Patent Document ID: 8332407
Application ID: 12052995
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for customer-choice-based bundling of product options, comprising the steps of: using a computer to define one or a plurality of groups of product component options exhibiting strong customer choice interdependencies by collecting customer choice data of multiple customers relating to a plurality of product component options of a non-standardized good, wherein the customer choice data of multiple customers is collected from previous orders, wherein each customer choice comprises a component option of the good, grouping said product component options from the customer choice data of multiple customers as elements in one or a plurality of sets of product component options by computing distances between choice pairs of said product components and, based on said distances, determining the extent to which the probability of a choice pair deviates from the expected probability under a null hypothesis of independence, and determining one or a plurality of bundles of product component options by the application of said clustering approach; and generating as output one or a plurality of lists of clustered product component options comprising said one or a plurality of bundles of product component options, wherein the options in each bundle can be combined in a single configuration for manufacture of the good.