E-commerce Size Customization for Tailored Apparel

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Solution Overview

Problem

E-commerce websites struggle to provide tailor-made clothing, shoes, and hats that fit individual body specifications, leading to frequent returns and exchanges due to improper fits.

Innovation Solution

An online method where e-commerce websites create personalized size customization options, allowing users to input or retrieve personal size parameters, which are then matched with stock products to produce tailored items, enabling precise fitting and mass production.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If fixed size parameters are used for online shopping, then manufacturing and inventory management are simplified, but product fit accuracy deteriorates leading to frequent returns

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing simplicityVSAvoidproduct fit accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the size parameter system into two parts: common size parameters (S, M, L, XL) for standard production, and personalized size parameters (specific body measurements) for customization. This segmentation allows most products to be produced using standard fixed sizes while enabling personalized adjustments when needed, thus maintaining manufacturing simplicity for the majority of cases while improving fit accuracy for individual customers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the size parameter from fixed categorical values (S, M, L, XL) to dynamic personalized parameters based on actual body measurements. The system collects specific body dimension data and uses it to determine the most appropriate size, transforming the static size selection process into a dynamic parameter-based customization process that improves fit accuracy while maintaining efficient production through standardized parameter sets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If personalized size customization is implemented, then product fit accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct fit accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal size parameter system that serves multiple functions: it handles both standard fixed-size orders and personalized customization orders through the same interface and processing logic. The system can process simple fixed-size selections and complex personalized measurements using a unified framework, reducing the need for separate systems and minimizing overall complexity while maintaining high fit accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses copying by storing and reusing standardized size parameter templates and body measurement data. Once a customer's body measurements are collected and processed, the resulting size parameters are stored and can be reused for future purchases, eliminating the need to重新collect and process the same data repeatedly. This copying mechanism reduces system complexity by avoiding redundant data collection and processing operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Productivity

If fixed size options are provided, then transaction speed is increased, but customer satisfaction decreases due to poor fit

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction speedVSAvoidcustomer satisfaction
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by collecting and processing customer body measurement data before the actual purchase decision. The system pre-calculates the most suitable size based on measured body dimensions and stores this information for quick retrieval during future transactions. This preliminary data collection and processing eliminates the need for customers to manually measure and compare sizes during each purchase, maintaining fast transaction speed while ensuring accurate fit through pre-computed personalized size recommendations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20240394767A1Method for consumers to purchase tailor-made clothing, shoes or hats online
Publication Date: 2024.11.28 LU TONGMING
  • US20240394767A1 patent drawing

AI summary

A method for consumers to purchase tailor-made clothing, shoes or hats online, the method including: the e-commerce website creates personal size customization route on the interface of clothing, shoes, and hats products; authorizing institutions or professionals measure various categories of clothing, shoes and hats as personal size parameters, input the measured personal size parameter values on the e-commerce website or third-party website as the personal size customization parameter information of the product. After the personal size customization parameter information is confirmed correct, and an order is placed, all the personal size customization parameters are attached to the order record on e-commerce website. The supplier or e-commerce website extracts the personal size customization parameters from the order record and obtains the personal size customization parameters origin from e-commerce website individually or in batches to collect, match, divide size, produce the final products.