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20100325011 | LISTING RECOMMENDATION IN A NETWORK-BASED SYSTEM - According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method to facilitate generating listing recommendations to a user of a network-based commerce system. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a term associated with a user interaction in a network-based commerce system. The method further includes generating a recommendation query including the identified term. In addition, the method includes running the recommendation query against a plurality of listings hosted by the network-based commerce system to identify a recommendation. Moreover, the method includes presenting the recommendation to a user of the network-based commerce system. | 12-23-2010 |
20110016020 | Pricing by historical comparison - In some embodiments, techniques for pricing may include detecting a visitor at an e-commerce site, determining that an item offered for sale at the e-commerce site is of potential interest to the visitor, detecting another e-commerce site at which the user has viewed the item, determining a historical price, wherein the historical price is associated with a web page, wherein the web page offered the item at the other e-commerce site, calculating an offering price, wherein the offering price is based on the historical price, offering the item to the visitor at the offering price, and selling the item to the visitor at the offering price. | 01-20-2011 |
20110022493 | Method and System for Determining a Hot Runner Component Configuration and Presenting Same to a Customer - Embodiments of the present invention teach a method and system for determining a hot runner component configuration and presenting same to a customer. For example, a method ( | 01-27-2011 |
20110029403 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETED MERCHANDISING TO RETURNING USERS - In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method to provide targeted merchandising is disclosed. Initially, an identity of a user (e.g., a returning buyer) is determined. A transaction history associated with the identity is then accessed. The transaction history is used to determine one or more related items from at least one familiar merchant. The at least one familiar merchant is a merchant having a previous relationship with the user. Representations of the one or more related items are then displayed to the user in a prominent manner. | 02-03-2011 |
20110066521 | SOCIAL WEBSITE DOMAIN REGISTRATION SEARCH ENGINE FEED - Systems and methods of the present invention provide for posting a search engine result to a feed from a social networking website. The feed may include an announcement of a registered domain name and a link to an associated website. A control panel for the registered domain name and associated website may be displayed on a client. | 03-17-2011 |
20110078040 | Method and process for choosing real estate to purchase requiring a transformative process using a machine - A transformative, machine based process for choosing real estate to purchase which automatically compiles a list of weighted preferences for a plurality of attributes which the user considers important in making a decision to purchase real estate, then assigns a numerical score to be initially assigned for each of such individual preference attributes, and which generates a report which can efficiently be used to decide which property to purchase. | 03-31-2011 |
20110082763 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF PERFORMING ACTS OF TRADE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM THEREFOR - A computer-implemented method electronically promotes simpler acts of purchase in a relation between a group of vendors and a shopper, whereby the buyer accesses a single front end interface, and goes through a one-time only act of registration procedure. | 04-07-2011 |
20110082764 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATING AND EVALUATING APPAREL - A computer implemented method and system for coordinating and evaluating apparel/accessory items. The system comprises a processor based client device and a processor based server. The client device receives information about an apparel/accessory item for coordination from a user. The server receives the information about the apparel/accessory item from the client device over a communications network. The server calculates a coordination score of the apparel/accessory item by applying a plurality of predetermined rules to determine if the apparel/accessory item coordinates with one or more apparel/accessory items in the virtual wardrobe. The server transmits a recommendation of one or more apparel/accessory items in said virtual wardrobe based on the coordination score. The virtual wardrobe can be user's apparels/accessories or a retailer's stock of apparels/accessories for sale. | 04-07-2011 |
20110093358 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COLLABORATIVE FILTERING OF USER DATA - A system gathers user behavior data from a group of web retailers and/or non-web retailers, analyzes the user behavior data to identify product recommendations for products offered by the web retailers, and provides one of the identified product recommendations in connection with a product page associated with one of the web retailers. | 04-21-2011 |
20110119147 | CONTENT SUPPLY SYSTEM AND CONTENT SUPPLY METHOD THEREOF AND DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A content supply system and a content supply method thereof, and a display device and a control method thereof which supplies content to the display apparatus, are disclosed. A content supply system, including a user terminal which is used to purchase content; a content supply server which stores therein purchase description information of the first content purchased through the user terminal, and supplies second content based on the purchase description information of the purchased first content; and a display device which transmits usage authorization information to the content supply server corresponding to the purchase description information of the purchased first content, and receives the second content from the content supply server. The present invention supplies content which is purchased by a user through a user terminal and enables a user to use the content without double payment for the content. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119148 | Server apparatus, information processing apparatus, and information processing method - A server apparatus includes: a trend leader detecting portion that acquires purchaser identifying information for identifying a purchaser who purchased the product at an early stage satisfying a predetermined time condition, from at least two pieces of purchase history information; a recommended product acquiring portion that acquires at least one piece of product identifying information for identifying a product purchased by at least one purchaser identified with at least one piece of purchaser identifying information that has been acquired by the trend leader detecting portion; and a recommended product transmitting portion that transmits the at least one piece of product identifying information that has been acquired by the recommended product acquiring portion, to an information output apparatus. With this server apparatus, recommendation of a product can be provided based on the behavior in which a trend leader purchases a product. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119149 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING MEDIA CONTENT PRESENTED ON A MEDIA PLAYING DEVICE - A media device generates a digital fingerprint of perceptual features of a segment of a work. The segment is less than an entirety of the work and includes at least one of audio or video media content. The media device sends a query to a lookup server for data associated with the work, the query including said digital fingerprint. The media device receives the data associated with said work from said lookup server in response to said query, wherein the data was identified based on a comparison of the digital fingerprint to a collection of digital fingerprints of known works. The media device then processes the received data. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119150 | OUTSOURCED GENERATION OF BEHAVIOR-BASED CONTENT - A service is disclosed for enabling web sites and other entities to provide item recommendations and other behavior-based content to end users. The service can be implemented as a web service that is remotely accessible over the Internet. Web sites use the web service's interface to report events descriptive of item-related actions performed by end users (e.g., item views, item purchases, searches for items, etc.). The web service analyzes the reported event data on an aggregated basis to detect various types of associations between particular items, and stores resulting datasets that map items to associated items. The web service's interface also provides various API calls for enabling the web sites to request item recommendations and other behavior-based content, including but not limited to personalized recommendations that are based on the event history of the target user. | 05-19-2011 |
20110131112 | METHOD OF PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION OF COMMODITY FOR ON-LINE SHOPPING MALL USERS - Disclosed is a method of providing customized product information. The method includes maintaining a basic index database for recording basic index data associated with a plurality of users for each product model, extracting the basic index data of the user corresponding to a predetermined classification standard from the basic index database, generating point information associated with each product model by calculating the extracted basic index data, and displaying each product model on a predetermined webpage according to the generated point information. | 06-02-2011 |
20110153451 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING A SOCIAL NETWORK TO PROVIDE PRODUCT RELATED INFORMATION - Social product related content, such as user reviews, comments, and catalogs, are presented to a user via an e-commerce website by assembling, in response to the user requesting accesses to a webpage of the e-commerce website having information for a product, such as a product detail page, a set of documents that have been cross-referenced to the product and by extracting from the set of documents a subset of documents that have been cross-referenced to individuals within a related persons map of the user. The requested webpage is then presented to the user in a manner that additionally provides the user with access to the subset of documents. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153452 | Contextual Commerce Systems and Methods - A system and method for context-sensitive, adaptive commerce is described that features recommendations of products and/or services based on system usage behaviors and supplier contextual information such as inventory levels. Adaptive commerce may include the bundling of a plurality of products and generating an associated price based, at least in part, on usage behavior information. Other contextual information related to the customer or supplier may also be applied in generating recommended products, bundles of products, product configurations, and corresponding prices. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161194 | Recommending a shoe size based on best fitting past shoe purchases - An application on an e-commerce website predicts the best fitting size of a desired shoe type selected by a user based on the best fitting shoes previously purchased by the user. A robotic measuring device is used to measure the inner dimensions of sizes of many shoe types, including first and second shoe types. The application determines that the user has purchased the first shoe type in a first size that fit the user well. The application compares the dimensions of the first size to the dimensions of various sizes of the second shoe type and identifies a second size of the second shoe type whose dimensions match the dimensions of the first size. The first shoe type is chosen from a shoe category similar to that of the second shoe type. The application then recommends that the second size of the second shoe type will fit the user well. | 06-30-2011 |
20110173089 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE SERVICES AND SOFTWARE - A method and system provides online software and services via prepaid scratchcards. Users may pay for online software and services with prepaid scratchcards. For example, online services may include accounting, legal, and auditing services. For example, online software may include productivity and business software. For example, online services and software may be provided on a subscription basis. Use of scratchcards may improve availability of software and services to more users, protect user security, and facilitate gifting between users. | 07-14-2011 |
20110178894 | System and Method for the Distribution and Consolidation of Apparel - A system and method of handling purchased goods, are disclosed. The system of handling purchased goods includes a graphical user interface that provides a user at least one fictitious mailing address and access to at least one vendor and a distribution center correspondent to the fictitious mailing address, where the user orders goods from the at least one vendor, and where the goods are consolidated at the distribution center for provision to, and return by, the user. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184831 | AN ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - An item recommendation process, executed by a computer system, including:
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20110184832 | System and Method for Networking Shops Online and Offline - Garments are presented to a consumer using a computer by reading a database of garments, wherein the database of garments includes parameters for at least some of the garments represented by records in the database of garments, the parameters including at least a garment type, reading data representing a plurality of garment types, the data including, for each type of the plurality of garment types, obtaining consumer measurements from the consumer or a source derived from the consumer, obtaining garment measurements for garments in the database of garments, comparing customer measurements to garment measurements, scoring garments from the database of garments based on garment measurements and customer measurements, and presenting the consumer or consumer representative with a computer generated filtered listed of garments from the database of garments ordered, at least approximately, according to garment scores, based on context. | 07-28-2011 |
20110196758 | INTELLIGENT BROADCAST TECHNIQUES TO OPTIMIZE WIRELESS DEVICE BANDWIDTH USAGE - A system and technique is described to enhance the use of limited bandwidth by intelligent broadcast, which would allow many more users to access content that was broadcast or downloaded by another user or group of users. While many users may download content that is specific to them, e.g., a flight itinerary, other users download the exact same content, e.g., a song or a movie, so the net result is that a significant portion of finite bandwidth is used repeatedly to download the same content. Furthermore, users, based on the type of user, or profiled users, will download the same content in the same general time period, for example, the release of a popular new album, movie or video. Content providers and wireless providers, who may be the same or different entities, may then share in the benefits of this approach, e.g., the savings in bandwidth usage and the improved distribution to the end user. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202423 | AUTOMOTIVE MARKET PLACE SYSTEM - A method for ranking vehicles for sale, the method comprising (1) providing a first database of available vehicles, (2) creating a second database of similar vehicles by identifying vehicles in the first database that are similar to a subject vehicle, and (3) creating a third database of ranked vehicles by determining a vehicle rank score of each of the vehicles in the second database, wherein determining a vehicle rank score of a vehicle comprises (a) calculating a base score of the vehicle, (b) calculating a multiplier of the vehicle, and (c) determining the vehicle rank score of the vehicle by multiplying the base rank by the multiplier. | 08-18-2011 |
20110213675 | SYSTEM FOR MAKING FINANCIAL GIFTS - A computer-implemented method for electronic gift giving. The method includes providing an internet site for access by a giver, prompting the giver to enter giver identification information, prompting the giver to enter recipient information, prompting the giver to enter a value of a monetary gift, optionally providing a plurality of possible recommended gifts or transfers of funds, prompting the giver to recommend at least one gift or transfer of funds to be effectuated using the monetary gift, prompting the giver to select a presentation template from a plurality of recommended presentation templates, prompting the giver to transfer the value of the monetary gift to a gift account, and storing the value of the monetary gift and the at least one recommended gift or transfer in association with the presentation template for delivery to a recipient. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213676 | System and Method for Integrated Recommendations - A recommendation appliance, system and method are provided for generating and deploying additional web page content or functionality (e.g., retail recommendations) to an existing web page server system. For example, the present invention may be embodied as a reverse proxy server that is inserted as an intermediate network node between a web server and the end users accessing the web server. In this position, the recommendation appliance can introduce recommendation messages to web pages generated by the web server without requiring any modification to the code or architecture of the web server. In addition, the appliance may separately track the transaction activities of end users who receive recommendation messages and the transaction activities of end users who do not receive recommendation messages, so that a comparison of the effectiveness of the recommendations may efficiently be demonstrated without requiring any modification to the code or architecture of the web server. | 09-01-2011 |
20110218876 | ONLINE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BRA RECOMMENDATIONS - An online bra recommendation system and method provide one or more customer specific size and style recommendations. The recommendations are based on a calculated customer specific bra size and one or more customer style preferences. The calculated customer specific bra size is based on customer measurements. The customer measurements may include a measurement above the bust, around the fullest part of the bust and around the ribcage, under the bust. The customer may be instructed as to how to take appropriate measurements. The recommendation may further be based on feedback regarding current bra size and fit issues. The recommendation may further be based on one or more feature selections. The information may be collected through an online system, the recommendation made by a professional and the recommendation communicated to the user through the online system. | 09-08-2011 |
20110231279 | MERCHANDISING ITEMS OF TOPICAL INTEREST - Various embodiments are described herein that provide one or more of a systems, methods, software, and data structures within an Internet marketplace context that are useful to promote products that may be associated with an event occurrence. Some embodiments further utilize collaborative filtering to augment event-based product recommendations. | 09-22-2011 |
20110238523 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COLLABORATIVE FILTERING OF SELLER PRODUCTS - A system gathers user behavior data from a group of web retailers and/or non-web retailers, analyzes the user behavior data to identify product recommendations for products offered by the web retailers, and provides one of the identified product recommendations in connection with a product page associated with one of the web retailers. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238524 | BROWSER-BASED RETRIEVAL AND DISPLAY OF CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH A LINK THAT MATCHES A LINK SIGNATURE - A page update handler, which may be loaded by a web browser as part of a web page, adds functionality for dynamically updating the web page with content supplied by a content server. The content may be related to a particular item detected on the web page by the page update handler, such as a link that matches a link signature. The content server may operate in a different Internet domain from the server that servers the original web page, and may supply content for display on web pages of many different independent web sites. In one embodiment, an operator of a web site that is separate from the content server can enable the display of content from the content server on the site's web pages by adding an update handler tag to one or more corresponding HTML documents. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238525 | DISCOVERY OF BEHAVIOR-BASED ITEM RELATIONSHIPS - Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238526 | System and Method for Modifying Package Service Subscriptions Online - A disclosed method allows service subscribers to modify service subscriptions online. Operations within the method may include receiving an order for a service package from a subscriber, wherein the service package includes multiple features. In response to the order, the features in the service package may automatically be cross referenced with a list of existing features for the subscriber to detect any overlap between the features in the service package and the existing features. In response to detecting an overlap, a subscription change request may automatically be computed, wherein subscription change request includes only the features in the service package that do not overlap the existing features. The subscription change request may then be submitted for implementation by a service provider, possibly after receiving confirmation of the change request from the subscriber. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246323 | USER SEGMENTATION FOR LISTINGS IN ONLINE PUBLICATIONS - A method and a system segmenting a user viewing listings in online publications to render the listing according to a rule received from a seller. For example, the system receives one or more listings submitted by a seller. The listing comprises one or more modifiable parameters. The system also receives a rule from the seller, the rule associated with a first listing of the one or more listings. A profile is associated with a user based on data collected about the user. The first listing is rendered to the user based on the profile associated with the user and the rule by modifying the one or more parameters. | 10-06-2011 |
20110251918 | RECOMMENDATION-GUIDED INTERNET PURCHASES UTLIZING CONTEXT DERIVED FROM A CONSTELLATION OF DEVICES - An embodiment of the present invention provides an Internet access device, comprising a processor adapted to provide recommendation-guided Internet purchases by identifying purchasing opportunities that would be directly relevant to a user of said Internet access device, wherein the Internet access device would utilize context received from the user's constellation of devices to develop a profile of the user's purchasing behavior, and automatically offer purchasing opportunities that are most likely to be of interest to the user. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258071 | Spectacle Lens Selection System and Spectacle Lens Selection Method - A spectacle lens selection system includes a manufacturer side terminal and a store side terminals installed in a store and is connected to the manufacturer side terminal via a network. The store side terminal transmits a wearing condition parameters including a downward rolling length of eyes and a lateral gaze length of a spectacle wearer to the manufacturer side terminal, and the manufacturer side terminal selects a most suitable product based on the wearing condition parameters, and transmits the result to the store side terminal. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258072 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RECURRING ORDERS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK - A recurring order management system and method for a computer network is disclosed. The system receives a request to suggest a recurring order for one or more products or services. The system generates a profile which stores the suggested products or services, the suggested recurrence for those products or services and the suggested quantities to deliver upon each recurrence. The order then automatically recurs one or more times according to the specified recurrence. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS - A method of providing recommendations is disclosed and includes receiving a selection of an offering via an online site. The method also includes outputting a detail page related to the offering via the online site. The detail page includes a first selectable indicator corresponding to a social network of a visitor and a second selectable indicator corresponding to unfiltered content. The method also includes outputting at least one recommendation via the detail page. Each recommendation is associated with a member of the social network when input received via the online site indicates a selection of the first selectable indicator. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264553 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS CAPABLE OF DELIVERING PURCHASE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON AN INTERACTIVE MOBILE SHOPPING APPLICATIONS - An embodiment of the present invention provides a mobile device, comprising a processor adapted to deliver purchase recommendations to a user of the mobile device based on an interactive mobile shopping application by interacting by the user with the mobile device, and on which the interactive mobile shopping application resides, to refine the user's interests and obtain recommendations for alternative products that may better fit the user's needs, and wherein the mobile device is further adapted to collect information about the user's in-market interests and overall shopping patterns thereby allowing opportunities for targeted advertising. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270703 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COLLABORATIVE FILTERING BASED ON ATTRIBUTE PROFILING - A system and/or a method of collaborative filtering based on attribute profiling is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a product profile of a content-based product through applying any number of value data assigned by a user to a set of attributes embodying possible reasons as to why the user reacts to the content-based product, generating a user profile of a user through applying a group of value data assigned by the user to a content-based product sharing the set of attributes and recommending a different content-based product to the user when a different product profile of the different content-based product matches with the user profile beyond a threshold value. The method may include recommending the different content-based product to a different user when a different user profile of the different user matches with the user profile of the user who has subscribed to the different content-based product. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276429 | Method and System for Facilitating On-Line Shopping - A shopper is presented with a customized online store whose inventory is defined by the shopper. In one embodiment, specification of the inventory is conducted in a bricks and mortar store—either during checkout, or by the shopper walking the aisles and scanning items with a barcode scanner pen or the like. The inventory may be defined—at least in part—by scanning items in the shopper's home. A variety of other novel features useful in on-line shopping are also disclosed. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282758 | ITEM RECOMMENDATION SERVICE - A computer-implemented recommendation service uses item-to-item relationship mappings to select items to recommend to the user. The item-to-item relationship mappings may reflect user-behavior-based (e.g., purchase-based) item relationships, content-based item relationships, or a combination thereof. In one embodiment, personalized recommendations are generated for a user by a process that comprises retrieving from the mapping, for each of a plurality of items of interest to the user, a respective related items list; weighting the related items lists based on information regarding the user's affinity for the corresponding items of interest; combining the weighted related items lists to form a pool of scored items, and selecting items from the pool to recommend to the user. | 11-17-2011 |
