| 摘要 |
Ranking and optimizing trips for several items to be purchased is described. In one embodiment, a method for ranking shopping trips includes receiving geographic location information, receiving a product item identifier for products to be purchased, searching inventories of one or more retailers for the products to be purchased and compiling search results, generating one or more shopping trips based on the search results and a compilation metric, ranking the one or more shopping trips according to a least cost metric, and displaying the ranked shopping trips. In other aspects, ranking and optimizing shopping trips further comprises calculating at least one of a total cost for the products to be purchased, a distance and time estimate for each of the shopping trips, a time cost for each of the shopping trips, and a transportation cost for each of the shopping trips. |
