan R. Chowdhary, Montrose, NY (US);
Thomas Robert Ervolina, Poughquag, NY (US);
Markus Ettl, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Young Min Lee, Old Westbury, NY (US);
Daniel John Peters, Poughquag, NY (US);
Anshul Sheopuri, Hartsdale, NY (US);
Karthik Sourirajan, White Plains, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method evaluate product substitutions along multiple criteria in response to a sales opportunity, for instance, providing sales recommendations of configurable products in response to a customer request based on propensity functions. A customer propensity is determined to estimate attractiveness of a substitute product to a customer based on one or more attributes. A seller propensity is determined to estimate attractiveness to a seller of selling the substitute product based on one or more attributes. The customer propensity and the seller propensity are combined to find a plurality of substitute products.