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Effective stock keeping unit (SKU) management system

Grant US12579561B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

ADOBE INC.

Inventors

Michele Saad, Matthew Cecil Zimmerman

Abstract

An effective stock keeping unit (SKU) management system encodes catalog data into an embedding per catalog item. An embedding space is created by encoding catalog item data into an embedding per catalog item. The embedding is created by generating an index, where a number of rows represents a number of catalog items and a number of columns represents a number of fields associated with each catalog item. The index is then denormalized using customer groups and transformed by compressing the number of columns, to create the embedding space. In some configuration, a machine learning model is trained using catalog data. In the embedding space, item similarity is encoded by clustering catalog SKUs into groups in the embedding space, by placing similarly related items close to each other in the embedding space. Catalog items are then searched for in the embedding, with the closest clusters searched for a particular catalog item.

CPC Classifications

G06Q 30/0603 G06F 16/245 G06F 16/285 G06F 16/2272 H03M 7/30

Filing Date

2024-09-18

Application No.

18888379

Claims

15