20110295711 | Apparel Fit Advisory Service - A data processing method determines an appropriate size of a selected apparel for an individual based on the individual's fit indicators characterizing the fit of apparels to the individual. The fit indicators factor in the individual's body profile and fit preferences. The method employs data on fit indicators associated with other individuals, where these fit indicators are for apparels that are at least of the same type and style as the apparel in question. In addition, at least one fit indicator associated with the other individuals is related to a certain size of the apparel in question. | 12-01-2011 |
20110302050 | SMART PHONE PROBE AND APPLICATION FOR SKI WAX RECOMMENDATION - The system may include a multi-function probe, a recommendation engine, a transaction engine, a user interface, a third-party interface, and a social network portal. The multi-function probe may be configured to connect to a smartphone through a wired or wireless (e.g. BLUETOOTH) connection for sensing one or more of air temperature, snow temperature, humidity, salinity, and the like. Further, the recommendation engine may receive input about snow and weather conditions and may provide a recommendation for a ski wax, and the like. The recommendation engine may also (i) receive input including user input, (ii) examine a database of ski wax offerings, and (iii) make a ski wax recommendation based at least in part on the input and other information that may be accessible in a ski wax offering database. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307350 | ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, ITEM RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - An item recommendation system includes: a feedback receiving unit receiving feedbacks with respect to items by users; a feedback history storage unit storing information of feedbacks received at present or in the past by the feedback receiving unit in units of combinations of users and items; a relevance calculation unit calculating relevance between items base on first information indicating the degree in which the same user gives feedbacks to respective items and second information indicating the degree in which many users give feedbacks by using feedback information stored by the feedback history storage unit when receiving the feedback by the feedback receiving unit; and a recommendation unit immediately recommending items having higher relevance with respect to the item to the user who has given the feedback to the item by the feedback receiving unit based on the relevance calculated by the relevance calculation unit. | 12-15-2011 |
20110313880 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES - Embodiments of the present invention include various steps, which will be described below. The steps may be embodied in machine-executable instructions. The instructions can be used to cause a general-purpose or special-purpose processor to perform certain steps. Alternatively, these steps may be performed by specific hardware components that contain hardwired logic for performing the steps, or by any combination of programmed computer components and custom hardware components. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320307 | CONTEXT-INFLUENCED APPLICATION RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for recommending content based on context such as location. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data that references a location of a mobile device, selecting, from among multiple, different applications that are available in an online application marketplace, one or more of the applications that are relevant to the location, and providing, by a recommendation server, a recommendation to the mobile device, where the recommendation identifies the one or more applications as applications that the user is likely to be interested in purchasing or downloading. | 12-29-2011 |
20120016764 | Commerce System and Method of Controlling the Commerce System Using an Optimized Shopping List - A commerce system involves transactions between manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and consumers. Product information for a plurality of products is collected and stored in a database. A website is provided for a consumer to create a shopping list with weighted product attributes. A baseline product value is determined for each of the products. A consumer weighted product value is determined based on the baseline product value and the weighted product attributes. A discounted offer is generated for the consumer. A product score is determined based on the consumer weighted product value and retailer product value. The shopping list is optimized based on the product score. The optimized shopping list is provided to the consumer to assist with purchasing decisions. Purchasing decisions within the commerce system are controlled by enabling the consumer to select the products for purchase based on the optimized shopping list. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016765 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING CHANNELS TO USERS - A comprehensive platform for merchandising intellectual property (IP) and conducting IP transactions is disclosed. A standardized data collection method enables IP assets to be characterized, rated and valuated in a consistent manner. Project management, workflow and data security functionality enable consistent, efficient and secure interactions between the IP Marketplace participants throughout the IP transaction process. Business rules, workflows, valuation models and rating methods may be user defined or based upon marketplace, industry or technology standards. | 01-19-2012 |
20120022967 | MIXED SOURCE MEDIA PLAYBACK - Playlists having media items from more than one source are described. Media items in a first library are mapped to media items from an online media item store. Media items within the playlist that can be found in the first library will be played from the first library, while media items not within the first library will be played from the online media store. By identifying media items present in both libraries and playing them only from the first library, the described method can reduce the royalties needing to be paid by the online media store. Further methods are disclosed for setting limits on the number of media items that can be shared by a second library. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030060 | DETERMINING A LIKELIHOOD OF SUITABILITY BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA - Some embodiments of the invention determine whether a particular item is likely to suit a consumer from a fit and/or style standpoint, using objective data produced as a result of the consumer's experiences. For example, some embodiments of the invention analyze information regarding a consumer's experiences with certain products (e.g., purchase and return history, identification of “favorite” items, etc.) and data regarding attributes of those items (e.g., technical dimension data, stylistic and fit attributes, etc.) to determine the consumer's measurements and fit and/or style preferences, so that a prediction may be made regarding how a particular size of an item may suit the consumer. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030061 | FIT RECOMMENDATION VIA COLLABORATIVE INFERENCE - Some embodiments of the invention provide techniques for recommending a size of a subject item to fit a subject consumer. In some embodiments, clusters of consumers with fit characteristics similar to the subject consumer are identified, using one or more data clustering algorithms, based on any of numerous consumer attributes (e.g., self-reported and/or inferred height, weight, body shape, body characteristics, and/or purchase histories (e.g., consumers with high overlap in terms of sets of products purchased)). Information on other consumers in the cluster may be analyzed to draw conclusions on how different sizes of the subject item may fit the subject consumer. For example, the purchase history of other members of the cluster may be analyzed to determine whether other members purchased a particular size of the item, and if so, the size purchased by the other members may serve as a basis to recommend a size that may best fit the consumer. For example, if other members of the cluster purchased a particular size, then that size may be recommended to the subject consumer, or if other members of the cluster purchased and then returned a particular size (e.g., for being too small), then another (e.g., larger) size may be recommended to the subject consumer. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030062 | ENABLING PROXY SHOPPING - Some embodiments of the invention enable a buyer to shop for and purchase items for a recipient with confidence. For example, some embodiments of the invention enable a recipient to create a profile that may be accessed to make recommendations to a buyer on items deemed likely to suit the recipient in any of numerous ways (e.g., those deemed likely to fit the recipient, be age-appropriate, reflect the recipient's style, suit the recipient's fit preferences, conform to the recipient's measurements, etc.). In some embodiments, a recipient may indicate that certain, or all, aspects of the profile be kept private, so that the buyer need not know information about the recipient such as his/her body measurements, fit preferences, style preferences, and/or other information to be able to shop confidently for the recipient. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030063 | Physical Site-Contextualized Recommender - A site-contextualized method, system, and device generates recommendations based on usage behaviors and a physical site layout. The recommendations may comprise one or more products, and a recommendation may be accompanied with an associated price. The recommendations may be based on an inference of a preference and/or in accordance with a physical object. Information as to why the recommendation was delivered to a recommendation recipient may be provided to the recommendation recipient. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030064 | Physiological-Responsive Recommender System and Device - A physiological-responsive computer-implemented system and device generates recommendations based on usage behaviors, including physiological responses such as body movements and gestures. The recommendations may be based on an inference of a preference and/or in accordance with the location or proximity of a physical object, and may be delivered in the context of the recommendation recipient interacting with a computer-implemented game. Information as to why the recommendation was delivered to a recommendation recipient may be provided to the recommendation recipient. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036037 | Product reccommendation system - Product recommendation is disclosed, including retrieving user behavior data associated with a predetermined statistical period; sorting the user behavior data into one or more groups of data corresponding to one or more types of products based at least in part on associated product identifiers; determining a plurality of interest levels associated with the predetermined statistical period for at least one or more groups of data; determining a plurality of purchase peak probabilities using at least the plurality of interest levels, wherein a purchase peak probability is associated with a predicted likelihood of user interest in receiving recommendations associated with a type of product; ranking at least a portion of the plurality of purchase peak probabilities in response to receipt of an indication to present recommendation information; and presenting recommendation information based at least in part on the ranked at least portion of the plurality of purchase peak probabilities. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036038 | AUTOMATED CONSUMER TO BUSINESS ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE SYSTEM - An automated consumer to business electronic marketplace system is presented, wherein various aspects of user status, user behavior or operation of a vehicle associated with user are monitored and reported to an electronic marketplace. Suppliers of insurance products and other suppliers of automobile or personal products or services may offer users prices for products or services based on the data reported. The system may further allow the user to choose monitoring and reporting options based on discounts offered for certain reporting options. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041840 | HOT BUTTON FOR PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTIC AND RECOMMENDATION - A hot button can be pressed to cause a computer to execute a series of diagnostic tests to identify the cause of poor computer performance. When a cause is determined a website address can be presented that a user can access to purchase goods or services to alleviate the cause, and billing information may be generated in response to presentation of the website. | 02-16-2012 |
20120059735 | Product recommendations - A technique of product recommendations is disclosed, including: determining user characteristic information and product characteristic information for a user; determining at least one of a basic recommended product set and an auxiliary recommended product set for the user; receiving an indication associated with a type of the user's network operation; generating product recommendations based at least in part on type of the user's network operation and at least one of the basic recommended product set and the auxiliary recommended product set for the user; and presenting the generated product recommendations. | 03-08-2012 |
20120066087 | Generating product recommendations - Generating product recommendations, including: receiving an indication of a user operation associated with a product; determining a plurality of associated products for the product associated with the user operation; determining a plurality of comprehensive correlation degrees corresponding to the plurality of associated products, wherein each of the plurality of comprehensive correlation degrees corresponds to an association between the product and one of the plurality of associated products, wherein determining a comprehensive correlation degree corresponding to the product and an associated product includes: determining a product information association degree corresponding to the product and the associated product; and determining an attribute information association degree corresponding to the product and the associated product; selecting a subset of the plurality of associated products based at least in part on a condition associated with the corresponding plurality of comprehensive correlation degrees; and presenting the subset of the plurality of associated products. | 03-15-2012 |
20120072302 | Data-Driven Item Value Estimation - Data-driven item value determinations for a user-interested topic are automatically generated and made available to a user for rendering effective, efficient decisional choices on one or more aspects of the user-interested topic. Information on components of the user-interested topic relevant to a user's decisional choices are mined from the internet and collated to generate values that identify optimum user choices. User input is utilized to tailor generated value determinations for specific user preferences, issues and/or concerns. Data-driven item value determinations can be generated for a host of user-interested topics including, but not limited to, eating establishment nutritional choices and shopping mall criteria. | 03-22-2012 |
20120078746 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISCOVERY OF RELATED INTERACTABLE ITEMS IN A MOBILE STORE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and apparatus for providing interactable item suggestions may include selecting a seed interactable item and determining a first set of one or more interactable items related to the seed interactable item based on one or more data sources. The methods and apparatus may further include generating a graphical presentation with a first set of interactable items with the seed interactable item and the one or more related interactable items. The methods and apparatus may also include generating a new graphical presentation of a second set of one or more interactable items related to a selected interactable item. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078747 | RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM CAPABLE OF ADAPTING TO USER FEEDBACK - A recommendation system uses feedback from users on specific item recommendations to assess the quality of the recommendation rules used to generate such recommendations. The feedback may be explicit (e.g., a user rates a particular recommended item), implicit (e.g., a user purchases a recommended item), or both. The system may use these assessments to modify the degree to which particular recommendation rules are used to generate recommendations. For instance, if a particular recommendation rule leads to negative feedback relatively frequently, the system reduce or terminate its reliance on the rule. In some embodiments, the system may also increase its reliance on recommendation rules that tend to produce positive feedback. | 03-29-2012 |
20120089478 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR USING STORED CONJOINT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE ITERATION DATA IN CONJOINT ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT PRODUCT OR SERVICE COMBINATIONS - The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for using stored conjoint analysis software iteration data in conjoint analysis of different product or service combinations. A method for using stored conjoint analysis software iteration data in conjoint analysis of different product or service combinations is provided. The method includes, storing, in memory accessible by a computer, conjoint analysis software iteration data from an iteration of the conjoint analysis software against a first set of product or service combinations and using the stored conjoint analysis software iteration data as input to conjoint analysis software being executed. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089479 | Electronic system and method for providing beauty solutions - The present invention is directed to an electronic system and method for providing beauty solutions and/or treatments, when trying to cure beauty problems. The electronic system and method can provide useful information on hair solutions and recommend products, allowing a user to select a beauty treatment regime based on the user's present beauty problems and a variety of additional selection criteria. | 04-12-2012 |
20120095861 | PERSONAL CUSTOMER CARE AGENT - Aggregating information includes configuring, by at least one processor, a user profile that indicates user preferences for aggregated information. The at least one processor monitors information sources including the World Wide Web, business websites of interest, and online social media, based on the user preferences. Data obtained from the information sources is presented, based on the monitoring, by the at least one processor, in accordance with a presentation format, as the aggregated information, based on the user preferences. The at least one processor triggers updating of the presented aggregated information based on a change to the data at least one of the information sources and a change to the user profile. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095862 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING DATA SETS AND GENERATING PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS - Embodiments of the invention relate to a computer-implemented method and system for generating personalized recommendations for a target user based at least on stored data about the target user. The method comprises obtaining, at the server computer, data from a plurality of data sources, including entity data associated with a plurality of entities, stored in an entity database, or personal data associated with a plurality of users, stored in a user database. The personalized recommendations system then merges the entity data or personal data and maps the entity or personal data to a corresponding entity or target user, respectively. The entity or personal data is differentiated, a relevance is determined, a weight is assigned to the data and corresponding source to canonicalize the data, the respective databases are updated with the corresponding data, and then a set of personalized recommendations to the target user is generated using the updated databases. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095863 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING DATA SETS AND PROVIDING PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS - Embodiments of the invention relate to a computer-implemented method and system for providing personalized recommendations for a target user based at least on stored data about the target user. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of feedback data from a plurality of users, wherein the feedback data comprises an indication of a media object, a response obtained from target user related to the feedback data, and at least one demographic data element associated with the target user. A set of personalized recommendations for the target user are identified based at least on stored data about the target user and the feedback data related to the user. The personalized recommendations system identifies media objects to potentially provide to the target user, and selects or filters the identified media objects to form a set of personalized media objects associated with the set of personalized recommendations. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095864 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE PUBLICATION - Methods and system for mobile publication are described. A captured image may be accessed. A bar code may be decoded from the captured image. An item associated with the bar code may be identified. An item listing of the item may be generated in accordance with the identifying of the item. The item listing may be utilized for posting with a listing manager. One or more item listings for the item may be identified. At least one item listing of the one or more item listings may be provided for presentation in accordance with the searching of the plurality of item listings. | 04-19-2012 |
20120109778 | ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM WHICH CONSIDERS USER RATINGS OF ITEM CLUSTERS - Various computer-implemented processes are disclosed for using item clustering methods in the process of generating personalized item recommendations for users. One process involves applying a clustering algorithm to a user's collection of items, and using information about the resulting clusters to select items to use as recommendation sources. Personalized recommendations may then be generated based on the selected source items. Another process involves displaying the clusters of items to the user via a collection management interface that enables the user to rate entire clusters of items. The resulting cluster ratings may be used to select recommendation sources, and/or may otherwise be considered in generating recommendations for the user. Cluster-based processes are also disclosed for filtering and organizing the output of a recommendation engine. | 05-03-2012 |
20120116915 | Mobile-Based Real-Time Food-and-Beverage Recommendation System - Particular embodiments extract a plurality of users, a plurality of establishments, and a plurality of items from dining information provided by at least one of the plurality of users, each of the plurality of establishments sells food or beverage; construct a user-establishment matrix, a user-item matrix, and an establishment-item matrix using the plurality of users, the plurality of establishments, and the plurality of items; generate a user latent representation for the plurality of users, an establishment latent representation for the plurality of establishments, and an item latent representation for the plurality of items; and compute one or more correlations using the user latent representation, the establishment latent representation, or the item latent representation, wherein each of the one or more correlations is between two users, two establishments, two items, one user and one establishment, one of user and one item, or one establishment and one item. | 05-10-2012 |
20120116916 | SHOPPING ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Shopping systems and methods that automate the merchandise selection process are implemented for producing picking/shipping documents that allow the merchandise to be picked at a warehouse and sent to recipients. The initiator of the process is a purchaser that specifies the recipients' demographics and other parameters as they relate to the merchandise. The purchaser may also specify various constraints that both limit the amount of merchandise selected and filter the merchandise to better match the recipients' requirements as a group. | 05-10-2012 |
20120116917 | FASHION MATCHING ALGORITHM SOLUTION - In one example embodiment, a system and method is illustrated that includes receiving an item choice including a fashion item. The system and method also includes matching the fashion item with an additional fashion item selected from a style matrix, the matching based upon an attribute. Further, the system and method includes transmitting the additional fashion item as part of an outfit match set. Moreover, the system and method includes selecting the fashion item from a digital closet. The system and method includes processing the fashion item to build an attribute association matrix. In addition, the system and method includes comparing the attribute association matrix and the style matrix to determine a match of the fashion item and the additional item. | 05-10-2012 |
20120123898 | GENERATING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS FOR A COMPUTING SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a configuration server, requirements data identifying computing requirements of a customer. The computer-implemented method includes receiving, at the configuration server, inventory information descriptive of a computing inventory of the customer. The computer-implemented method also includes accessing compatibility rules that specify hardware and software to enable particular computing requirements. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a plurality of configuration options to implement the computing requirements of the customer based on at least one of the requirements data, the computing inventory, and the compatibility rules. The plurality of configuration options include at least one customer premises equipment (CPE)-based configuration, at least one cloud computing-based configuration, and at least one hybrid CPE-cloud computing-based configuration. The computer-implemented method includes comparing the plurality of configuration options based on customer preferences. The computer-implemented method also includes providing at least one configuration recommendation based on comparing the plurality of configuration options. | 05-17-2012 |
