Patents by Inventor Colin E Little

Colin E Little has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Purchase sequence browser
    Patent number: 7962368
    Abstract: The invention provides a purchase sequence browser (PuSB), i.e. a graphical user interface (GUI) that facilitates insight discovery and exploration of product affinities across time, generated by a purchase sequence analysis of a retailer's transaction data. A purchase sequence browser allows the user to browse the most significant product phrases discovered by an exhaustive search of the product affinities across time; explore the retail grammar to create both forward and backward phrase trees or alternate purchase paths starting from, or ending in, a product; generate consistent purchase sequences given some constraints on the products and their order; and profile the value of a product across time with regard to other products fixed in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Fair Isaac Corporation
    Inventors: Shailesh Kumar, Megan Thorsen, Ashutosh Joshi, Sergei Tolmanov, Helen Geraldine E Rosario, Colin E Little
  • Purchase Sequence Browser
    Publication number: 20070282699
    Abstract: The invention provides a purchase sequence browser (PuSB), i.e. a graphical user interface (GUI) that facilitates insight discovery and exploration of product affinities across time, generated by a purchase sequence analysis of a retailer's transaction data. A purchase sequence browser allows the user to browse the most significant product phrases discovered by an exhaustive search of the product affinities across time; explore the retail grammar to create both forward and backward phrase trees or alternate purchase paths starting from, or ending in, a product; generate consistent purchase sequences given some constraints on the products and their order; and profile the value of a product across time with regard to other products fixed in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Shailesh Kumar, Megan Thorsen, Ashutosh Joshi, Sergei Tolmanov, Helen Geraldine E. Rosario, Colin E. Little