Electronic Catalog Generation with Drag-and-Drop Customization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional online shopping systems limit users' ability to customize item groupings based on their personal preferences, as they rely on the host site's determination of item relatedness, which may not align with individual users' needs.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for generating an electronic catalog that allows users to create customizable item groupings by searching, selecting, and arranging item listings from a database, using a tagged webpage template to extract and structure product data from seller sites, and dynamically generating a catalog that can be viewed and shared electronically.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the host site determines item relatedness and categorizes items into groups, then item organization is automated and efficient, but users cannot customize item groupings according to their personal preferences
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to create their own customized item groupings and electronic catalogs by selecting items from existing listings and arranging them according to personal preferences. Users directly control the catalog creation process rather than relying on automated host-site categorization, allowing full customization of item groupings while keeping the underlying system relatively simple.
2Ease of operation
If users can create arbitrary item groupings, then user preferences are satisfied, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides pre-existing item listings that have already been processed and structured by the host site. Users build their customized catalogs by selecting from these pre-prepared listings rather than creating items from scratch, which simplifies the user interface and operation while still allowing arbitrary groupings and arrangements.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for generating an electronic catalog for online computer users is disclosed. Item information from a seller site is retrieved based on a webpage template that corresponds to a structure of the seller site. Item information is stored in a database of item listings. Display of an item listing from the database of item listings is caused. A drag and drop selection of the displayed item listing is detected. The item listing is arranged on a page of a computer-generated electronic catalog based on the drag and drop selection of the item listing.