20120123899 | SOCIAL NETWORK SHOPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A product discovery method displaying products and social media in random order from a preselected list. The user provides comments for individual products or social media. Based on user comments, a preselection of products and social media is filtered to the interests of the individual user. The method therefore focuses over time more and more to the real areas of interests of the individual user. | 05-17-2012 |
20120130847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING IN AN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ENVIRONMENT - A method of searching an electronic commerce website includes searching a plurality of user profiles based upon a user-supplied search query for an item, establishing an interactive online session between the user and the at least one search facilitator, and providing for the at least one search facilitator to present one or more suggested item listings to a user through the electronic commerce website. The searching identifies at least one search facilitator profile among the plurality of user profiles. The search facilitator profile represents a search facilitator who can assist the user in locating the item within the electronic commerce website. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130848 | Apparatus, Method, And Computer Program For Selecting Items - A similar item set making section makes a similar item set corresponding to a target item. With respect to a first set of some or all of items in the similar item set, a first rate calculating section calculates a first rate. An item characteristic value calculating section calculates an item characteristic value by using the first rate. An item selecting section makes, from items in the similar item set, an associated item set corresponding to the target item. Recommended item conditions are for deciding whether or not an item should be recommended. The associated item set is designed so that when the item characteristic value satisfies prescribed item characteristic value conditions, the rate of the number of items satisfying recommended item conditions in the associated item set to the number of all items therein is greater than the first rate and smaller than 1. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130849 | Method to Facilitate A Platform For Providing Shopping Advice - Disclosed is a method and a system to facilitate a platform for experts to provide shopping advices to shoppers. Specifically, a method for automatically changing url links, in real time or on static page, having product ID and merchant ID to further including expert ID, shopper ID and/or affiliate ID is disclosed wherein it enables individuals and other business entities (“experts”) with expertise in particular fields to recommend, review, and/or market products tailored to the specific needs of the consumers (“shopper”), in return for a commission, that are sold from a merchant's website. | 05-24-2012 |
20120136750 | Method, system and controller for providing goods and /or services to consumers - A method, system and controller is provided for a selection service recommending or providing access to goods or service items to a consumer, comprising the steps of: identifying a set of available items at least some of which require payment to item providers for access ( | 05-31-2012 |
20120143718 | OPTIMIZATION OF A WEB-BASED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A method for determining product recommendations to be presented to users includes forming, by a formula generation module, a plurality of different recommendation formulas, including, for each recommendation formula, assigning a weight to at least some of a plurality of recommendation characteristics, wherein each recommendation characteristic is representative of at least one of a characteristic of a product, a characteristic of a method for presenting the product recommendations to the users, and a characteristic of a user. The method further includes iteratively performing the steps of: for each of the plurality of recommendation formulas, selecting, by a product recommendation module, at least one product for presentation to the users on the basis of the corresponding recommendation formula; sending, by a communications module, instructions to a server to present the selected product to the users; receiving, by a data evaluation module, data representative of user responses to each of the products presented to the users; evaluating, by the data evaluation module, the received data; and selecting, using the data evaluation module, a subset of the recommendation formulas included in the plurality of recommendation formulas on the basis of the evaluation of the collected data. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143719 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING NETWORK BETWEEN USERS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus configure a network between users in a communication system. In a server, the method includes receiving user information from a terminal for purchasing contents, storing information on a purchaser for each of a plurality of contents, and configuring the network including users who purchase identical contents. Accordingly, the network can be automatically configured between user terminals on the basis of a contents purchase history of the user terminal in the communication system. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150681 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS DETERMINED TO BE USEFUL IN THE PERFORMANCE OF A TASK - A retailer computer system facilitates the purchase of products that are determined to be useful in the performance of a task by presenting to a consumer a first user interface by which the consumer may select a task from a repository of tasks, each task stored in the repository of tasks having documented instructions, such as a recipe, for performing the task, by presenting in a web page the documented instructions of the selected task, by using one or more keywords within the documented instructions of the selected task to select at least one product from an electronic product catalog, the selected at least one product being one or more of a part, such as a recipe ingredient, and a tool, such as an appliance, usable in performing the task, and by presenting to the consumer a second user interface for allowing the consumer to purchase via use of an online retail channel the selected at least one product. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150682 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING PRODUCT SUBSTITUTIONS ALONG MULTIPLE CRITERIA IN RESPONSE TO A SALES OPPORTUNITY - A system and method evaluate product substitutions along multiple criteria in response to a sales opportunity, for instance, providing sales recommendations of configurable products in response to a customer request based on propensity functions. A customer propensity is determined to estimate attractiveness of a substitute product to a customer based on one or more attributes. A seller propensity is determined to estimate attractiveness to a seller of selling the substitute product based on one or more attributes. The customer propensity and the seller propensity are combined to find a plurality of substitute products. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158536 | IDENTIFYING CONTENT PURCHASING OPTIONS BASED ON USER PREFERENCES - Identifying content purchasing options based on user preferences is described. In one aspect, a system receives user content preferences. Multiple content packages associated with a content provider are identified such that the content packages include at least a portion of the user content preferences. The system identifies any user content preferences missing from each of the multiple content packages. Based on the identified content packages and the user content preferences, a listing of content purchasing options is generated that is appropriate for the user. The listing of content purchasing options also includes any user content preferences missing from each of the multiple content packages. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158537 | Topical Page Layout - In some implementations, a product category web page includes a middle region with recommend products and topical information. The middle region optionally includes three columns with recommend products in the center column and topical information in the outer columns. In some implementations, the topical information is associated with the product category. The topical information in certain embodiments helps a search engine determine product results for a natural language query and the product results are presented in the product tile array. In one implementation, the product web page is a product specific web page. The product specific web page may include an upper region with a horizontal rotating product carousel. The product carousel optionally permits a user to select and view information relating to products in a product category or products that are related to each other. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158538 | TERMINAL SYSTEM, SHOPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHOPPING USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a terminal system including: a first terminal, which is installed on a first indoor transport unit of shopping products, to be connected to a server through a first wireless LAN device installed on a first display stand and generates first product information of products arranged on the first display stand in connection with the server; and a second terminal, which is installed on a second indoor transport unit of the shopping products, to be connected to the server though a second wireless LAN device installed on a second display stand and generates a second product information of products arranged on the second display stand in connection with the server, wherein the first and the second terminals inter-exchange the first product information and the second product information through the first wireless LAN device, the second wireless LAN device and the server. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166303 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN SELLERS AND BUYERS - Described are systems and methods for facilitating an on-line transaction. An information item is received from an on-line location. The information item is related to an available item. A potential recipient of the available item is identified. The potential recipient is qualified for notification of the available item by determining a physical proximity between the available item and an offeror of the item. The potential recipient is qualified for notification of the available item by determining a relationship between the offeror of the item and the potential recipient. An electronic notification is generated for the qualified potential recipient in response to the physical proximity determination and the relationship determination. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173383 | Method for implementing buddy-lock for obtaining media assets that are consumed or recommended - A user who recommends media assets can have a second user link or lock onto such recommendations. The second user is then presented with the option to receive such assets, when purchased. Such recommendations can be presented on a per asset or on an asset class level. The pricing of such assets can be modified based on the number of assets that are purchased and in relationship to the number of links that the second user has to other users. | 07-05-2012 |
20120185354 | IDENTIFYING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES BASED ON A BUDGET - A system, a method, a server, a computer processing platform, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for enabling the identifying of products and services on-line based on a user budget. A financial budget is generated based on personal financial information provided by a user. Search criteria are generated based on the budget and product/service criteria provided by the user. A search engine is accessed to initiate an on-line search using the generated search criteria. Returned search results are processed to generate purchase recommendations for the user based on the budget and the product/service criteria. The purchase recommendations are sent to the user where the user may make a purchase request based on the recommendations. The purchase of a product or service may be facilitated in response to the purchase request and the budget may be updated based on the purchase. | 07-19-2012 |
20120191564 | System And Method For Anonymously Matching Products Or Services With A Consumer - A system and method for anonymously matching products or services with a consumer, based on the consumer's true consumption behaviour. Each consumer is represented by a unique true behaviour derived consumption profile, and a private repository of such true consumption profiles is provided where each profile is anonymous. A repository of consumption objects such as vendors' products and services is also provided. The system correlates parameters of the consumer's true consumption profile with parameters of the consumption object's profiles to find the best matches and presents the consumer's with a list of best to worst matches for a desired products. At all time the consumer's true identity remains confidential, alleviating the privacy concerns of a lot a consumers. | 07-26-2012 |
20120197750 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR RECOMMENDING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES - Exemplary embodiments provide methods, systems and devices for recommending one or more products for a selected individual. The products may be recommended to a user for gifting to the selected individual. Exemplary embodiments may automatically determine one or more topics of interest to the selected individual. In an exemplary embodiment, semantic analysis may be performed on textual content associated with the selected individual to automatically extract the topics of interest. Exemplary embodiments may use the topics of interest to automatically determine one or more products that are likely to be of interest to the selected individual. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197751 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS AND WEIGHTING OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMS - A product recommendation ecosystem is presented. A rules engine seeks to discover one or more relationships among cross-brand product categories based on non-transaction correlations. The rules engine constructs a generic rules-set based on the universal relationships. The rules-set is sent to a recommendation engine, possibly a subscriber to the services offered by the rules engine, and the rules-set configure the recommendation engine to generate one or more cross-brand product recommendations. The recommendation engine customizes the rules-set according to location-specific information possibly comprising consumer parameters, product parameters, vendor parameters, or other local information. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197752 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PUBLISHING DATA ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH AN EVENT - Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically publish data items associated with a news event. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining, using one or more processors, an event of a plurality of events as associated with a heightened user interest, identifying one or more listings from a plurality of listings as matching the event associated with the heightened user interest, and presenting a visual representation of a relationship between the event and the one or more listings such that the one or more listings are displayed as visually related to the event. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203660 | CO-OCCURRENCE SERENDIPITY RECOMMENDER - Methods, devices, and computer-readable media described herein may provide a recommender system that may increase the serendipity associated with a recommendation. The recommender system omits obvious co-occurred items, rare items, and limits a number of co-occurred items associated with an item table. Local and global weighting values may be calculated to derive a co-occurrence weight. The co-occurrence weight may be compared to maximum and minimum threshold co-occurrence values to omit obvious and rare co-occurred items. | 08-09-2012 |
20120215655 | Method for Sorting and Displaying Items in a Virtual Catalog - A computing appliance is provided and includes a processor, an Internet interface, a data store containing virtual catalog items for service through a website, and software executing from a machine-readable physical medium causing the computing appliance to record the number of impressions of each of the items that has occurred over a defined period, record the number of sales of each of items that has occurred over the defined period, calculate the average sales price for each of the items for the defined period, multiply the average sales price by the number of sales calculated previously for each item, divide the total sales figure derived for each item by the total number of impressions calculated for that item over the defined period deriving a revenue contribution value for each item, and in response to a request to display items, serving the items included in the request according to highest revenue contribution value. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221430 | INDIVIDUAL ONLINE PRICE ADJUSTMENTS IN REAL TIME - A method, system and computer program product for adjusting prices for goods and services offered using a computer network. In one embodiment, data relating to goods and services offered over the computer network by a number of entities using the computer network are stored in a database, communications are monitored, using the computer network, to identify an interest of a user, and this interest of the user and the data in the database are used to identify one of the entities to offer a specified product or service to the user. Information is obtained relating to a price for the specified product or service, and this information and the data in the database are used to determine an adjusted price for the specified product or service. In one embodiment, the information the user has about a price for the specified product or service is used to determine the adjusted price. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING A COMPETITIVE COMPARISON OF A RECOMMENDED OR CUSTOM CARD - A system, computer product and method for presenting a competitive comparison of a recommended financial transaction instrument. A set of questions is presented to a consumer in order to determine psychographic characteristics of the consumer. At least one subset of questions is presented based on answers to the set of questions, the at least one subset of questions relating more specifically to available benefits. A tailored financial transaction instrument is recommended having benefits which are based on answers to the at least one subset of questions. At least one similar competitive financial transaction instrument is presented to the consumer. | 08-30-2012 |
20120233014 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE ASSISTED SALES OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - The present invention provides a method and system for an online automotive purchase including receiving a user input for determining and verifying an identity of a user engaging in an online purchase. It includes determining a plurality of characteristics of the user usable for the online purchase and in response to at least one user selection command, determining at least one automobile available for purchase by the user. It includes receiving a plurality of financial information associated with the user for securing the automobile via the online purchase and determining financial terms for the online automotive purchase based on the financial information associated with the user. It further includes presenting the financial terms to the user across and performing a plurality of settlement transactions for fulfillment of the online automotive transaction, as well as notifying the user of the availability for delivery of the automobile. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239523 | Commerce System and Method of Acquiring Product Information to Control Consumer Purchasing - A commerce system has a plurality of retailers offering products for sale. Product information associated with the products is collected by retrieving the product information from a website of the retailer through a consumer computer system and by confirming and updating the product information through electronic communication with the consumers while in a store of the retailer. The product information is stored in a database. A website is provided for consumers to create a shopping list with weighted preferences for product attributes. The shopping list is optimized based on the product information in the database and the weighted preferences for the product attributes. The optimized shopping list is made available to the consumer to assist with purchasing decisions. The purchasing decisions within the commerce system are controlled by enabling the consumers to select the products for purchase based on the optimized shopping list. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239524 | Commerce System and Method of Acquiring Product, Assortment, and Pricing Information to Control Consumer Purchasing - A commerce system has retailers offering products for sale. Product information associated with the products is collected by retrieving the product information from a website of the retailer through a consumer computer system and by confirming and updating the product information, including per unit pricing and price multiples, through electronic communication with the consumers while in a store of the retailer. The product information is stored in a database. A website is provided for consumers to create a shopping list with weighted preferences for product attributes. The shopping list is optimized based on the product information in the database and the weighted preferences for the product attributes. The optimized shopping list is made available to the consumer to assist with purchasing decisions. The purchasing decisions within the commerce system are controlled by enabling the consumers to select the products for purchase based on the optimized shopping list. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246023 | User Access to Item Information - Included is a user device for communicating product information. The user device might include a data storage device and a product identifier input device configured to receive a product identifier. Also included in the user device is logic configured to retrieve at least one user preference, logic configured to retrieve information regarding a product related to the product identifier from a data network, and logic configured to compare the at least one user preference with at least a portion of the information related to the product. | 09-27-2012 |
20120253969 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO TRANSMIT CONSUMER NOTIFICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH PRINTED PUBLICATION RETAIL LOCATIONS - According to some embodiments, a central platform may receive one or more publication preferences associated with a consumer. Based on the publication preferences, the central platform may access a publication database to identify a publication potentially of interest to the consumer. At least one retail location where the identified publication may be currently available can be determined based at least in part on a current location associated with the consumer. A notification message may then be transmitted to a consumer device to indicate the at least one retail location. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253970 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING GAINS TO PROMOTE SALES THROUGH EVALUATION CONTENTS OF GOODS ON WEB SITE - The present invention provides a system and method for sharing profits with beneficiaries designated by a recommender who evaluates goods of an on-line shopping mall or an on-line portal site etc. (hereinafter, an e-trading system), when a purchaser connects to the e-trading platform and buys goods of the e-trading platform through the evaluation contents. The system includes a web server for administrating general purchasing procedures and performing other functions, an information providing arrangement for providing access to information on the goods including a beneficiary identifying code by connecting to the sales web page of the e-trading platform, and a profit sharing server for distributing the profit to the designated beneficiary, when any purchaser buys the goods or services at the web page of the e-trading platform including the beneficiary identifying codes through the recommendation contents. | 10-04-2012 |
20120259729 | DISCOVERY OF BEHAVIOR-BASED ITEM RELATIONSHIPS - Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO PRODUCT RELATED ELECTRONIC CATALOG FUNCTIONALITY - An aggregation of functionality related to a product within an electronic catalog hosted by a wholesaler web system is provided by presenting on a client computing device a webpage in which a single product is directly associated with a single access point. The single access point provides a means by which plural wholesaler web system functions related to the single product are made available to a consumer. A listing of the plural wholesaler web system functions related to the single product is displayed within the webpage in response to an activation of the single access point by the consumer. In response to a selection by the consumer from the displayed listing the wholesaler web system initiates a performance of the one of the plural wholesaler web system functions so selected. | 10-11-2012 |
20120265635 | SOCIAL NETWORK RECOMMENDATION POLLING - The generating of a purchase decision recommendation for a primary user from a plurality of polled users is disclosed. Selections of a plurality of products from the primary user are received, and a selection of the polled users is received. A poll for the purchase decision recommendation is generated, which may include a listing of product entries corresponding to the received selection of the plurality of products. There is a step of transmitting response requests for the poll to the selected polled users. Upon receiving a ballot entry corresponding to a selection of one or more of the product entries in the poll from at least one of the selected polled users, the purchase decision recommendation is generated, based upon an aggregation of the received ballot entries. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265636 | Systems And Methods For Facilitating Electronic Purchase Of A Product - Included are embodiments for facilitating purchase of a product. Some embodiments of a system and/or method include providing a product-user interface that provides data related to a first product that is sold by a first vendor, receiving a user selection of the data related to the first product, and in response to receiving the user selection of the data related to the first product, determining a consumer characterization, the consumer characterization identifying a current state of a consumer. Still some embodiments include determining a second product that corresponds with the current state of the consumer, screen scraping real-time product data related to the second product from a website and provide the real-time product data in the product-user interface, with a purchase option to purchase the second product without navigating to the website. | 10-18-2012 |
