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Title:
MERCHANDISE SEARCH DEVICE FOR USE IN CYBER STORE, CYBER STORE SERVICE PROVIDING DEVICE, MEDIA, AND INFORMATION ASSEMBLY
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2003216647
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To solve the problem with cyber stores on the Internet: that, in cases where customers search for merchandise for themselves, methods of search are often difficult and the search will be unsuccessful if the customer's requirements for the merchandise are not clear.

The merchandise search device for searching a group of merchandise for merchandise close to the customer's requirements uses two vectors, a merchandise characteristic vector showing the characteristic of the merchandise in the form of a multidimensional vector, and a customer requirement vector showing the contents of the customer's requirements. By performing vector operations on the two vectors, the group of merchandise is searched for the merchandise close to the customer's requirements.


Inventors:
KATO HISANORI
MAEKAWA HAJIME
YAMAMOTO MUTSUKO
Application Number:
JP2002009703A
Publication Date:
July 31, 2003
Filing Date:
January 18, 2002
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD
International Classes:
G06Q30/06; G06F17/16; G06F17/30; G06Q50/00; (IPC1-7): G06F17/30; G06F17/16; G06F17/60
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Fumio Iwahashi (2 others)