公开(公告)号：US08850362B1

公开(公告)日：2014-09-30

申请号：US11948869

申请日：2007-11-30

申请人： Cyrus Khoshnevisan ,  Minal Mehta ,  Jason P. Patrikios ,  Scott Allen Mongrain

发明人： Cyrus Khoshnevisan ,  Minal Mehta ,  Jason P. Patrikios ,  Scott Allen Mongrain

IPC分类号： G06F3/048

CPC分类号： G06F17/30961 ,  G06F17/30864

摘要： A method and system are disclosed for browsing an electronic hierarchical product catalog. The catalog is organized as a tree data structure with each node corresponding to an item category, an item sub-category, or an attribute that describes characteristics of items in a category. Such attributes may be used as filters for searching for an item or item category. The catalog tree is a collection of linked independent sub-trees including category and attribute sub-trees. The sub-trees allow navigation of the catalog tree via links between various nodes. The sub-trees may be linked to multiple other sub-trees, providing easy navigation for users and simplifying the addition of new sub-categories and attributes to the catalog tree, for service providers. The use of linked sub-trees also allows attributes set by the user in a previous search to be used in a subsequent search for a similar item.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于浏览电子分级产品目录的方法和系统。 目录被组织为树状数据结构，每个节点对应于项目类别，项目子类别或描述类别中项目的特征的属性。 这些属性可以用作搜索项目或项目类别的过滤器。 目录树是链接的独立子树的集合，包括类别和属性子树。 子树允许通过各个节点之间的链接导航目录树。 子树可以链接到多个其他子树，为用户提供方便的导航，并为服务提供商简化向目录树添加新的子类别和属性。 使用链接的子树还允许用户在先前的搜索中设置的属性被用于后续搜索类似的项目。