20120284145 | ITEM DISCOVERY TOOLS AND METHODS FOR SHOPPING IN AN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ENVIRONMENT - A computer-implemented method includes prompting a first user to select one or more images representing merchandise items, receiving one or more image selections from the first user through the user interface, and determining a shopping preference of the first user based, at least in part, on the image selections. The shopping preference of the first user includes information about the merchandise items represented by the image selections. The method further includes identifying a second user having a shopping preference that is substantially similar to the shopping preference of the first user. The shopping preference of the second user includes information about one or more preferred merchandise items of the second user. The method further includes generating at least one shopping recommendation based on the shopping preference of the second user, and presenting the shopping recommendation to the first user. | 11-08-2012 |
20120290430 | ELECTRONIC CATALOG CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATIONS - Various method and systems concerning electronic calendars are described including receiving user selections of digital assets from different suppliers and/or retailers from one or more electronic catalogs, the digital assets representing different products from the different suppliers and/or retailers; and rendering the selected digital assets of the different products together on a same displayed image. Other methods and systems are described. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290431 | Social Marketplace Affiliate Administration - A method and system are disclosed for managing social commerce within a social media environment. Social commerce activity data corresponding to social commerce storefronts associated with various affiliates is processed to generate social commerce analysis data associated with a merchant's products. The social commerce analysis data is then processed to generate recommendations, which are then provided to the various affiliates. The recommendations are then provided to users of a social media environment to incent additional social commerce activity. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290432 | Social Marketplace Affiliate Front End - A method and system are disclosed for managing social commerce within a social media environment. Social commerce data associated with an affiliate's social commerce storefront is processed to generate user activity data, which corresponds to the interactions of a plurality of users of the social commerce storefront. The user activity data is then processed to generate social commerce analysis data, which comprises search terms used by the plurality of users. In turn, the social commerce analysis data is processed to generate social commerce recommendations, which are then used to incent the users to purchase products available for sale in the affiliate's social commerce storefront. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290433 | Recommendation Widgets for a Social Marketplace - A method and system are disclosed for providing syndicated commerce recommendations. A widget is configured to display a recommendation and is then embedded within a user interface (UI) window. Social data associated with a user is then processed to generate a recommendation object (e.g., a product, an offer, a deal, an advertisement, text, a video, an image, a URI, etc.), which is then displayed within the widget. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290434 | Method For Providing a Recommendation Such as a Personalized Recommendation, Recommender System, and Computer Program Product Comprising a Recommender Computer Program - A recommendation engine of a recommender system provides a mobile device user with a personalized recommendation based on, at least in part, the user's current situation. In some embodiments, the recommender system determines the user's current situation by obtaining information identifying the user's present context(s) (e.g., location context, noise context, time context, etc.). For example, assume the user presently has the location context of “at home” and the noise context of “TV on.” From these contexts, the recommender system can categorize the user as being in the “at home relaxing” situation. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ENHANCED SHOPPING EXPERIENCE - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for creating a virtual shopping area. The method includes receiving a query from a user and an automated input specific to the user from a computing device, generating a list of merchants based on the query and the automated input, generating a virtual shopping area from the list of merchants and based on one or more constraints, and displaying the virtual shopping area on the computing device. One optional step is presenting to the user an interface to purchase query-related items from merchants in the virtual shopping area. The method optionally includes receiving an indication of intent to purchase an item from the user, displaying an image of the item to the user, and dynamically updating the displayed image of the item as the user specifies item-specific details. The list of merchants can be restricted to merchants geographically close to the user. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ALTERNATIVE PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION - A method and system for automatically generating a self-updating naturally-reading narrative product summary including assertions about a selected product. In one embodiment, the system and method includes evaluating an existing narrative product summary, comparing an existing attribute name, attribute value, attribute unit, and assertion model, respectively, to a current attribute name, attribute value, attribute unit, and assertion model to determine if one of the comparisons shows a change. The system and method further determines a new attribute associated with the selected product, selects an alternative product, retrieves a new assertion model with assertions that describe the selected product and identify an alternative product in a natural manner. The system and method then generates a naturally-reading narrative product summary by combining the new attribute with the new retrieved assertion model, and by combining the selected alternative product with another retrieved assertion model to recommend the selected alternative product in the narrative. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303477 | Systems and Methods for Recommending Software Applications - A potentially beneficial software product is recommended to a user based, in part, on an analysis of parameters associated with the user's usage of software applications already installed on the user's computer. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303478 | System for Tracking the Successful Recommendation of a Good or Service - A system for tracking the successful recommendation of a good/service comprising a mobile phone possessed by a receiver, a second mobile phone possessed by a recommender, the mobile phones send and receive communication messages; at least one database; and an intermediary system. The recommender composes a first communication message to the intermediary system including the mobile phone number of the mobile phone, a unique identifier of the recommender and a reference code for a good/service associated with the selected good/service. The intermediary system receives the first communication message; parses the message to identify separate information included therein; creates a new referral record including the unique identifier of the recommender, the mobile phone number of the mobile phone and the reference code for the recommended good/service; composes a recommendation message recommending the recommended good/service and sends the recommendation message to the mobile phone using a phone number having a unique identification. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310769 | GIFT REGISTRY GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - In one embodiment, a graphical user interface presents a gift registry having a number of registered products available to purchase through a retailer. The graphical user interface may present a view of information regarding registered products including an image, a description, and a price associated with each registered product. A recommended product may be presented in relation to a registered product, the recommended product selected as being complementary to the registered product. The recommended product information presented may include a product image, a product description and a product selection control. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310770 | RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - Disclosed embodiments include a recommendation system and apparatus comprising a tendencies based collaborative filtering method. In a particular embodiment, the Tendencies Based Collaborative Filtering Method (TBCFM) is based on the user mean, the item mean, the user tendency calculated using a User Tendency Calculation Method (UTCM); and the item tendency calculated using a Item Tendency Calculation Method (ITCM). | 12-06-2012 |
20120310771 | GENERATION OF PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS USING A DYNAMICALLY SELECTED STRATEGY - Techniques are described for dynamically generating recommendations for users, such as for products and other items. In at least some situations, the techniques include using multiple recommendation strategies, such as by aggregating recommendation results from multiple different recommendation strategies. Such recommendation strategies may have various forms, and may be based at least in part on data regarding prior interactions of numerous users with numerous items. In addition, information about current selections of a particular user may be gathered based at least in part on providing a GUI (“graphical user interface”) for display to the user that includes selectable information about numerous recommended items, and dynamically updating the displayed GUI with newly generated recommendations of items as the user makes selections of particular displayed recommended items (e.g., newly generated recommendations that are similar to the selected items in one or more manners, or are otherwise related to the selected items). | 12-06-2012 |
20120316983 | GIFT CARD INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM AND METHODS - Information sharing enhances the utility and effectiveness of gift-card transactions. A website enables a user to purchase or activate gift cards and compile recipient contact information to establish a gift network of the gift recipients. Information may be entered in relation to the interests or preferences of the gift recipients in the gift network. Product brands, services or merchants may be recommended to the user, and the user may be made aware of events, deals or promotions related to the interests and preferences of potential recipients in the gift network. Users are able to make a more informed choice regarding the purchase or activation of gift cards for recipients in the user's gift network, and manufacturers and merchants are provided with more effective advertising and selling tools. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316984 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTERACTING WITH NETWORKED HOME APPLIANCES - An appliance having a processing device and at least one sensor in communication with the processing device gathers data indicative of usage of a consumable with the appliance. The gathered data is used to determine an amount of the consumable remaining and, when the amount of the consumable remaining is at a predetermined level, a notification is provided to indicate to a user that the consumable needs to be replaced. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316985 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING A DEFAULT SIZE OF A WEARABLE ITEM BASED ON INTERNAL DIMENSIONS - A system for recommending a size of a wearable item implements a method that includes identifying a reference wearable item and a size for the reference wearable item. The system accesses a wearable item database and retrieves a three-dimensional model of the reference wearable item. The system also receives, via a user interface, a functional requirement. The system accesses the wearable item database and identifies set of candidate objects, each of which satisfies the functional requirement. Based on the size of the reference wearable item, the system will determine a size for each of the candidate objects. The system will select at least one of the plurality of candidate objects as a recommended object and presents each recommended object and the size of each recommended object to a user. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316986 | More Improvements in Recommendation Systems - This invention deals with more improvements in recommendation systems. Retailers want to grow their business and increase sales. One embodiment creates upsell by arranging similar items by price. Another embodiment creates similar items by calculating the number of shared attributes. A final embodiment shows how recently viewed items affect cross-sell, similar and personalized recommendations to make more relevant recommendations | 12-13-2012 |
20120323725 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLEMENTING CONTENT-BASED ATTRIBUTES WITH COLLABORATIVE RATING ATTRIBUTES FOR RECOMMENDING OR FILTERING ITEMS - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for supplementing content-based attributes with collaborative rating attributes for recommending or filtering items. Collaborative rating data may be consolidated into “composite critics” which serve as item quality rating attributes. These attributes may be used in conjunction with content-based attributes to generate user preference models. Composite critics may be formed using data clustering methods such that users with similar tastes may be grouped together. The user preference models may be induced using machine learning processes, such as decision trees, artificial neural networks, support vector machines, and/or statistical techniques. In some embodiments, composite critics may represent a small number of users or professional critics selected for having differing sensibilities and who rate most or all items according to those sensibilities. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323726 | F&I MENU SYSTEM - An F&I Menu system for the sale of a product that is financed and which includes multiple options. A display shows the base price of the product without optional items, and a with-options price. Icons representing optional items may be moved between unselected and selected areas. As the icons are moved into or out of the selected area, the with-options price is instantaneously updated, including any price changes resulting from the application of pricing components reflecting the costs of financing or leasing. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323727 | DYNAMIC PRODUCT AND SERVICE BUNDLING - Systems and methods for dynamic product bundling are described herein. For example, embodiments dynamically generate product bundle for customer within a particular segment in view of that customer's interest in a particular product. Embodiments determine customer affinity, customer commonality, and product complementarity and use this information to dynamically generate and optimize product bundles for customers interested in one or more products. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330777 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON LOCALLY GENERATED MODELS - An approach is provided for recommendations based on locally generated models. The model platform causes, at least in part, a transfer of at least one user model from a device to a recommendation service, wherein the at least one user model is generated on the device. Next, the model platform determines to associate the at least one user model with user profile information. Then, the model platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of the at least one user model, the user profile information, or a combination thereof to generate at least one recommendation. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330778 | PRODUCT COMPARISON AND FEATURE DISCOVERY - A method of providing a comparison among offerings includes displaying a tabulation of two or more criteria for two or more offerings. An input is received from a user relating to a first one of the criteria in the tabulation. Based on the input received from the user for the first one of the criteria, the tabulation is modified with respect to one or more criteria other than the first one of the criteria. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330779 | Predicting Purchasing Requirements - Particular embodiments provide functionality for predicting purchasing needs according to multidimensional data. The multidimensional data may define a multidimensional space. The multidimensional space may have at least three dimensions, and each of the dimensions may be capable of providing variable information, and/or having a type that is different from a type of another one of the dimensions. Particular embodiments may retrieve information from data associated with the multidimensional space. Predictions regarding purchasing needs may be generated based on the retrieved information. Purchasing recommendations may then be provided based on the predictions. | 12-27-2012 |
20130006802 | GENERATING A LOCATION-AWARE PREFERENCE AND RESTRICTION-BASED CUSTOMIZED MENU - Location-aware preference and restriction based customized menu may be generated, for example, by obtaining a list of preferences and restrictions, tracking a dietary intake, determining a list of foods available at current location, and generating a list of recommended foods from the current location based on the list of preferences and restrictions, and the tracked dietary intake. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013447 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE BEST SIZE OF PRODUCTS FOR ONLINE AND OFFLINE PURCHASE - An apparel item sizing process for ascertaining best fitting apparel items from a plurality of product offerings, the process includes collecting apparel item details by inputting into an electronic database apparel item details for a plurality of brand manufacturers or retailer. The process further includes the apparel item details of at least one item type, brand name, brand line, pricing, dimensions, color, potential popularity based on reviews, location, and ratings. The process utilizes an computational analysis system to determine a closeness of fit score of one or more apparel items of interest to a reference apparel item utilizing the collected apparel item details. The reference apparel item is an item known to fit a customer based upon prior experience and the closeness of fit score is derived from a formula utilizing at least one critical dimension that is key to the satisfaction of the customer. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013448 | BEHAVIORAL FILTER FOR PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS - This disclosure describes systems and associated methods that can selectively filter seed behavior, e.g., user activity used to generate item recommendations. In some embodiments, seed behaviors and catalog items are associated with categories in an electronic catalog, and a particular seed behavior is used to generate user recommendations if it is more recent than a user's last purchase in the category of the seed behavior. For example, a user's activity in the TV category, e.g., viewing various TV models, may not be used to generate recommendations if the activity occurred prior to the user's purchase of a TV. As a result, in certain embodiments, additional TVs may not appear in the user's recommendations following her purchase, reflecting that the user has fulfilled her desire to purchase a TV. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018755 | Method and System of Recommending ItemsAANM Zhang; WeiAACI HangzhouAACO CNAAGP Zhang; Wei Hangzhou CN - A recommendation system may acquire historic data associated with a user ID. The historic data may include multiple item IDs associated with the user ID. The recommendation system may calculate first multiple correlations between an item ID of the multiple item IDs and other IDs of the multiple item IDs based on the historic data. The first multiple correlations may be used to determine multiple correlated item IDs associated with the item ID. Using the multiple correlated item IDs, the recommendation system may align a user-item scoring matrix to generate an aligned scoring matrix. The aligned scoring matrix may be used to determine a recommended item collection. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024318 | SUPPLEMENTING A TRAINED MODEL USING INCREMENTAL DATA IN MAKING ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS - Incremental training data is used to supplement a trained model to provide personalized recommendations for a user. The personalized recommendations can be made by taking into account the user's behavior, such as, without limitation, the user's short and long term web page interactions, to identify item recommendations. A trained model is generated from training data indicative of the web page interaction data collected from a plurality of users. Incremental training data indicative of other web page interaction data can be used to supplement the trained model, or in place of the trained model. Incremental training data can be indicative of user behavior collected more recently than the data used to train the model, for example. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024319 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO PRODUCT RELATED ELECTRONIC CATALOG FUNCTIONALITY - An aggregation of functionality related to a product within an electronic catalog hosted by a wholesaler web system is provided by presenting on a client computing device a webpage in which a single product is directly associated with a single access point. The single access point provides a means by which plural wholesaler web system functions related to the single product are made available to a consumer. A listing of the plural wholesaler web system functions related to the single product is displayed within the webpage in response to an activation of the single access point by the consumer. In response to a selection by the consumer from the displayed listing the wholesaler web system initiates a performance of the one of the plural wholesaler web system functions so selected. | 01-24-2013 |
20130030949 | COMMUNITY BASED NETWORK SHOPPING - A system receives item data corresponding to an item list from a user. The item list may include one or more items. The system communicates the item list to a community group associated with the user and the system then receives member data from one or more members of the community group, wherein the member data is associated with the one or more items on the item list. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030950 | PROVIDING SOCIAL PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS - Providing social product recommendations is disclosed, including: determining product information of interest to a target user; retrieving a plurality of product reviews associated with the product information of interest, wherein the plurality of product reviews is generated by a plurality of reviewer users; determining evaluation values corresponding to the plurality of product reviews; determining friendship dimension values between the plurality of reviewer users and the target user; and determining a recommendation value for a product associated with the plurality of product reviews based on one or more evaluation values corresponding to the product and weights associated with the one or more evaluation values, wherein the weights are determined based at least in part on friendship dimension values corresponding to those of the plurality of reviewer users associated with those of the plurality of product reviews associated with the product. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAILORING FOOD OR BEVERAGE PRODUCTS TO CONSUMER REQUIREMENTS - A method for tailoring food and/or beverage products to consumer requirements, comprises providing to a target person a set of different food product samples of the same food product category, each product sample having at least two organoleptic properties, and the food product samples differing from each other with regard to at least one organoleptic property, wherein each organoleptic property is present in at least two food product samples; receiving liking values representing a liking for the consumed product samples from the target person, via a first communication interface designed for electronic communication; and computing a target person-specific prioritization ranking as to the organoleptic properties by a computing system, functionally connected to the first communication interface and designed for computing the prioritization ranking, the prioritization ranking being compiled by computing, for each of the organoleptic properties, a liking score for the corresponding organoleptic property. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030952 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ALTERNATIVE PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION - A method and system for automatically generating a naturally reading narrative product summary including assertions about a selected product. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of determining at least one attribute associated with said specific product; selecting an alternative product based on said at least one attribute; and generating a naturally reading narrative including assertions about the specific product and a recommendation of the alternative product. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030953 | Multimedia System for Shopping Process Management - There are problems in retail chains and stores directly affecting the sales volume and business results: —sales items are not visible enough on the store shelves, —other items, matching the ones the customer is looking for, are insufficiently noticed, —there is not enough personalised approach, —customers cannot find adequate items by themselves, —customers have no record of the items bought, especially record of purchases through various retails chains, —customers are reluctant, and—the sales increase potential is not focused on the point of shopping i.e. stores, but rather on Internet sales. Yet, most shopping decisions are made in stores, and not on the Internet. These problems are solved by the multimedia system for shopping process management ( | 01-31-2013 |
20130030954 | Method and apparatus for providing application list - The present disclosure provides a method for providing an application list. The method includes: a mobile terminal records and processes information on a user's usage of third party applications to obtain history data about the third party applications, matches the history data about the third party applications with application information in a database of an application store, forms a third party application selection list from the matched result, and pushes the content of the third party application selection list to a display interface of the application store on the mobile terminal. An apparatus for providing an application list is also provided. The method and the apparatus can push different third party application selection lists to different users, display the third party applications in which users may be interested to indirectly realize user's customization, enable a user to rapidly choose and purchase the third party applications the user like, improve the purchasing and using ratio of various applications in the application store, and ensure Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) of an operator. | 01-31-2013 |
