Patent ID: 7398231
Filing Date: 2008-07-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of assisting a first user in supplementing the user's wardrobe for an event, the method comprising: (a) representing wardrobe information with a user wardrobe closet of the first user on a computer system, the wardrobe information being indicative of owned clothing of the first user, the wardrobe information being stored on a first computer memory electrically coupled to the computer system; (b) automatically identifying, by the computer system, a first article of clothing that has been removed from the user wardrobe closet of the first user from the wardrobe information by accessing the first computer memory; (c) retrieving, from a computer coupled to the user wardrobe closet of the first user with a computer network, the identification of a second article of clothing that forms a coordinated outfit with the first article of clothing; (d) storing, on a second computer memory, clothing information describing a selection of clothing by another user, the second computer memory being electrically coupled to the computer system; (e) receiving the clothing information from the second computer memory, the clothing information being indicative of another article of clothing that the other user plans to wear at the event; (f) displaying, to the first user, an identification of the second article of clothing for the first user; and (g) generating an alert when the second article of clothing and the first article of clothing are not in concert with the clothing information about the other article of clothing that the other user plans to wear.