US Patent 9460190 Attribute value dependent classification of items

Disclosed are various embodiments for automatically generating item taxonomies based upon attributes of an item. An item taxonomy application analyzes a set of items and an item taxonomy comprising at least one node to generate one or more item families associated with each node in the item taxonomy. The items in each item family have the same values in common for a number of attributes. As part of the generation of item families, a number of potential classification, categorization, or other taxonomic errors may be detected and reported.