20130036022 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PURCHASED MEDIA - An archiving system is provided for archiving a user's media collection and refining recommendations made to the user by an e-commerce service, such as an e-commerce website, based on the archive of the user's media collection. In general, a central archiving system interacts with a user system to archive a user's media collection. Thereafter, while the user is interacting with the e-commerce service, a list of recommended media for the user is generated and provided to the archiving system. The archiving system refines the list based on the archive of the user's media collection. Optionally, the list of recommended media may be further refined based on a user profile and play history of the user. The refined list of recommended media is returned to the e-commerce service and presented to the user. | 02-07-2013 |
20130041774 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A time storage unit ( | 02-14-2013 |
20130054407 | System and Method for Recommending Items to Users Based on Social Graph Information - A system and machine-implemented method is provided for providing a first user with an item recommendation by referencing a social graph of belongings, including identifying a first belonging of one or more belongings associated with a first user of one or more users of a system, identifying a second user of the one or more users, the user being associated with a second belonging within a social graph of belongings corresponding to the first item, wherein the social graph of belongings defines an association between each of the one or more users and one or more belongings, each of the one or more belongings being specific to a respective user and representing an item, wherein the first belonging corresponds to a first item, identifying a third belonging of the second user, the third belonging corresponding to a second item and recommending the second item to the first user. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054408 | Method, Medium, and System of Presenting Assets Related to Media Content - A method includes sending video content from a server system to a mobile device and receiving first data from the mobile device. The first data includes an identifier of the video content. The method also includes, in response to receiving the first data, identifying the video content based at least in part on the identifier and sending second data to the mobile device regarding an asset. The asset is related to the video content, downloadable at a second device that is distinct from the mobile device, and associated with a subscriber account of the mobile device. The method further includes receiving an indication of a purchase of the asset from the mobile device and in response to receiving the indication, automatically sending a grant message authorizing downloading of the asset by the second device. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFINING TARGET COLOR SPECIFICATIONS - A method in a data processing system, a data processing system, and a computer program in computer useable medium generating a numeric specification for one or more target colors that are useful for selecting colors in which a target lightness (Ltarg), a target hue (Htarg) and a target saturation (Ctarg) are determined based upon user inputs. | 03-07-2013 |
20130066740 | Commerce System and Method of Controlling the Commerce System Using Personalized Shopping List and Trip Planner - Product information associated with products is stored in a database. A website is provided. An interface is provided on the website for generating a shopping list including product attributes. An interface is provided on the website for adding product attributes to the shopping list by searching the product information in the database by product category or keyword phrase. An interface is provided on the website for adding product attributes to the shopping list using natural language descriptions. A list of recommended products is generated based on the product attributes. A price for each of the recommended products between retailers is compared. The purchasing decisions within the commerce system are controlled by generating a shopping option based on the price for each recommended product between retailers. An interface is provided on the website to substitute one of the recommended products with an alternate product. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066741 | Method of Selling Products Over a Network - A method of selling products of a network includes creating at least one product list. The products on the product list are individually presented to a customer. A disposition command is received from the customer for each individually presented product. The products are allocated in a virtual shopping care based upon the received disposition command. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073421 | GIFT GIVING USING A CUSTOM CATALOG OF GIFTS - Gift giving is disclosed, including: receiving a characteristic of an intended gift recipient and a gift amount; and generating a custom catalog of gifts that includes gift items selected based at least in part on the characteristic and the gift amount. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073422 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE - A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar tastes have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue to based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order or rank recommendations within the interface. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080288 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING A CUSTOMER TO ADDITIONAL PURCHASING OPPORTUNITIES - A dynamic merchandising system creates for each of a plurality of products in a plurality of purchase orders a list of products purchased together. This information is then used to create ordered lists reflecting relationships between various product attributes, e.g., the relationships between different brand names purchased together, different product categories purchased together, different catalog pages of products purchased together, etc. From these ordered relationship lists information may be selected and presented to the customer for the purpose of directing the customer to additional purchasing opportunities. | 03-28-2013 |
20130085886 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC APPLICATION RECOMMENDATION - A system and method of automatic suggested application identification includes accessing a profile of a device, wherein the profile represents information specific to the device. From said profile, a determined pattern of use determined by the device is accessed, wherein the determined pattern is unique to the device. The profile including the determined pattern and a geo-specific data of the device and configuration information of the device and applications resident on the device is compared to similar profiles and similar determined patterns of other devices. A suggested application is identified based on said comparing. | 04-04-2013 |
20130091034 | INSTANT, ACCURATE, AND EFFICIENT PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS TO CLIENT ENDPOINT - A method of sending a recommendation to a customer's terminal device includes creating pairs of identifiers based on on-line activities of a group of users. Each pair contains a first and second identifier for items acquired and also acquired by a user. The unique pairings of identifiers are tallied to obtain their counts. The counts are then assigned weights so that the highest counted pairs for each first identifier have equal weight. Unique pairings that contain first identifiers in a list of identifiers derived from a customer's on-line activities are extracted with their counts. The unique second identifiers in the extracted pairings are compiled and the weighted counts are summed to form, based on the summed weighted counts, a list of recommendations. The list is then transmitted, from a computer through a communication network to the customer's terminal device, which presents the list as the recommendation to the customer. | 04-11-2013 |
20130097051 | METHODS FOR AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ADVICE BASED UPON EMOTIONAL MOTIVATORS - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for associating Products with Emotional Qualifiers and Purchasers with Emotional Motivators. The associations may then be used to provide advice on a decision to Purchase or other decision. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097052 | USER INTERFACE AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING ITEMS TO USERS - Improved user interfaces and methods are provided for presenting item recommendations to a user when the user selects an item to add to an electronic shopping cart. In response to the user's selection, a page generation process generates and returns a page that includes a condensed shopping cart portion and a recommendations portion. The condensed shopping cart portion may include a link to an additional page that includes controls for editing the shopping cart and/or includes additional information regarding contents of the shopping cart. The recommendations portion may include multiple recommendations sections that are populated using different respective item selection methods. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097053 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING A COMBINED SERVICE BY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT SITUATION INFORMATION ON A TARGET USER AND THE DEGREE OF COMPLEMENTARITY OF A SERVICE - The present invention relates to a method for recommending a service in a ubiquitous environment in which various services are provided, and more particularly, to a method and system for determining a service required for a user based on situation information of a target user, and recommending, to the target user, an individual service satisfying a service index of the target user with respect to the determined service, or a combined and highly complementary service. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103534 | Passive Sharing - A social networking system leverages information obtained regarding user interactions with applications hosted through the social networking system as well as information obtained regarding purchases of application-related digital items and digital currencies to provide insight into user behavior. The social networking system can use these insights to enhance the user's experience of the applications, purchases, and the social networking system generally. For example, the social networking system can customize transaction flows, provide credit referrals, and provide users with aggregated yet personally tailored sales information. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103535 | RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON AN ADOPTION CURVE - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for recommendations based on adoption curve. A method includes tracking over a period of time user popularity of a media content using a web service residing in a server, the popularity and period of time representing a life cycle of each of the media content. The method tracks over the period of time users enrolled in the web service and when in the period of time each of the users adopted the tracked media content and associates adopted media content with user profiles representing the users. The method recommends media content associated with a first user who adopted the tracked media content earlier in the period of time to a second user who may want to adopt the tracked media content subsequently in the period of time. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103536 | ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS - A system gathers user behavior data from a group of web retailers and/or non-web retailers, analyzes the user behavior data to identify product recommendations for products offered by the web retailers, and provides one of the identified product recommendations in connection with a product page associated with one of the web retailers. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103537 | INTERACTIVE CONSUMER SELF-SERVICE SHOPPING SYSTEM - A system for electronic self-service shopping includes a server and modules for interacting with a shopper's mobile device. The server interacts with a merchant's store system to provide information about products within a store. Alternatively, the server interacts with a merchant enterprise system, which contains information about multiple stores, to provide information about products within a particular store. A virtual shopping cart allows a shopper to select products and then purchase them electronically. After the items in the virtual shopping cart are purchased, the store's security system is notified of the items that have recently been purchased to allow the shopper to exit the store with the items. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103538 | Facilitating Online Transactions - Merchandise content is aggregated from numerous merchant sources and presented on computing devices of individual users. Users are able to purchase select individual merchandise items by performing a simplified action, such as a screen tap on a touchscreen device. When the user performs the action, a series of actions are performed programmatically and/or automatically on behalf of the user to initiate and complete the transaction for the selected merchandise item from the merchant source. | 04-25-2013 |
20130117147 | Similarity and Relatedness of Content - Similarity and relatedness content techniques are described. Responsive to an indication that an item of content is to be made available via an online marketplace, metadata is collected from one or more network services that describes the item of content. Similarity of the item of content with other items of content included in the online marketplace of the network service is calculated based at least in part on the collected metadata. A determination is made as to whether the item of content is related to the other items of content available via the online marketplace based at least in part on the collected metadata, the item of content being related to the other items of content based on membership in a common group. Results of the calculating and the determining are used in making the item of content available via the online marketplace. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117148 | SOCIAL BUSINESS TO BUSINESS MARKETPLACE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A social business to business (B2B) marketplace and method are provided that provides a business to business network marketplace and facilitates social interactions between the participants in the plurality of B2B marketplace. The social business to business (B2B) network marketplace and method provide both public and private marketplaces and social interactions and allows to conduct business by ordering from storefront. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124361 | CONSUMER, RETAILER AND SUPPLIER COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system and method for generating recommendations is disclosed. The system includes first and second client machines, a connection router connected to the first and second client machines, at least one database, and at least one server connected to the connection router and in communication with the at least one database. The method involves generating and providing a list of recommendations. | 05-16-2013 |
20130138530 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING PURCHASING HISTORY DATA TO AUTOMATICALLY CREATE A PURCHASING LIST - Personalized product listing are generated for a user by gathering from a data repository prior product purchasing history of the user and by then analyzing the gathered prior product purchasing history of the user to discern if one or more products have been purchased according to a similar recurrence pattern. The one or more products that have been purchased according to the similar recurrence pattern are then placed within the generated personalized product listing for the user. The generated personalized product listing for the user can be used by the system to facilitate an automatic reordering of quantities of the product according to the recurrence pattern schedule. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138531 | SOCIAL NETWORK-BASED RECOMMENDATION - Embodiments of the invention provide methods and program products for making a recommendation to a purchaser and/or member of a social network. A first aspect of the invention provides a method of making a recommendation to a purchaser, the method comprising: determining a plurality of features of a first product selected by a purchaser; prioritizing the plurality of features of the first product; and making at least one recommendation to the purchaser, the at least one recommendation being selected from a group consisting of: a second product sharing at least one feature of the first product and a social network connection determined to have purchased another product sharing at least one feature of the first product. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138532 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPSELLING TO A USER OF A DIGITAL BOOK LENDING LIBRARY - A method is disclosed where an e-book lending library is provided. The lending library includes data relating to one of license data relating to a plurality of e-books and a plurality of e-books. A request to borrow a first e-book of the plurality of e-books for a predetermined finite period of time is received at the e-book lending library. A current lending status of the first e-book is determined as one of available for lending and unavailable for lending. When it is determined that the first e-book is unavailable for lending, a second signal is transmitted to the user via the communication network, the second signal comprising an offer to sell to the user the first e-book via the e-book lending library. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144749 | SUPPLIER RATING AND REPORTING - Various embodiments of systems and methods for supplier rating and reporting are described herein. A first user interface is provided to a purchaser in response to a selection. The first user interface comprises one or more supplier analysis options. In response to selection of one or more of the options on the first user interface, a supplier rating analysis is generated and displayed using supplier evaluation data provided by a plurality of purchasers and stored in a data source. Based on a purchasing activity, a second user interface is provided to the purchaser. The second user interfaces comprises one or more input fields to capture the evaluation data from the purchaser. The input fields comprise supplier rating-level fields and supplier rating-criteria fields. The evaluation data is received after input by the purchaser. The evaluation data received from the purchaser is stored in the data source. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144750 | CONTENT ON DEMAND EDGE CACHE RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods and systems for providing content and content recommendations are described. Content recommendations for users in a service area may be based on content requests from users within the same service area. Content recommendations over a period of time may dynamically change based on many factors, including: the number of requests for particular content within one or more time frames, the storage location of requested content relative to requesting users, and whether a request occurs within a time period of rapid shift in use and types of content requested. A content recommendation including one or more content recommendations may be provided to users. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144751 | Graphical Display for Recommending Sleep Comfort and Support Systems - A pressure sensor measures the surface pressure distribution of a body supported by a surface, for example a person lying on a mattress. In one approach, a pressure mapping system acquires a customer's pressure map using a reference mattress and presents this pressure data in the form of a pressure map. The pressure map measurement data is then analyzed to determine body characterizing parameters such as body mass index, contact area and average peak pressure. The pressure map measurements are then located on a mattress category grid that has been referenced and aligned to a large population sample of measurements taken with a reference mattress. Alternatively, the pressure map measurements are matched to a physical profile category within a database. Each category provides ranked mattress recommendations based on selection and ranking criteria derived from pressure map data obtained from a large sample of test subjects. In this way, a customer's pressure map can be translated to a recommendation of specific mattresses or mattress categories that are offered by a mattress retailer or manufacturer. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144752 | RECOMMENDATION ASSIST DEVICE, RECOMMENDATION ASSIST SYSTEM, USER DEVICE, RECOMMENDATION ASSIST METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided are a recommendation assist device and the like which enable recommendation of contents suitable for a user. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151368 | Systems and Methods for Recommending Third Party Products and Services - Systems and methods for recommending third party products and services. The method includes the steps of ranking the third party products and services based on one or more factors, and generating a user profile based on one or more user-related factors. Next, the method determined appropriate third party products and services based on the user's geographical location and filters the third party products and services based on the user profile and the user's geographical location. These filtered results are dynamically ranked based on the user profile, and personalization of the third party products and services. Finally, the method provides the ranked results pertinent to the end user's preferences, and the geographical location. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151369 | Systems and Methods for Recommending Third Party Products and Services - Systems and methods for recommending third party products and services. The method includes the steps of ranking the third party products and services based on one or more factors, and generating a user profile based on one or more user-related factors. Next, the method determined appropriate third party products and services based on the user's geographical location and filters the third party products and services based on the user profile and the user's geographical location. These filtered results are dynamically ranked based on the user profile, and personalization of the third party products and services. Finally, the method provides the ranked results pertinent to the end user's preferences, and the geographical location. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151370 | SERVICE FOR ACCEPTING AND SELECTIVELY EXPOSING USER-GENERATED LISTS - An interactive system enables users to generate and submit lists of items (e.g., products selected from an electronic catalog) for viewing by other users. The user-generated lists are selectively suggested to users of the system based (or based in part) on ratings of the user-generated lists. These ratings may, for example, be based on explicit ratings of the lists by users, and/or measures of how effective the respective lists are at driving purchases of items. In some contexts, the system may select one or more user-generated lists to present to a user based on a set of items purchased, viewed, or otherwise selected by the user, or based on the results of a search query submitted by the user. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159132 | Targeting Items to a User of a Social Networking System Based on a Predicted Event for the User - A social networking system predicts a life event (e.g., birthday, change in marital status, relationship status, etc.) for a target user based on information associated with the user. The social networking system identifies gift suggestions to provide to one or more friends of the user based on the predicted event. A gift suggestion may include an invitation to purchase or send an item, voucher, or other gift to the target user, wherein the gift may be determined based on information about the target user's interests obtained by the social networking system. The social networking system sends a gift suggestion to one or more friends of the target user, where the gift suggestion identifies the predicted life event and provides the gift suggestion to the target user's friend. The advertisement may require action by multiple of the target user's friends before the gift is sent to the target user. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159133 | CONSUMABLE COMPONENT SALES SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC STORE PROVIDING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A consumable component sales system of the invention is a consumable component sales system that sells, at an electronic store, a plurality of consumable components to be periodically replaced, among a number of components constituting a machine. The consumable component sales system includes an electronic store providing device that provides an electronic store through a communication line to a customer terminal used by a customer. The electronic store providing device includes a correlation value data receiving unit, a time-for-replacement estimating unit, a recommended replacement component specifying unit, a sales page generating unit, and a web page transmitting unit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159134 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO RECOMMEND APPLICATIONS FROM AN APPLICATION MARKET PLACE TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - a method and system are provided for populating an electronic device registered for a user with applications from an application platform that the electronic device is operating with. The method is carried out by an application recommendation node. The method includes the acts of collecting a user profile for the user and an identifier for the electronic device, selecting a list of applications from the application platform based on the user profile, associating the list of applications with the identifier, receiving notification of a first presentation of the identifier following the association, and pushing the list of applications to the electronic device corresponding to the identifier following the notification. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166406 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING USER RECOMMENDATIONS - The present invention creates a new taxonomy called Reader Categories that incorporates a bookseller's bookselling knowledge to generate more accurate and compelling recommendations to users. An initial “seeding” of the Reader Categories with content is performed by an editorial staff. A recommendation engine is then executed with respect to the initial seeds to generate recommendation of additional content for the Categories. A tool is provided that the editorial staff can use for the seeding and for providing feedback on the quality of algorithmically generated results. This helps the present invention extend the power of its recommendation algorithms by facilitating editorial ranking and seeding. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166407 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR MANAGING INFORMATION - A computer-implemented method for managing information used to control the serving of a set of one or more user content media components is provided. The information includes an array of links between user provided content over which the set of array of user provided content may be served. The links between user provided content is specified by a first user input and an accepted second user input. The system tracks a requester to a matcher and is formulated to assign points to the matcher for making a successful match for the requester. