System and method for directing a customer to additional purchasing opportunities

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8781917
APP PUB NO 20130080288A1
SERIAL NO

13681042

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A dynamic merchandising system creates for each of a plurality of products in a plurality of purchase orders a list of products purchased together. This information is then used to create ordered lists reflecting relationships between various product attributes, e.g., the relationships between different brand names purchased together, different product categories purchased together, different catalog pages of products purchased together, etc. From these ordered relationship lists information may be selected and presented to the customer for the purpose of directing the customer to additional purchasing opportunities.

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  • W.W. GRAINGER, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Carroll, Thomas John Algonquin, US 5 26
Westphal, Geoffry A Evanston, US 98 770

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