Patent ID: 9483741
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,G06N,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for product classification, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors of a server, a product record associated with a product, the product record comprising a description of the product; generating, by the one or more processors, a first ranked list of product types based on the product record using a plurality of rule-based classifiers; generating, by the one or more processors, a second ranked list of product types based on the product record using a plurality of machine learning-based classifiers; aggregating, by the one or more processors, the first ranked list of product types and the second ranked list of product types to generate a combined ranked list of product types; providing the description of the product and a portion of the combined ranked list of product types to a crowdsourcing computer network for evaluation; and returning, from the crowdsourcing computer network, a validation decision, wherein: