Management of offer records for a mobile device
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorCharles W. Calio
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and system for managing mobile offer records. The system may receive a query from a user including a shopping list comprising a plurality of items and a maximum price for a set of item descriptions of the shopping list. The system may identify a location of a mobile device. The system may obtain a plurality of offer records based on the location of the mobile device, the shopping list, and the maximum price. The system may normalize the plurality of offer records based on a value of the offer records. The system may rank the plurality of offer records based on the normalization.
Claims8
A method for data management between a mobile device and another device, the method comprising:
- receiving a query from a user, wherein the query comprises data associated with a shopping list comprising a plurality of item descriptions and data associated with a maximum price for a set of items associated with the plurality of item descriptions;
- identifying a location of the mobile device associated with the user;
- obtaining a plurality of offer records based on the location of the mobile device, the shopping list, and the maximum price, wherein the plurality of offer records include data defining at least one of a price for the set of items or a reduction in price for the set of items;
- normalizing an offer record in the plurality of offer records, the normalizing comprising standardizing a value of the offer record and an item description;
- ranking the normalized one or more offer records based on the value of the offer record corresponding to the item description;
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- transmitting data associated with the plurality of offer records and the ranking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.