Procurement System Custom Paint Color Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional B2B commerce websites face challenges in accurately displaying custom paint colors due to display limitations, and customers often lose progress when switching between websites or exceeding timeout periods, leading to incomplete orders.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that generate a standardized color value for custom paint colors, allowing them to be stored and retrieved for display and pricing purposes, enabling customers to maintain a user account for price management and automatic quote retrieval, and utilizing an optical recognition component to match desired colors for paint mixing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If custom paint colors are displayed on conventional electronic displays, then color variety and customer selection are improved, but color accuracy and display precision deteriorate due to display spectrum limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an optical recognition component as an intermediary between the custom paint color (object) and the electronic display (detector). This component captures the actual color properties and translates them into standardized color values (such as RGB or HEX codes) that can be accurately represented on electronic displays, thereby resolving the contradiction between displaying a wide variety of custom colors and maintaining color accuracy within display limitations
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the physical color properties of custom paint into standardized digital color parameters through optical recognition. By converting analog color information into discrete digital values that fit within the display's color gamut, the system maintains color accuracy while enabling the display of diverse custom colors
2Adaptability or versatility
If customers switch between websites or exceed timeout periods to complete large orders, then price comparison and selection flexibility are improved, but order progress and time efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by automatically saving order progress and price information to a database before the customer leaves or the timeout period expires. This allows customers to resume their orders on different websites or after timeout periods without losing their progress, effectively eliminating the time loss while maintaining selection flexibility
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback by retrieving and restoring saved order information when customers return to complete their purchases. This feedback mechanism ensures that customers can continue their orders seamlessly across different sessions or websites, resolving the contradiction between flexibility and time efficiency
3Ease of operation
If conventional websites display typical product prices, then pricing simplicity and operation ease are improved, but customer-specific price accuracy and commercial value deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by displaying different prices to different customers based on their specific account information, purchase history, and negotiated rates. Instead of a uniform pricing approach, the system tailors the displayed price to each customer's local context, thereby maintaining pricing simplicity while achieving customer-specific price accuracy
Data Source
AI summary
A method of establishing a paint color to be displayed by a procurement system based on information received from an external punchout site. A formula corresponding to a desired paint color selected by a customer that is not included in a color palate of predefined colors regularly available for purchase from a paint supplier is received. Based on the formula, a standardized color value within a color gamut of the electronic display device is generated for the desired paint color. The standardized color value is stored in a network-accessible database entry specific to the customer to be retrievable by the customer over a communication network for generating a preview of the desired paint color during a subsequent purchase of paint having the desired paint color by the customer over the communication network.