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166408 | VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEM INCLUDING SMART OBJECTS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media that may be used to generate a virtual reality simulation of a shopping environment are provided. One method includes generating one or more smart objects from a set of simulation data describing the shopping environment. The method further includes generating the virtual reality simulation that includes the one or more smart objects and presenting the virtual reality simulation to the simulation participant on a virtual reality display platform. The virtual reality display platform includes one or more touch screen display devices. The method further includes, each time the participant touches the one or more touch screen display devices on an area in which one of the smart objects is displayed, generating a touching record indicating that the participant touched the respective one of the smart objects. The method further includes storing each generated touching record in a memory. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173416 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING TRANSACTIONS IN A DIGITAL MARKETPLACE - In various example embodiments, a system and method for managing transaction in a digital marketplace are provided. In example embodiments, a transaction request involving a digital good is received. A determination as to whether the transaction involves a purchase of the digital good is performed. Based on the transaction involving the purchase of the digital good, a further determination as to whether an overlap in inventory or a related item involving the digital good exists is performed. Based on the overlap in inventory existing, a sub-collection of the inventory is created with which to complete the transaction request. Based on existence of the related item, a combination package including the digital good and the related item is created and offered in response to the transaction request. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173417 | UTILIZING EMPTY SHIPPING CONTAINER SPACE AS A SELLING OPPORTUNITY - Embodiments of the invention may provide the ability to leverage product dimensions and weight to offer promotional items that will fit in the box that is already required to ship customer-selected items. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173418 | Systems and Methods for Recommending Third Party Products and Services - Systems and methods for recommending third party products and services. The method includes the steps of ranking the third party products and services based on one or more factors, and generating a user profile based on one or more user-related factors. Next, the method determined appropriate third party products and services based on the user's geographical location and filters the third party products and services based on the user profile and the user's geographical location. These filtered results are dynamically ranked based on the user profile, and personalization of the third party products and services. Finally, the method provides the ranked results pertinent to the end user's preferences, and the geographical location. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173419 | RECOMMENDING REPEATED TRANSACTIONS - A computer implemented web-based system and computer implemented web-based method is disclosed for recording, repeated transactions of objects or groups of objects by subjects, utilizing the duration between transactions to predict the next transaction time of an object by a subject, and recommending the object to the subject based on the predicted next transaction time. The system can also classify object according to their replenishment behavior and make product recommendations based on the class of objects a subject shows interest in. Objects include movies, books, songs, commercial products, news articles, advertisements or any other type of content or physical item. The system has application in personalization, behavioral targeting, Internet retailing, and interactive radio, to name but a few applications. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173420 | IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing method includes partitioning an image under test to form a plurality of contiguous image segments having similar image properties, deriving feature data from a subset including one or more of the image segments, and comparing the feature data from the subset of image segments with feature data derived from respective image segments of one or more other images so as to detect a similarity between the image under test and the one or more other images. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179298 | WEB SITE PROVIDING COSMETIC AND NUTRITION REGIMEN FROM COLOR IMAGES - A cosmetic regimen and/or a nutrition regimen is outputted almost instantly to a user who transmits a digital color image, preferably video, of the surface tissue, for example at the face of a human to a web site. The regimen is custom tailored to the surface tissue type of the subject. The surface tissue type is based on value ranges of multiple surface tissue bioparameters, such as surface tissue moisture, surface tissue collagen levels, surface tissue pH and surface tissue sun sensitivity. The system may track changes in the surface tissue parameters between one digital color image provided by a user at one time and a further digital color image provided later. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185170 | GIFT RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - Embodiments for recommending gifts to users for their gift recipients over a network are described. The gift recommendation system may retrieve gender and age information of a gift recipient, for example, via a graphical user interface, and then may automatically present to the user a list of predetermined number of gift categories selected based on the gender and age information of the gift recipient. Once a gift category is selected from the presented list of predetermined amount of gift categories, the gift recommendation system may automatically present to the user a list of gift items belonging to the respective selected gift categories. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191241 | SUBJECT MATTER INTELLIGENCE FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - Heuristics may be built into retail and business applications that recognize certain conditions and provide “expert-level” suggestions for the purchaser to consider. The inputs from the purchaser may include a selection of an item for potential purchasing. After selecting an item, heuristics may be used to determine that the item is also available as part of a set, which may include additional items that were meant to be used together, often at a discount. Also, heuristics may determine that a selected item has an expiration date, and make a recommendation for a same or functionally comparable product when near the expected end of the product's lifetime. Additionally, heuristics may be used to determine that a customer belongs to a certain customer type based on a selected item, and that customers of that type may be associated with additional items that may be offered to the consumer. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191242 | Fit Recommendations - Disclosed are various embodiments for fit recommending. For example, in some embodiments, a method includes a step of inputting a user item fit corresponding to a user item and target item from a user. The method further includes the step of drawing, using a computing resource, a chain of at least one correlation between the user item fit and a target item fit corresponding to the target item. Further, the method includes the step of generating, using the computing resource, a fit recommendation for the user regarding the target item comprising the target item fit. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198029 | APPLICATION RECOMMENDATION AND SUBSTITUTION - Methods and systems for application recommendation and substitution are provided herein. The method includes analyzing data within a platform of a computing device to determine a pattern of the data. The method also includes acquiring a list of applications from a marketplace service, wherein the applications are compatible with the pattern of the data. The method further includes activating an application within the platform, wherein the application is selected in response to an input by a user from the list of applications. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198030 | RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ITEMS VIEWED DURING A CURRENT BROWSING SESSION - Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204737 | LEVERAGING STORE ACTIVITY FOR RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods for providing product recommendations to a customer are described. One embodiment includes receiving a request for a product recommendation for a customer, and generating the product recommendation based on a purchase history for the customer. In some embodiments, the purchase history includes data associated with in-store purchases from one or more brick and mortar stores and data associated with online purchases from one or more online stores. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204738 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING ENTITIES TO ONLINE CUSTOMERS - System and methods for recommending entities (e.g., products, documents, movies, persons, etc.) to online customers are provided. A centroid definition module generates a plurality of centroids that at least partially describe one or more users based on documents consumed by the respective users of the one or more users and node data assigned to the respective documents within a node space. A centroid assignment module projects user data describing each of the one or more users in the node space, calculates user-centroid membership values, and assigns the respective users to a certain centroid based on a highest membership value of the respective users. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204739 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GIFTING SUGGESTIONS AND PSYCHOGRAPHIC PROFILING - A computer-implemented method for electronic gift giving in which a gift suggestion is made, optionally based in part on a psychographic profile of a recipient. The method may be implemented by a website accessible on the Internet. A computer-implemented method is also described for generating a psychographic profile of an individual. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204740 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR STIMULATING A USER TO RECOMMEND AN ITEM TO A CONTACT OF THE USER - The present invention is related to a recommender system ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130211950 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for recommending items from a catalog of items to a user by parsing the catalog of items into a plurality of catalog clusters of related items and recommending catalog items to the user from catalog clusters to which items previously preferred by the user belong. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211951 | SELF LEARNING GIFT RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for operating a self learning gift recommendation engine in an electronic medium to facilitate the selection of gifts by a gift shopper for a prospective gift receiver. In one example, a method comprises presenting the gift shopper with at least one question from a questions repository through an interface of an electronic device, receiving a response from the gift shopper to the at least one question, presenting the gift shopper with a recommendation for at least one gift, receiving an indication from the gift shopper of the desirability of the at least one gift, analyzing data regarding the at least one question presented, the response received, and the indication received to asses one of the effectiveness and the efficiency of the at least one question presented in facilitating the selection of the gift, and recording an indication of the assessment in a knowledge repository. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211952 | BUSINESS SALES PROMOTION SERVER, BUSINESS SALES PROMOTION METHOD, AND BUSINESS SALES PROMOTION PROGRAM - A business sales promotion server analyzes information on the type of electric appliance connected with a network in order to recommend a sales representative to sell electric appliances. The business sales promotion server stores electric appliance configuration in relation to a local network, the electric appliance configuration including model related information acquired from an electric appliance communicatively connected with the local network, outputs information on an electric appliance being lacking in one local network to the sales representative terminal based on the electric appliance configuration, and then recommends the sale of the electric appliance. | 08-15-2013 |
20130218713 | Method for Providing Information and Recommendations Based on User Activity - A method for providing recommendations to a user based on user activity. A plurality of activity data tracking a plurality of activities of a user is obtained. The activity data may be obtained over a wide area network such as the internet or downloaded from a data card which stores activity data whenever the user participates in an activity. The activity data is either stored on the data card or transmitted over the network whenever the user uses a card when participating in any activity such as when making a purchase of goods, paying for services, watching television, etc. The activity data is processed to identify a plurality of user patterns. The user patterns are used to form a user profile and may include user habit data. Recommendations specific to the user based on the user patterns are then created for and provided to the user. The recommendations are provided to a user when the user logs onto a computer network such as the internet. The recommendations may also be provided by electronic mail, electronic pager or other methods. The recommendations are provided by various data analysis techniques including rule based inference engines and other forms of artificial intelligence. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218714 | Apparatus, Article of Manufacture, and Methods for Recommending a Jewelry Item - Apparatus, article of manufacture and methods for recommending a jewelry item that comprise receiving, at a jewelry interface, user-input data regarding: a selection of at least one jewelry item. The at least one jewelry item comprises a plurality of characteristics. User-input data also includes an indication of a level of importance for at least one characteristic of a jewelry item. Each level of importance corresponds to a co-efficient. An ideal profile is computed based in part on the selection of the at least one jewelry item and the indication of the level of importance, an ideal profile. A matching algorithm is applied to a plurality of jewelry items stored in an inventory. Based on the matching algorithm, at least one recommended jewelry item is identified as most closely matching the ideal profile. An indication of the at least one recommended jewelry item is transmitted. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218715 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITEM LIST CREATION AND COMMUNICATION - A system receives item data describing one or more items added to an item list by a user. The item list may include one or more items. The system communicates the item list to a group of additional users designated by the user and the system then receives member data from one or more members of the group of additional user, wherein the member data is about the one or more items in the item list. The item list is then updated based on the received member data. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226729 | SimpleNutrition Nutritional Management System - A nutritional management system which comprises a processor, a memory, a first data store comprising a list of products, universal product codes associated with the products, and nutritional information associated with the products, a second data store comprising a physiological information profile for each of a plurality of different loyalty card users, an application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor the application accesses the second data store to read the physiological information profile of a loyalty card user, analyzes the physiological information profile based on objective nutritional guidelines set forth for physiological characteristics disclosed in the physiological information profile, searches the first data store to find products that satisfy the objective nutritional guidelines, transmits the products, receives a selection of one or more of the products, and promotes generating a personalized shopping list comprising selected products that is based on the physiological information profile. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226730 | GIFT REGISTRY GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - In one embodiment, a graphical user interface presents a gift registry having a number of registered products available to purchase through a retailer. The graphical user interface may present a view of information regarding registered products including an image, a description, and a price associated with each registered product. A recommended product may be presented in relation to a registered product, the recommended product selected as being complementary to the registered product. The recommended product information presented may include a product image, a product description and a product selection control. | 08-29-2013 |
20130232027 | Fleet Purchase Planner - A system and method for generating a vehicle fleet configuration for purchase, replacement, and/or deployment of vehicles include an input device configured to receive user input indicative of a number of vehicles to purchase and at least one fleet operational parameter target. A computer in communication with the input device and a database having emissions and fuel economy information for a plurality of available vehicle models and associated powertrain configurations is configured to generate a recommended number of vehicles for each of the available vehicle models with associated powertrain configurations to satisfy the number of vehicles to purchase, wherein the operational parameters associated with the number of vehicles satisfy at least one fleet operational parameter target, which may include one of minimizing cost or minimizing emissions, for example. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232028 | UTILIZING EMPTY SHIPPING CONTAINER SPACE AS A SELLING OPPORTUNITY - Embodiments of the invention may provide the ability to leverage product dimensions and weight to offer promotional items that will fit in the box that is already required to ship customer-selected items. | 09-05-2013 |
20130246215 | Multi-Source, Multi-Dimensional, Cross-Entity, Multimedia Merchant Analytics Database Platform Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The MULTI-SOURCE, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, CROSS-ENTITY, MULTIMEDIA MERCHANT ANALYTICS DATABASE PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“MDB”) transform data aggregated from various computer resources using MDB components into updated entity profiles and/or social graphs. In one implementation, the MDB aggregates data records including search results, purchase transaction data, service usage data, service enrollment data, and social data. The MDB identifies data field types within the data records and their associated data values. From the data field types and their associated data values, the MDB identifies an entity. The MDB generates correlations of the entity to other entities identifiable from the data field types and their associated data values. The MDB also associates attributes to the entity by drawing inferences related to the entity from the data field types and their associated data values. Using the generated correlations and associated attributes, the MDB generates an updated profile and social graph of the entity. The MDB provides the updated profile and social graph for an automated web form filling request. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246216 | Systems and Methods for Tailoring Marketing - The systems and methods described herein may be used to recommend an item to a consumer. The methods may comprise determining, based on a collaborative filtering algorithm, a consumer relevance value associated with an item, and transmitting, based on the consumer relevance value, information associated with the item to a consumer. A collaborative filtering algorithm may receive as an input at least one of: a transaction history associated with the consumer, a demographic of the consumer, a consumer profile, a type of transaction account, a transaction account associated with the consumer, a period of time that the consumer has held a transaction account, a size of wallet, a share of wallet, and/or the like. The method may further comprise generating a ranked list of items based upon a plurality of consumer relevance values, transmitting a ranked list of items to a consumer, and/or re-ranking a ranked list of items based upon a merchant goal. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246217 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING CONTRACT ANALYTICS - Some examples provide systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing a market platform. The market platform may operate to inform buyers and suppliers, to allow buyers and suppliers to select products and contracting parameters to meet their needs, to allow buyers and suppliers to commit to supply agreements, and to enforce those supply agreements. The market platform may be further configured to capture data related to transactions performed by buyers and suppliers that use the market platform system to perform said transactions. This data may be utilized to generate a set of analytics to assist both buyers and suppliers with making informed decisions about their transactions. The market platform may identify correlations between buyer characteristics and product selections, to assist the buyer with selecting products that are generally appropriate for their particular characteristics and/or needs. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254065 | PLAY HISTORY BASED DETECTION OF SIMILAR DIGITAL WORKS OR WORK CREATORS - A computer-implemented service recommends digital works (and/or creators of works) to a user based on works currently or previously played or downloaded by the user on a player device or based on playlists stored on the player device. The works may be, for example, music files, video files, electronic books, or other digital content for playing by users. A user may thus obtain personalized recommendations that are based on works obtained from sources (web sites, physical CDs, etc.) that are independent of the recommendations system. In one embodiment, the service identifies pairs of works (and/or work creators) that are similar to each other by virtue of the relatively high frequency with which they co-occur on playlists or within play histories of users. The resulting mappings are used to provide recommendations to users. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262262 | Consumer Alerts from a Readable Code - Systems and methods are provided for consumer alerts from a readable code according to one or more embodiments. According to an embodiment, a method comprises receiving, electronically by a processor of a service provider, information about a product included in a readable code, wherein the information is received from a reading of the code from a user device. The method also comprises receiving, by the processor, information about a user. The method also comprises determining positive or negative criteria or preferences of the user. And the method further comprises providing, to the user device, an alert about the product based on the positive or negative criteria or preferences of the user. | 10-03-2013 |
20130268391 | SMART GIFT LIST - A service provider communicates, to a user device, a reminder and suggestions to a user for possible gift purchases for a recipient, based on recipient purchase history, restrictions set by the user for the recipient, preferences set by the user for the recipient/gift, the occasion for the gift, and/or other factors. The user can select one or more recommended gifts from the user device and make the purchase through the user device. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268392 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS - Product recommendations are presented to a consumer by presenting to the consumer a plurality of thumbnail images that correspond to a plurality of products. The plurality of thumbnail images are presented to the consumer in a plurality of tier groupings and each of the plurality of tier groupings is indicative of a relative ranking of products within a trend that is being tracked. In response to a user interacting with a one or more of the plurality of presented thumbnail images, the consumer is further presented with at least one of a zoomed-in version of the one or more of the plurality of presented thumbnail images interacted with by the consumer and a product detail page for a product corresponding to the one or more of the plurality of presented thumbnail images interacted with by the consumer. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268393 | Third-Party Recommendation in Game System - A computer-implemented method for using a third-party recommendation in a game system includes: receiving, at a recommendation engine and from a game system, current game context data provided in real time during a game in which at least one user participates; selecting, by the recommendation engine, at least one of multiple predefined actions based on at least the current game context data; and providing a response to the game system that identifies the selected at least one action for performance. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268394 | DYNAMIC RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES - Disclosed are electronic systems and techniques for implementing dynamic recommendations based on psychological types. A dynamic association component can associate recommendation features employed in a network site, such as a web portal, with respective psychological types based on a set of usage data for the web portal and/or the recommendation features. A dynamic feature provisioning component can determine a psychological type corresponding to a user, and provide recommendation features associated with the psychological type to the user during interaction with the web portal. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268395 | AUTOMATED PRODUCT SELECTION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - An automated method and system for selection and distribution of products include maintaining a database containing product information for a plurality of products; receiving user profile data for at least one user; selecting at least one recommended product from the plurality of products; and generating a personalized report regarding the at least one recommended product directed to the at least one user. The method and system also include improving the selection accuracy by updating user profile data and/or product information based on a completed product survey by the at least one user. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268396 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED APPLICATION RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and system for providing personalized application recommendations to users of electronic devices. Contextual information is used to build a personalized user knowledge base. The information stored in the personalized user knowledge base may be used to locate applications that may be of interest to the user. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268397 | GENERATING APPLICATION RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON USER INSTALLED APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving an application installation log, the application installation log including per-user installation data indicating when each of a plurality of applications available through an application marketplace was installed on a plurality of computing devices, determining an overall score corresponding to a first application and a second application, the score indicating a degree of overlap in installation periods of the first application and the second application on the plurality of computing devices, determining that the overall score is greater than or equal to a threshold score, generating an index, the index associating the second application as an application of interest in view of the first application, and storing the index in computer-readable memory. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268398 | METHOD OF PLACING AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method for selecting an absorbent article wherein the method includes collecting input information from an individual via a computing device regarding absorbent article use during the individual's menstrual cycle wherein at least some of the information collected includes data generally known by most consumers. The method further includes correlating the input information to prior data collected from the individual and recommending the next immediate absorbent article for the individual based on the correlations from the input data and prior data. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268399 | FIT RECOMMENDATION VIA COLLABORATIVE INFERENCE - Some embodiments of the invention provide techniques for recommending a size of a subject item to fit a subject consumer. In some embodiments, clusters of consumers with fit characteristics similar to the subject consumer are identified, using one or more data clustering algorithms, based on any of numerous consumer attributes (e.g., self-reported and/or inferred height, weight, body shape, body characteristics, and/or purchase histories (e.g., consumers with high overlap in terms of sets of products purchased)). Information on other consumers in the cluster may be analyzed to draw conclusions on how different sizes of the subject item may fit the subject consumer. For example, the purchase history of other members of the cluster may be analyzed to determine whether other members purchased a particular size of the item, and if so, the size purchased by the other members may serve as a basis to recommend a size that may best fit the consumer. For example, if other members of the cluster purchased a particular size, then that size may be recommended to the subject consumer, or if other members of the cluster purchased and then returned a particular size (e.g., for being too small), then another (e.g., larger) size may be recommended to the subject consumer. | 10-10-2013 |
