Sku-driven apparel size determination for cardholders
AssigneeMastercard International Incorporated
InventorJustin Xavier Howe
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Abstract
Repositories of apparel purchase data combined with payment card data can be used to determine accurate cardholder apparel sizes by examining their historical clothing purchases. Using these profiles to identify cardholders with similar figures, and their purchases to extrapolate what sizes to purchase in as yet unpurchased items. The present method can be implemented on an e-commerce platform or in brick & mortar locations, for example as a smartphone app with barcode scanner. Shopping becomes more efficient for cardholders, the retailer sees increased throughput, and returns for size are reduced. No effort by customer is needed.
Claims21
A method of providing a sizing recommendation for a first cardholder seeing to purchase a first garment, the method comprising:
- determining, from a transaction record of clothing purchases made using a first transaction card corresponding to the first cardholder, a sizing profile for the first cardholder of the first transaction card, wherein the sizing profile includes a subset of the transaction record that corresponds to a most likely clothing size for the first cardholder;
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- making a sizing recommendation related to the first garment for the first cardholder by reference to a relationship between the sizing profile of the first cardholder and transaction records within other sizing profiles of other cardholders, which other sizing profiles include items appearing among the transaction records within the sizing profile of the first cardholder.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, having thereon a program of instruction which, when executed by processor, cause the processor to:
- determine, from a transaction record of clothing purchases made using a first transaction card corresponding to the first cardholder, a sizing profile for the first cardholder of the first transaction card, wherein the sizing profile includes a subset of the transaction record that corresponds to a most likely clothing size for the first cardholder;
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- make a sizing recommendation related to the first garment for the first cardholder by reference to a relationship between the sizing profile of the first cardholder and transaction records within other sizing profiles of other cardholders, which other sizing profiles include items appearing among the transaction records within the sizing profile of the first cardholder.
A system for monitoring cashless transaction data, the system comprising:
- a computer including a processing device and a non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium, having thereon a program of instruction which, when executed by processor, cause the processor to:
- determine, from a transaction record of clothing purchases made using a first transaction card corresponding to the first cardholder, a sizing profile for the first cardholder of the first transaction card, wherein the sizing profile includes a subset of the transaction record that corresponds to a most likely clothing size for the first cardholder;
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- make a sizing recommendation related to the first garment for the first cardholder by reference to a relationship between the sizing profile of the first cardholder and transaction records within other sizing profiles of other cardholders, which other sizing profiles include items appearing among the transaction records within the sizing profile of the first cardholder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.