Patent ID: 7346561

Claim:
A method of identifying clothing combinations, the method comprising: (a) identifying a first article of clothing and a search request by reading a tag embedded in a material of the first article of clothing; (b) identifying a set of rules for selecting clothing combinations; (c) transmitting a first article identification of the first article of clothing that is associated with a corresponding clothing category, the search request and an identifier that identifies the set of rules to a rules engine, wherein the identifier identifies one of a plurality of rule sets; (d) receiving a second article identification of a second article of clothing that satisfies the set of rules and that has a largest level of category matching for all category attribute pairs related to the corresponding clothing category, the set of rules providing an associated level of matching for each said category attribute pair, the second article of clothing being associated with a different clothing category than the corresponding clothing category; and (e) obtaining a selected identification of a selected clothing combination by comparing other attribute pairs that are related to the second article of clothing and that relate a first attribute and a second attribute, each said other attribute pair having an associated degree of matching, the selected clothing combination having a largest degree of matching of all said other attribute pairs.