COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PROCUREMENT OF ITEMS USING PARAMETRIC SEARCHING

Patent №

US 7,330,852

Granted

2008-02-12

Filed 2004

Owner

CATERPILLAR INC.

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10982358

A computer-implemented method for procuring one or more items includes, in response to user-provided data and after user selection of a search module using a client system, providing an item category. Based on user selection of the item category using the client system, one or more attributes associated with: all items in the item category are provided. Based on user input identifying an attribute value for at least one attribute, search results including one or more items matching the attribute value are generated. In response to user selection of a particular item from among the search results using the client system, an order request for the selected item is then generated.

Natural languageKnowledge representationPlanningG06Q 30/0601G06F 16/2428G06F 16/284Y10S 707/915Y10S 707/954Y10S 707/99933Y10S 707/99934Y10S 707/99935+1 more

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Natural language0.67
AI hardware0.36
Evolutionary computation0.05
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

CATERPILLAR INC.

assignment · 169910182

Assignors

I2 TECHNOLOGIES US, INC.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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