Method and apparatus for optimizing promotional sale of products

Details Method and apparatus for optimizing promotional sale of products Method and apparatus for optimizing promotional sale of products

1998-01-28

2000-02-22

Trammell, James P.

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

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705 14, G06F 1760

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ABSTRACT:
A system for optimizing the promotional sale of a product, a product segment, or a category which may take into account related products or competing products comprising means for generating a three-dimensional data structure corresponding to the sales history for a product, the data structure dimensions corresponding to an event type domain, a time domain, and a unit of measurement domain, means for populating the three-dimensional data structure, a neural network, means for training the neural network and means for applying sales objectives and constraints to the neural network.

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