Method and system of building store product finders

Abstract

One embodiment provides a system for building store product finders. The system may include: a product search engine configured to find, from product storage, a plurality of product subcategories that match at least one store product category of the plurality of store product categories, and a dominant product subcategory determining device configured to determine a dominant product subcategory. The dominant product subcategory has the highest product coverage among the plurality of product subcategories. The system may also include: a filter selecting device configured to select at least one product search filter from a list of product search filters, and a filter installing device configured to install the at least one product search filter in the store product finder.

1 . A method of building a store product finder, comprising:
 receiving a selection of a store product category associated with a store product finder;   finding a plurality of products that match the store category, each product matching to at least one product subcategory of the store product category, each product subcategory having a product coverage;   using one or more processors coupled to a memory, automatically determining a dominant product subcategory that has a highest product coverage among a plurality of product subcategories, the product coverage of a subcategory being a ratio of a sum of supplied products within the product subcategory to a sum of supplied products within the store product category;   presenting a list of product search filters predefined for the dominant product subcategory; and   installing into the store product finder at least one product search filter selected from the list of product search filters.   
     
     
         2 . (canceled) 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein designing the store product finder in the live preview environment includes:
 receiving a selection of a layout of the store product finder;   receiving a selection of a placement of the store product finder; and   receiving a custom cascading style sheet content to customize the store product finder.   
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising saving the store product finder in a store product finder storage. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising publishing by a publishing device the store product finder into production. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising embedding the store product finder into a webpage by an asynchronous JavaScript call, 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein the JavaScript call is sent via appending a JavaScript tag to a source code file of the webpage, wherein a URL of the JavaScript call includes an identification of the store product finder, wherein a response to the JavaScript call includes a customization information, and wherein the store product finder is embedded into the webpage based on the customization information. 
     
     
         8 . A system, comprising:
 one or more processors coupled to a memory;   a store product finder storage to store a plurality of store product finders, each store product finder being associated with a store product category of a plurality of store product categories;   a product search engine configured to find, from the product storage, a plurality of products matching at least one product subcategory of the store product category, each product subcategory having a product coverage;   a dominant product subcategory determining device configured to determine, by using at least one processor of the one or more processors, a dominant product subcategory that has a highest product coverage among a plurality of product subcategories, the product coverage of a subcategory being a ratio of a sum of supplied products within the product subcategory to a sum of supplied products within the store product category;   a filter selection device configured to select at least one product search filter from a list of product search filters predefined for the dominant product subcategory; and   a filter installing device configured to install the at least one product search filter into the store product finder.   
     
     
         9 . (canceled) 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 8 , further comprising a store product category storage to store the plurality of store product categories. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 8 , further comprising a display to present the list of product search filters predefined for the dominant product subcategory. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 8 , further comprising a dominant product subcategory storage to save the store dominant product subcategory. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 8 , further comprising a finder publishing device configured to publish the store product finder into production. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 8 , further comprising a live preview environment adapted to design the store product finder by receiving a selection of a layout of the store product finder, receiving a selection of a placement of the store product finder, and receiving input of a custom cascading style sheet (CSS) content to customize the store product finder. 
     
     
         15 . A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform a method comprising:
 receiving a selection of a store product category to be associated with a store product finder;   finding a plurality of products each matching at least one subcategory of the store product category, each product subcategory having a product coverage;   determining a dominant product subcategory that has a highest product coverage among a plurality of product subcategories, wherein the product coverage of a subcategory is a ratio of a sum of supplied products within the product subcategory to a sum of supplied products within the store product category;   presenting a list of product search filters predefined for the dominant product subcategory; and   installing into the store product finder at least one product search filter selected from the list of product search filters.   
     
     
         16 . (canceled) 
     
     
         17 . The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of  claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises assigning a title to the store product finder. 
     
     
         18 . The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of  claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises designing the store product finder in a live preview environment including. 
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of  claim 18 , wherein designing the store product finder includes:
 receiving a selection of a layout of the store product finder;   receiving a selection of a placement of the store product finder; and   receiving input of a custom cascading style sheet content to customize the store product finder.   
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of  claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises saving the store product finder in a store product finder storage. 
     
     
         21 . The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of  claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises embedding the store product finder into a webpage by an asynchronous JavaScript call. 
     
     
         22 . The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of  claim 19 , wherein the JavaScript call is sent via appending a JavaScript tag to a source code file of the webpage, wherein a URL of the JavaScript call includes an identification of the store product finder, wherein a response to the JavaScript call includes a customization information, and wherein the store product finder is embedded into the webpage based on the customization information.