20130275259 | Authoring and Retrieving Customized Product Content for Online Product Stores - A method stores in a persistence layer a plurality of rules specifying an association between personalized information about potential visitors to an online product store and products of the online product store, obtains personalized information about an actual visitor to the online product store, and executes the rules by a computer, thereby selecting products of the online store based upon the personalized information about the actual visitor. The method further displays information about the selected products of the online store to the actual visitor. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275260 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to an aspect, a mobile electronic device includes: a display unit; a storage unit for storing therein log information indicating a usage pattern of a first application; and a control unit for displaying information related to a second application on the display unit at a timing determined based on usage characteristic of the first application. The usage characteristic is analyzed based on the log information and includes a characteristic related to a timing of usage. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282516 | SCRAPING RESISTANT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACING ORDERS THROUGH AN INTERNET SHOPPING SERVICE - A third-party server exposes a first set of data from a content based website. Access to a second set of data requires that a token be assigned to a specific web browser and corresponding to a specific subset of protected data, the token containing no information that can be used to gain access to other protected data. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282517 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Electronic Purchases - An electronic shopping cart may reference multiple items from different merchants. Any merchant may inspect the electronic shopping cart and make counteroffers to a purchaser. If the purchaser approves one of the counteroffers, then an item in the electronic shopping cart is replaced with a substitute item offered by a different merchant. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282518 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND CONTROLLER FOR PROVIDING GOODS AND/OR SERVICES TO CONSUMERS - Method, system, and a controller are provided for a selection service recommending or providing access to goods or service items to a consumer. A set of available items is identified, at least some of which require payment to item-providers for access. A measure of likely enjoyment of each available item by the consumer is predicted, and a measure of value for money of each available item for the consumer is calculated. Access to items is provided to the consumer that will represent good value for money. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282519 | RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM WITH USER INTERFACE FOR EXPOSING DOWNSTREAM EFFECTS OF PARICULAR RATING ACTIONS - An interactive system generates personalized item recommendations for users based partly or wholly on ratings assigned by the users to particular items. The system includes an item rating user interface that enables a user to view, prior to rating an item, information regarding the types of items that will be recommended to the user if the user assigns a particular rating or type of rating to the item. The user interface thereby enables users to refrain from performing rating actions that will tend to result in low utility or “poor quality” recommendations from the users' perspectives. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290130 | TEMPERATURE-BASED DETERMINATION OF BUSINESS OBJECTS - Determining business objects is disclosed, including: receiving an access request from a client device; determining a set of relevant business objects based at least in part on information included in the access request; determining a location associated with the client device; determining temperature information associated with the location; and selecting at least a subset of business objects from the set of relevant business objects based at least in part on the temperature information. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290131 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR ENABLING CUSTOMIZED RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and arrangement for enabling creation of customized recommendations of items for persons ( | 10-31-2013 |
20130297446 | ONLINE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE MODIFICATION - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for providing a modified online shopping experience to users. The modified online shopping experience presents offers to a user when the user is viewing a merchant online. The offers may be specifically tailored to the interests of the user viewing the merchant online. In this way, the system determines offers that the user may be interested in based on merchant data and financial institution data associated with the user. The tailored offers may be based on merchant data, such as previously accepted offers, loyalty accounts or the like and/or financial institution data such as products purchased, transaction history, and the like. The tailored offers that match the interest of a user may then be presented on the interface, website, or the like that the user is viewing when viewing a merchant online. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297447 | RECOMMENDED CONTENT PROVIDING APPARATUS, RECOMMENDED CONTENT PROVIDING PROGRAM AND RECOMMENDED CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD - A recommended content providing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain information on display of a plurality of recommended content items; a short-term impression judging unit configured to obtain impression duration of a viewing content item viewed by a user; and a recommended content determining unit configured to modify the information on display of one of the recommended content items which belongs to a same content category as a content category to which the viewing content item belongs, based on the impression duration of the viewing content item. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304607 | E-Commerce Personalization and Merchandising - Systems and methods for e-commerce personalization and merchandising are provided herein. In some instances, methods may include determining triggers for a consumer, where the triggers being associated with objective consumer preferences and subjective consumer preferences for the consumer. Also, the method includes selecting a ranking cocktail for the consumer that includes a plurality of attributes that each includes a weight. The method also includes utilizing the ranking cocktail to select recommended products from an inventory of products in a database of a merchant, and providing the recommended products for display to the consumer. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304608 | CONTEXT-INFLUENCED APPLICATION RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for recommending content based on context such as location. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data that references a location of a mobile device, selecting, from among multiple, different applications that are available in an online application marketplace, one or more of the applications that are relevant to the location, and providing, by a recommendation server, a recommendation to the mobile device, where the recommendation identifies the one or more applications as applications that the user is likely to be interested in purchasing or downloading. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311322 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED PRODUCT OR SERVICE RECOMMENDATIONS TO TRAVELERS - Computer-implemented methods and systems are disclosed for providing customized product or service recommendations to a traveler in connection with a stay at a room provided by a lodging service. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311323 | Pre-Establishing Purchasing Intent for Computer Based Commerce Systems - In accordance with some implementations, a method for using recommendations to fulfill pre-established purchasing intent is disclosed. The method is performed on a server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The server system receives a recommendation for a product or service from a first user and determines whether a second user has pre-indicated intent to purchase a product or service in a category of product or service that includes the recommended product or service. The server system then purchases the recommended product on behalf of the user without further input from the user. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311324 | Zero Click Commerce Systems - In accordance with some implementations, a method for enabling clickless purchasing is disclosed. The method is performed on a server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The server system detects commercial intent from a user of the computer system. In response to detecting commercial intent, the server system determines a product relevant to the detected commercial intent of a user. The server system sends a recommendation message to the user, wherein the recommendation message includes an option to purchase the product. The server system then receives a response message from the user, the message including authorization from the user to purchase the recommended product. The server system then purchases the recommended product on behalf of the user and delivers the purchased product to the user. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311325 | IDENTIFYING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES BASED ON A BUDGET - A system, a method, a server, a computer processing platform, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for enabling the identifying of products and services on-line based on a user budget. A financial budget is generated based on personal financial information provided by a user. Search criteria are generated based on the budget and product/service criteria provided by the user. A search engine is accessed to initiate an on-line search using the generated search criteria. Returned search results are processed to generate purchase recommendations for the user based on the budget and the product/service criteria. The purchase recommendations are sent to the user where the user may make a purchase request based on the recommendations. The purchase of a product or service may be facilitated in response to the purchase request and the budget may be updated based on the purchase. | 11-21-2013 |
20130317937 | RELATIONSHIP DISCOVERY ENGINE - A system, method, and computer program product discover relationships among items and recommend items based on the discovered relationships. The recommendations provided by the present invention are based on user profiles that take into account actual preferences of users, without requiring users to complete questionnaires. An improved binomial log likelihood ratio analysis technique is applied, to reduce adverse effects of overstatement of coincidence and predominance of best sellers. The invention may be used, for example, to generate track lists for a personalized radio station. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325651 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION - A method and system for generating recommendations is provided. The method includes accepting queries and revised assumptions associated with shopping habits of a shopper. Responses to the queries are generated. The responses are associated with product features for products. A group of shoppers and associated interests are characterized resulting in a creation of a group of recommended products. Alternative products associated with the recommended products are determined based on the revised assumptions and a consistency of assumptions is managed. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325652 | Commerce System and Method of Recommending Product for Consumer Based on Preferred Products of Other Consumers - A commerce system has retailers offering products for sale. Product information is collected associated with a plurality of products. A first shopping list is generated for a first consumer based on the product information. A second shopping list is generated for a second consumer based on the product information. A product preferred by the first consumer is selected as a product recommendation to the second consumer based on similarities of product preferences, characteristics, or demographics between the first consumer and second consumer. The product recommendation can also be based on popularity of the preferred product. The product recommendation is made available to the second consumer on the second shopping list or by wireless communication device. A discount for the product recommendation is offered to the second consumer. A purchasing decision within the commerce system is controlled by enabling the second consumer to select the product recommendation for purchase. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325653 | Commerce System and Method of Providing Personalized Marketing Presentation with Products of Interest for Consumer - A commerce system has retailers offering products for sale to consumers. Product information is collected associated with a plurality of products. Products of interest are presented to a first consumer based on the product information. The products of interest are selected based on a prior product selection by the first consumer, product selections by a second consumer, or retailer promoted products. The products of interest include comparative product information from a plurality of retailers. A shopping list is generated including one or more selected products of interest as determined by the first consumer. The shopping list including the selected products of interest is made available to the first consumer to assist with a purchasing decision. The purchasing decision within the commerce system is controlled by enabling the first consumer to select products for purchase based on the shopping list including the selected products of interest. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325654 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING AND RANKING WEB-ACCESSIBLE DATA TARGETS - A method of locating a relevant product belonging to a category of related products sharing pre-determined product attributes is provided. Some related products within the category of related products are located, the located related products having the pre-determined product attributes, the product attributes having associated content. A filtered set of related products is created. For each product attribute, the content associated with the product attribute in one of the filtered set of related products is compared against content associated with the product attribute in each of the other located products and a relative score is assigned based upon the comparison. The shared set of product attributes is prioritized based in part upon relevance of a product attribute to user profile data and the filtered set of related products is ranked based upon the prioritizing and the score of content associated with the product attributes. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325655 | DETERMINING A PROFILE FOR A RECOMMENDATION ENGINE BASED ON GROUP INTERACTION DYNAMICS - A technique includes using a processor-based machine to determine a dynamic interaction characteristic of a group of users. The technique further includes, based at least in part on the determined dynamic interaction characteristic, determining a profile of the group for a recommendation engine. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332305 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING REVIEW SCORES FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS AND SERVICES - The present invention discloses a system and method for generating and displaying review scores. The method includes obtaining product information of a consumer electronics product. The product information includes at least one metric. Further, the method includes utilizing the at least one metric to generate a consumer review score of the consumer electronics product. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332306 | HVAC CONTROLLER WITH INSTALLER RATING FEATURE - An energy management network is provided, comprising: at least one thermostat controller operable to control HVAC equipment on a premise, the at least one thermostat controller being installed by a installer; an environmental web service, operable to communicate with the at least one thermostat controller across a network and provide a registered user with remote portal access and control to the at least one thermostat controller; and wherein the environmental web service is operable to query the registered user through one of the remote portal access and the thermostat controller to rate the installation experience provided by the associated installer of their at least one thermostat controller, and receive installation experience data from the registered user. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332307 | METHOD FOR NOTIFYING A SENDER OF A GIFTING EVENT - One variation of the method includes: within a set of communications from a set of users and directed to a recipient within a social networking system, identifying indicators of a gift-appropriate event of the recipient; selecting a gift for the recipient in response to a threshold number of communications with an identified indicator of the gift-appropriate event; selecting a sender, outside the set of users, based on a determined relationship between the sender and the recipient; transmitting an electronic notification to the sender, the electronic notification including an recommendation for the gift for the recipient; and modifying the recommendation in response to an update event following transmission of the electronic notification to the sender and prior to purchase of the gift, by the sender, for the recipient. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332308 | METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING A GIFT TO A SENDER - One variation of the method includes: receiving a set of communications from multiple users, the set of communications directed to a recipient through a social networking system; identifying a gift-appropriate event of the recipient based on the set of communications; determining an intent of a sender to respond to the gift-appropriate event of the recipient based on an incomplete electronic note drafted by the sender, within the social networking system, and designating the recipient; selecting a gift for the recipient in response to the determined intent of the sender; and prior to transmission of the note to the recipient, displaying a recommendation to the sender, the recommendation including a suggestion to purchase the gift for the recipient. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332309 | SHOPPING CONTEXT ENGINE - A system receives context data associated with a context and a user. The system then associates the context data to a user identifier and retrieves data associated with the context. The system then filters the data according to the context data to create result data. In another embodiment, the system also receives context data from a plurality of users, where the context data pertains to one or more attributes of a context. The system then using the context data ranks the one or more attributes of the context to create ranked data and generates a user interface based on the ranked data. In yet another embodiment, the system communicates context data associated with a context and a user to a server, and receives result data created by the server filtering data retrieved based on the context data. The system then generates a user interface based on the result data. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339179 | Wine Classification Systems and Methods of Pairing Wines and Foods - Disclosed are systems for and methods of categorizing wines, recommending sipping wines, pairing wines with foods, and arranging wines in a systematic display. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods evaluate and incorporate individual taste profiles. Defining a set of wine flavor characteristics facilitates comparisons and categorization. Recommendations are facilitated by substantially correlating the individual taste profiles to the wine flavor characteristics. Likewise, wine-food pairings are facilitated by substantially correlating the known food flavors to the wine flavor characteristics. Computer-implemented embodiments allow authorized user input and consumer access via wireless devices. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339180 | COLLECTION CREATOR AND ORGANIZER FOR SOCIAL MEDIA - A multimedia content sharing system permits users to collect multimedia items into collections, collaborate on collections with other users and share items with others in collections. The multimedia content sharing system provides recommendations of other items and collections that a user may wish to follow. The multimedia content sharing system provides easy editing of a user's collections by a drag and drop interface. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339181 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information management device which communicates with a mobile terminal, including a creating unit which creates advice information to be displayed on the mobile terminal for giving advice to a customer; a transmitting unit which transmits the advice information to the mobile terminal; and a requesting unit which transmits, to the mobile terminal, a deletion request for deleting the advice information, at a predetermined timing after transmission of the advice information. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339182 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A SUPPLEMENTAL PRODUCT TO OFFER FOR SALE DURING A TRANSACTION - According to some embodiments, a supplemental product or service may be offered to a user during a transaction, either in addition to products and/or services the user is purchasing, or as a replacement to one or more of the products and/or services that the user is purchasing. The functionality may be implemented, for example, in a retail embodiment where a user is purchasing products and/or services at a cash register or other point-of-sale terminal. One or more embodiments may be implemented online where a user is purchasing products and/or services using a computer, terminal, telephone or other client or user device and accessing a World Wide Web site, online catalog, interactive voice response unit or system, etc. | 12-19-2013 |
20130346232 | Automated Computer System and Method For Procurement Management - A procurement management system and automated computer-implemented method for providing users with eco-friendly alternatives found in the marketplace. A procurement management system gives businesses of all size the ability to streamline their buying process and make this process more efficient and cost effective. The computer-implemented method is driven by a processor that queries for eco-friendly merchandise, similar to that of the products queried by the user. This automated computer-implemented method calculates and presents to customers (a) the number of trees saved; (b) the number of British Thermal Units saved; (c) the number of gallons of water saved; and (d) the pounds of CO | 12-26-2013 |
20130346233 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING LOCATION-BASED GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods and systems for generating location-aware group recommendations are discussed. For example, a method can include operations for receiving a group recommendation request, accessing user profile data associated with members of the group, and generating a group recommendation. The group recommendation request can be received at a network-based system and include identification of a first and second user as well as information identifying a current location associated with the first and second users. Accessing the user profile information can include accessing user profile information for both the first and second users. The group recommendation can be generated based on the current location data and a combination of at least a portion of the user profile data from the first and second users. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346234 | RECOMMENDATIONS SYSTEM - A recommendation system communicates with end user devices over a computer communications network and includes a recommendations engine that communicates with the network from behind a firewall that inhibits unauthorized communications from the network, a data file system that receives disposition update data in response to purchase actions initiated by an end user device and receives ingested user activity data in response to activity at a network storefront initiated by an end user device, and a database system that updates a recommendation model for the end user device in response to receiving the disposition update data and ingested user activity data. The recommendations engine generates a recommendation for the end user device in response to the update of the recommendation model. | 12-26-2013 |
