US 2018/0005309 A1 · LOCATION ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

Abstract

A location assignment system and method assigns and stores a location to each item in a retail system product line, across one or more store venues, that otherwise do not include location information, e.g., is not included in planogram data. Specific rules and algorithms assign a location for each product by inferring a location of each product lacking location information from other items that do have a location, and assigning the location of a most popularly sold item in a weighted grouping of given attributes of the item. Thus, given a complete catalog of every product sold in a given retail store system (which often runs in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual products—up to 40% of more of which have no location information within a planogram), the location assignment system assigns a location to every product sold.

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Dependent claims

A method of building a product location assignment database for use by a location assignment system, the method comprising:

associating a physical location to fixtures in at least one venue;
receiving as input a unique identifier associated with each of a plurality of items in a catalog;
spatially matching a sub-plurality of the plurality of items in the catalog to a physical location in the at least one venue, forming spatially matched items;
storing the spatially matched items in a product location assignment database;
assigning, for each non-spatially matched item from among the plurality of items in the catalog, a physical location in the at least one venue based on a most popular purchased item in a given group of the spatially matched items, and
storing, in the product location assignment database, the non-spatially matched items as group matched items together with an assigned location;
wherein the given group of the spatially matched items are grouped based on a commonality of at least one product attribute associated with each of the spatially matched items.

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A method of building a product location assignment database using RFID tag detection, for use by a location assignment system, the method comprising:

associating a physical location to fixtures in at least one venue;
receiving as input a unique identifier associated with each of a plurality of items in a catalog;
spatially matching, by a location assignment system operating on a processor, a sub-plurality of the plurality of items in the catalog to a physical location in the at least one venue, based at least in part on a detection of an RFID tag attached to the respective spatially matched items, to generate spatially matched RFID items;
storing the spatially matched RFID items in a product location assignment database;
assigning, for each non-spatially matched item in the catalog, a physical location in the at least one venue based on a most popular purchased item in a given group of the spatially matched RFID items, and
storing, in the product location assignment database, the non-spatially matched items as group matched items with an assigned location;
wherein the given group of the spatially matched RFID items are grouped based on a commonality of at least one product attribute associated with each of the spatially matched items.

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