Automatically tailored user experience for product configuration
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsIrfan Gilani, Harikrishnan Nair Gopalakrishnan
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AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsIrfan Gilani, Harikrishnan Nair Gopalakrishnan
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A system and method provide customized, logically-sequenced user experiences for configuring products having numbers of components and compatibility rules that have, until now, been too large for individually-customized configurators to be feasible. Embodiments analyze compatibility rules for all possible components to form a directed graph of which components affect the availability of other components in a product. This graph is then analyzed using a community detection algorithm, such as the Louvain algorithm, to identify clusters of closely-related components. Clusters as a whole are given directionality based on the directed graph of components. Then the clusters are sequenced using this directionality, so that customer configuration of components in later clusters may be affected by earlier choices, but not vice versa. Finally, the sequenced clusters are transformed into a product configuration workflow that provides a user experience similar to a custom configurator.
A system for providing, to an individual, an automatically generated custom configurator user experience for a product, selected by the individual from a plurality of products, each product in the plurality of products having one or more configurable components, the system comprising:
A method of providing, to an individual, an automatically generated custom configurator user experience for a product, selected by the individual from a plurality of products, each product in the plurality of products having one or more configurable components, the method comprising:
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