公开(公告)号：US11593821B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US14622360

申请日：2015-02-13

Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

Inventor： Priscilla Barreira Avegliano ,  Sergio Borger ,  Carlos Henrique Cardonha ,  Ricardo Guimaraes Herrmann ,  Cesar Kawabata ,  Andrea Britto Mattos ,  Daniel Alves Da Silva

IPC: G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06Q30/0202 ,  G06Q10/0631 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  A47F5/00

Abstract: A method for calculating sales trend of a product at a store shelf based on crowdsourcing, includes receiving, by a retail store server, availability data of a product measured on a shelf in the retail store from a portable device, where the availability data is in the form of a picture acquired of the product on the shelf, identifying products on the shelf using tags attached to the shelves, calculating sales velocity and sales trends of the product from the identified products, and transmitting the sales velocity and sales trend of the product to one or more third parties' systems in a supply chain of said retail store. Products and their locations on retail store shelves have been cataloged in a product database.