US 2009/0276291 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORKING SHOPS ONLINE AND OFFLINE

Abstract

Garments are presented to a consumer using a computer by reading a database of garments, wherein the database of garments includes parameters for at least some of the garments represented by records in the database of garments, the parameters including at least a garment type, reading data representing a plurality of garment types, the data including, for each type of the plurality of garment types, obtaining consumer measurements from the consumer or a source derived from the consumer, obtaining garment measurements for garments in the database of garments, comparing customer measurements to garment measurements, scoring garments from the database of garments based on garment measurements and customer measurements, and presenting the consumer or consumer representative with a computer generated filtered listed of garments from the database of garments ordered, at least approximately, according to garment scores, based on context.

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Dependent claims

An online shopping system that provides for network connections between a server that has access to a database of products being offered for sale and client systems used by consumers or consumer representatives to at least view information about products being offered for sale and order selections among those products, wherein the information about the products being offered for sale includes at least one fit, shape, preference or style parameter, the online shopping system comprising:

program code for obtaining consumer data including one or more of consumer body shape, consumer proportion, consumer preferences;
program code for filtering the collection of products according to one or more of consumer preference, consumer size, consumer measurements, consumer shape and parameters of the products in the collection to form a personalized selection of products;
program code for performing one or more of filtering and ranking the products in the personalized selection according to context information, wherein context information relates to how the client system is accessing the server;
and
program code for generating a presentation of at least a portion of the personalized selection, to provide the consumer or consumer representative with a personalized shopping experience that can vary by context.

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System and method for networking shops online and offline

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System and method for networking shops online and offline

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