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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Victor Rafael Escobar Olmos, Vilafranca del Penedes, ES;
Jakob C. Lang, Boeblingen, DE;
Tomas Libal, Kralove, CZ;
Angel Nunez Mencias, Boeblingen, DE;
Fabian Romanowski, Karlsruhe, DE;
Sven Sterbling, Boeblingen, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Approving a group purchase request for a group of articles. A sub-group of articles is selected, wherein a unique article approval index is assigned to each of the articles and a highest article approval index is determined among the unique article approval indexes of the articles of the group, wherein the article of the group is selected into the sub-group if the article of the group complies with at least one of following article selection criteria: the unique article approval index of the article of the group is above a predetermined approval index threshold and the unique approval index of the article of the group is equal to the highest article approval index; approving the group purchase request for the group if the group purchase request for the sub-group is approved; and rejecting the group purchase request for the group if the group purchase request for the sub-group is rejected.