US 2020/0005381 A1 · METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTION, FILTERING OR PRESENTATION OF AVAILABLE SALES OUTLETS

Abstract

Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for the filtering, selection and presentation of vendors accounting for both user characteristics and vendor characteristics, such that the systems and methods may be used by both customer and vendor alike to better match customer needs with the resource-constrained vendors with whom a successful sale has a higher probability of occurring. Embodiments may include filtering, selecting and/or presenting vendors to a user sorted by the probability that the particular vendor will possess the characteristics that appeal to a particular customer and therefore result in a large probability of sale and suppress presentation of those vendors that are unlikely to be selected by the customer since their characteristics are less consistent with those needed by the customer and, therefore, are unlikely to result in a sale.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

determining, by a computer for each of a plurality of sales outlets, a probability of closing a sale (Pc), wherein Pc is a function of Ps and Pb, wherein Ps represents a probability of a specific sales outlet selling a product to a user interested in purchasing the product given that the sales outlet is presented to the user and wherein Pb represents a probability of the user buying the product from the sales outlet given a historical preference of the user;
selecting, by the computer based at least in part on the probability of closing (Pc), a list of sales outlets from the plurality of sales outlets;
and
presenting, by the computer to an interested consumer via a Web application, the list of sales outlets on a user device associated with the interested consumer.

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A system, comprising:

a processor;
a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
and
stored instructions translatable by the processor for:
determining, for each of a plurality of sales outlets, a probability of closing a sale (Pc), wherein Pc is a function of Ps and Pb, wherein Ps represents a probability of a specific sales outlet selling a product to a user interested in purchasing the product given that the sales outlet is presented to the user and wherein Pb represents a probability of the user buying the product from the sales outlet given a historical preference of the user;
selecting, based at least in part on the probability of closing (Pc), a list of sales outlets from the plurality of sales outlets;
and
presenting, to an interested consumer via a Web application, the list of sales outlets on a user device associated with the interested consumer.

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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions translatable by a processor to perform:

determining, for each of a plurality of sales outlets, a probability of closing a sale (Pc), wherein Pc is a function of Ps and Pb, wherein Ps represents a probability of a specific sales outlet selling a product to a user interested in purchasing the product given that the sales outlet is presented to the user and wherein Pb represents a probability of the user buying the product from the sales outlet given a historical preference of the user;
selecting, based at least in part on the probability of closing (Pc), a list of sales outlets from the plurality of sales outlets;
receiving, via a Web application, a request from an interested consumer interested in purchasing the product;
and
in response to the request from the interested consumer, presenting, to the interested consumer through the Web application, the list of sales outlets on a user device associated with the interested consumer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and system for selection, filtering or presentation of available sales outlets

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