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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2013
Zilliant Incorporated, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph C. Nipko, Austin, TX (US);
Peter J. Eppele, Austin, TX (US);
Sabarinath Navaneethakrishnan, Austin, TX (US);
Jing Zan, Austin, TX (US);
Barrett M. Thompson, Fayetteville, GA (US);
Eric B. Hills, Austin, TX (US);
David D. Kurak, Austin, TX (US);
Zilliant Incorporated, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for efficiently identifying the sales opportunities in a business-to-business market environment. It provides a computer-implemented predictive sales intelligence system and method for identifying sales opportunities. The present invention is a computer implemented system and method for efficiently identifying reliable purchase pattern profiles through scientific analysis of customer data. It includes a system and method for calculating a customer's purchase profile, clustering customers based on similarity of their purchase profile, and efficiently providing a reliable set of opportunities including lost sales (retention) and cross-selling (wallet share expansion) opportunities. It uses this reliable estimate of sales opportunities to retain and expand wallet share for customers.