20140006205 | E-CHECK DEVICE, SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF | 01-02-2014 |
20140012700 | METHODS FOR AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ADVICE BASED UPON EMOTIONAL MOTIVATORS - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for associating Products with Emotional Qualifiers and Purchasers with Emotional Motivators. The associations may then be used to provide advice on a decision to Purchase or other decision. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019293 | Automated Technique For Generating Recommendations Of Potential Supplier Candidates - An automated technique for generating supplier recommendations may include: (1) receiving a set of supplier entity data indicating information about present transaction capabilities of a supplier entity; (2) storing the supplier entity data; (3) verifying the supplier entity data to generate a supplier entity data validation result; (4) updating the supplier entity data as verified supplier entity data based on the supplier entity data validation result; (5) receiving one or more items of supplier entity feedback data indicating information about previous transactions engaged in by the supplier entity with a buyer entity; (6) storing the supplier entity feedback data; (7) receiving a set of buyer entity criteria data indicating information about present transaction requirements of a buyer entity; and (8) generating a buyer entity recommendation based on consideration of the supplier entity data, the supplier entity data validation result, the supplier entity feedback information, and the buyer entity criteria data. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019294 | RETAIL LOCATION CONCIERGE STATION - Apparatus and methods for a retail location concierge station are provided. Apparatus and methods in accordance with principles described herein may be initiated by a customer logging into an online portal prior to visiting a retail location. Apparatus and methods may be initiated by the customer entering a retail location and providing identification information at the station. The station may present products offered by the entity that the customer may wish to add to their existing relationship with the entity. These products may be pre-selected based on information known to the entity about customer. The station may transmit products selected by the customer to an employee of the entity. The employee may review the products selected by the customer prior to servicing the customer. The station may present additional products that may accomplish an express or implied objective of the customer. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019295 | Automated Technique For Generating Recommendations Of Potential Supplier Candidates - An automated technique for generating supplier recommendations may include: (1) receiving a set of supplier entity data indicating information about present transaction capabilities of a supplier entity; (2) storing the supplier entity data; (3) verifying the supplier entity data to generate a supplier entity data validation result; (4) updating the supplier entity data as verified supplier entity data based on the supplier entity data validation result; (5) receiving one or more items of supplier entity feedback data indicating information about previous transactions engaged in by the supplier entity with a buyer entity; (6) storing the supplier entity feedback data; (7) receiving a set of buyer entity criteria data indicating information about present transaction requirements of a buyer entity; and (8) generating a buyer entity recommendation based on consideration of the supplier entity data, the supplier entity data validation result, the supplier entity feedback information, and the buyer entity criteria data. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019296 | PERSONAL TASTE ASSESSMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A personal taste assessment system receives a person's ratings for various rated items, such as wines or other beverages, and it develops a preference model for the person based on the received ratings. When developing the preference model, the system accesses a database of candidate items, wherein each candidate item is associated with at least one trait value. The system retrieves from the database a value for at least one trait for each of the rated items, identifies at least one pattern of dependency between at least one of the retrieved trait values and at least one of the received ratings, and determines a preference model based on the at least one pattern of dependency. The system may use the preference model to develop a preference profile for the person, make recommendations, and/or make predictions as to items that the person and/or a group that includes the person may enjoy. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025531 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHOPPING IN AN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ENVIRONMENT WITH SOCIAL NETWORKING CONNECTIONS - A computer-implemented method for shopping in an electronic commerce environment via a data communication network includes identifying a first user who is interacting with the electronic commerce environment via a browser, selecting items for sale in the electronic commerce environment based on a browsing history of a second user associated with the first user via a social network connection, and displaying a representation of the selected items to the first user via the browser. The browsing history of the second user includes items viewed and/or purchased by the second user. The method may include updating the selection of items to include items relevant to content being displayed to the first user via the browser. The relevance may be based at least in part on information describing a function, a characteristic and/or a price of the items with respect to the content. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025532 | Correlated Content Recommendation Techniques - Techniques are disclosed for generating and ranking product recommendations based at least in part on product attributes. Two or more sets of product recommendations may be generated based on a source product. The recommendation sets may include products also purchased by those who purchased the source product, products within the same genre as the source product, or products with some other trait in common with the source product. The product recommendations may be initially ranked based on overlap within the recommendation sets. A product attribute relating to the source product or one or more of the product recommendations may be determined, and this attribute may be correlated with the product recommendations. The recommendations may then be re-ranked based on the correlated product attribute and a product recommendation list may be displayed to the user. The recommendation list may be limited to a particular type of product using a control filter. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025533 | Method and Apparatus of Recommending Clothing Products - The present disclosure provides techniques to recommending items (clothing items). These techniques may send an item operation request including a user identifier. After receiving the request, the server may determine a pre-established correspondence between the user identifier and attribute values of the items' first attribute based on the user identifier. The server may acquire the attribute values corresponding to the user identifier contained in the request. The server may then select certain items from the items associated with the corresponding attribute values, and recommend the certain items to users. These techniques avoid problems of existing technologies and improve item recommendation efficiency. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032358 | Sharing Recommendation Agents - A customized recommendation agent for the user is built using a behavioral model. The customized recommendation agent selects recommendations from a corpus to present to the user, based on the behavioral model and the user's current or predicted future context. The customized recommendation agent can be shared by the user with others, thus allowing others to access recommendations that may appeal to the user, for example, for use in planning joint activities. Because the user's recommendation agent is independent from the user's actual history, preferences can be shared without revealing a user's specific behavior. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032359 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT RECOMMENDATIONS - One or more computing devices may determine a category of interest to a user, receive an image, extract one or more features in the image, determine a recommendation in the category of interest based, at least in part, on the one or more extracted features, and communicate the recommendation to the user. The image can be received from a video camera, a webcam, a digital camera, a scanner, a remote computing device, a mobile device, and/or a storage drive. The recommendation in the category of interest may be determined, at least in part, by one or more user preferences, or by historic data. Additionally, the one or more features which are extracted from the image may be based on the category of interest, user preferences, and/or historic data. The features can include user physical characteristics, clothing, facial features, expression, environment, patterns, shapes, aesthetic characteristics, furniture, furnishings, layout, colors, and/or dimensions. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032360 | AUGMENTED REALITY SHOPPER ROUTING - A store routing system for guiding a shopper in a store comprises a storage storing a store product map comprising location information for products available at the store. The system also comprises an analytics engine for identifying one or more recommended products for the shopper based on a set of one or more sought products. The system also comprises a route calculator for calculating a route through the store to a location of each of the sought products based on the store product map and for including a waypoint in the route corresponding to a location of each of the one or more recommended products. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032361 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IN MEDIA CONTENT - A unique identifier is used to identify products and services in media content in a method which includes receiving a request for information regarding a product or service identifiable in content being presented on a display, in response to the received request, determining a unique identifier for the product or service, determining if information for an alternate product or service should be returned in response to the request and if alternate product or service information should be returned in response to the request, determining a unique identifier for the alternate product or service. The process further includes searching for the unique identifier of the product or service in the original request or the alternate product or service in a database of unique identifiers to obtain product or service information for the product or service for which information is to be returned. The information retrieved can include sales information. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040067 | Social Marketplace Digital Worth Score - A method and system are disclosed for managing catalog resources within a social commerce environment. Users are referred by a plurality of affiliates to asocial commerce marketplace system. Once referred, the users are presented with a customized social commerce storefront that is associated with an individual affiliate. Each of the customized social commerce storefronts comprises a micro catalog of purchasable products, which is a subset of a master catalog comprising a set of available products. Social data associated with the user and catalog data associated with the purchasable products is processed to generate product catalog data to the user, which is then provided to the user. The user reviews the social commerce content and selects individual purchasable products for purchase. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040068 | Service Recommender System For Mobile Users - A mobile recommendation system for providing one or more recommendations to a group of mobile users having specific behavior characteristics among a plurality of mobile users is disclosed. The mobile recommendation system comprises of a pre-clustered repository that is configured to store pre-cluster data of the group of mobile users. The mobile recommendation system further comprises a processor capable of controlling a mobile identification generation module that is configured to create a plurality of pre-clusters of mobile users with regard to the pre-cluster data stored in the pre-clustered repository and to generate a unique identification parameter for each mobile user for identifying a priority of the specific behavior characteristics of the respective mobile user in the respective precluster. The processor is also capable of controlling a categorizing module that is configured to identify the group of mobile user with respect to the specific behavior characteristics of each mobile user and categorize one or more mobile users as influential users among the selected group of mobile users based on the unique identification parameter, and identifying at least one recommendation for the selected influential users. The mobile recommendation system further comprises a mobile interface that is configured to communicate one or more recommendations to each influential mobile user. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046794 | SHOPPING ASSISTANT - Systems and methods of assisting in an electronic shopping experience are disclosed. A request may be received to add a first item to a virtual shopping cart from a user. The first item in the virtual shopping cart may be caused to be displayed to the user. A request to remove the first item from the virtual shopping cart may be received from the user. The user may be prompted to indicate a reason for the request to remove the first item from the virtual shopping cart. An indication of the reason for the request to remove the first item from the virtual shopping cart may be received from the user. A replacement item for the first item may be determined based on the indication of the reason for the request to remove the first item. The replacement item may be caused to be displayed to the user. | 02-13-2014 |
20140052566 | TIRE RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - A method of generating a tire recommendation includes receiving vehicle data and historical driving data of a user, retrieving, by a computer, a first set of tire names having associated vehicle fitment data that corresponds to the vehicle data, and selecting, by the computer, a first criteria based on the historical driving data. The method further includes identifying a final set of tire names, by identifying tire names in the first set of tire names that have associated tire performance data that meet the first criteria. The method also includes identifying, by the computer, a tire name from the final set of tire names having a highest associated sales history datum as a first tire recommendation, and displaying, by the computer, the first tire recommendation. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052567 | RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON WEARABLE SENSORS - Apparatus and method for providing contextual recommendations based on user state are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, sensor data corresponding to at least one sensor included in an item worn by a user is received. A user state is determined based on the received sensor data. In response to a state change being satisfied by at least the user state, a recommendation is determined based on the user state and a profile associated with the user. The recommendation may be presented on an electronic mobile device associated with the user. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052568 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEARCHING FOR AND IDENTIFYING DATA REPOSITORY DEFICITS - A computing system for searching for and identifying data repository deficits includes an interactive database of items, a data repository that stores a first type of information related to items, a search engine configured to identify items that do not have an amount of the first type of information that meets a first threshold, a candidate selection interface that provides functionality for the user to select an item from recommended candidate items needing the first type of information, a user interface via which the user can provide the first type of information for an item selected by the user, a game system configured to calculate for a game scores and rankings based at least in part on data stored in the data repository. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052569 | Methods and Systems for Matching a Professional with a Referral Opportunity - A method for matching a professional with a referral opportunity includes automatically generating, by a profile generator executing on a first computing device, a profile of a professional. The method includes receiving, by an analysis engine executing on the first computing device, from a second computing device, an identification of a referral opportunity having at least one requirement. The method includes determining, by the analysis engine, that the generated profile satisfies the at least one requirement. The method includes transmitting, by the analysis engine, to the second computing device, the identification of the professional. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052570 | System And Method For Selecting A Bedding Mattress - A method is provided for selecting one of a plurality of different bedding mattresses for a customer. The method includes the steps of receiving a set of data related qualitative information related to the customer or the customer's sleeping habits and processing by a processor the set of data to evaluate support needs for a customer. The method further includes the step of determining which of the plurality of bedding mattresses has support characteristics that closely match the support needs of the customer. | 02-20-2014 |
20140058881 | System and Process for Crop Scouting and Pest Cure Recommendation - A process and system implemented on a portable computing device, which is equipped with a global positioning system, for crop scouting and pest cure recommendation. The process or system provides Farm Scout, Agronomist and Sales Personnel with an ability to: (1) easily identify and mark the geo-location of insects, weeds, diseases or other remarkable conditions; (2) report findings to customers in a concise format; (3) provide product and application recommendations to customers for curing remarkable conditions; and (4) maintain easily accessible history files used to determine trends and successful treatment programs. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058882 | Method and Apparatus for Ordering Recommendations According to a Mean/Variance Tradeoff - Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods that facilitate the recommendation of an item to a user. One particular aspect includes a method including the steps of: a) receiving a user request for a new recommendation including rating information for previously-selected items, b) retrieving a mean vector and a covariance matrix representing estimates of prior ratings for a plurality of items by other users, c) calculating a selection likelihood statistics as a function of the estimated mean vector, the estimated covariance matrix and the rating information provided by the, d) calculating ranking statistics as a function of the selection likelihood statistics, and e) transmitting a response to the user recommending at least one of the items not previously selected as a function of the ranking statistics. The recommended item may, for example, be a movie. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058883 | Method and System for an Estimator Using Estimated Mean and Covariance - An estimator system where unknown values are represented as a plurality of vectors in multi-dimensional space is disclosed. The statistics of the vectors constitute a mean vector and a covariance matrix. A mean vector and a covariance matrix are estimated from a database of known values. Estimated values can then be predicted using the mean vector and the covariance matrix. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058884 | PRESENTING A TRAVEL OPTION - Presentation of travel options may involve presenting a travel option based on an event stored in a calendar of a user. A suggestion machine may access calendar data of the user and travel data for a travel option (e.g., a flight from San Francisco to New York). Based on the accessed calendar data and travel data, the suggestion machine may present one or more travel options to the user. | 02-27-2014 |
20140067594 | DETERMINING GIFTABILITY OF A PRODUCT - Methods for making gift recommendations are disclosed. The interests of an intended recipient are identified as are the interests associated with a particular product. Products corresponding to the recipient's interests are identified and then ranked according to giftability. Giftability indicates the appropriateness of a product for giving as a gift. Products may also be ranked according to appropriateness for a category or occasion. Giftability may be specified or inferred from one or more of gift-wrapping requests, gifting references in comments or reviews, and sales surges during holidays. A Naïve-Bayes-type method may be used to infer the giftability of products for which such data is not available. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067595 | DETERMINING GIFTABILITY OF A PRODUCT - Methods for making gift recommendations are disclosed. The interests of an intended recipient are identified as are the interests associated with a particular product. Products corresponding to the recipient's interests are identified and then ranked according to giftability. Giftability indicates the appropriateness of a product for giving as a gift. Products may also be ranked according to appropriateness for a category or occasion. Giftability may be specified or inferred from one or more of gift-wrapping requests, gifting references in comments or reviews, and sales surges during holidays. A Naïve-Bayes-type method may be used to infer the giftability of products for which such data is not available. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067596 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES - A system, method, and apparatus for recommending products and services are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a recommendation engine configured to determine salable items purchased by a consumer, the salable items including salable items purchased from a plurality of merchants and from a plurality of salable item categories and receive a rating from the consumer for each of the purchased salable items. The recommendation engine is also configured to determine cohort consumers from among consumers by selecting consumers who have purchased at least some of the salable items and rated those salable items similar to the ratings provided by the consumer. The recommendation engine determines salable items to recommend for each salable item category by determining recommendable salable items from direct and/or inferential matching based on other salable items purchased by the cohort consumers. The recommendation engine transmits information associated with at least some of the recommendable salable items. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067597 | HYBRID RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A hybrid recommendation system uses offline testing and online testing to generate and optimize recommendation functions. The functions generate recommendations which may be presented online for product purchases. Indices are created from the recommendations. Lookups may be performed on the indices to select recommendations for a particular user. The selected recommendations may be filtered before presenting to the user. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067598 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display processor including a recommendation module, a recommendation stop module and a recommendation resumption module. The recommendation module is configured to display a first image representative of an unpurchased content and a second image representative of a purchased content. A series of the unpurchased content is same as a series of the purchased content. The recommendation stop module is configured to stop display of the first image if an input module accepts a first operation for the first image. The recommendation resumption module is configured to resume display of the first image if purchasing one of the same series during a stop of display of the first image. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067599 | METHOD FOR TREAD SELECTION - A method for tread selection to select a tread to attach to a tread side of a tire casing when manufacturing a tire includes the steps of: a) measuring, by a tire condition measurement unit, at least one characteristic value indicating at least one of a tire condition and a vehicle running condition; b) predicting, by a casing life prediction unit, a remaining life of the tire casing based on the at least one characteristic value measured in step a); c) selecting, by a tread selection unit, at least one recommended tread in accordance with the remaining life of the tire casing predicted in step b) from among a plurality of treads attachable to the tire casing, using wear life information calculated in advance for each of the treads; and d) displaying, by a terminal, the at least one recommended tread selected in step c). | 03-06-2014 |
20140074647 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING CLOUD CONFIGURATION IN A CLOUD SERVICE MARKET PLACE - In a method and system for providing one or more cloud services in a cloud, one or more high-level parameters are received from a customer through a service requisition interface; a cloud configuration is generated along with a Service Level Agreement (SLA) based on the received high-level parameters; the generated cloud configuration along with the SLA is recommended to the customer through an output interface; the customer is allowed to negotiate the SLA recommendation through the service requisition interface based on a tradeoff between the one or more high level details at a service layer of the cloud through an SLA negotiation system; and the one or more cloud services are provided to the customer based on the negotiated SLA. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074648 | PORTION RECOMMENDATION FOR ELECTRONIC BOOKS - A method for providing comments for an electronic book with a number of portions includes receiving user tags, each corresponding to a portion; analyzing the tags to generate corresponding reader-specific information; and preparing presentation information based on the reader-specific information. A reader can create such comments for the reader's own later use or a group of readers can generate comments that are presented to yet another reader at a later time. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074649 | GROCERY RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - State-based approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for recommending items to a user. A method comprises detecting a user state, from a plurality of different enumerated user states, based on items that the user recently selected, and/or location data. Based upon the detected user state, a particular algorithm, from a plurality of algorithms, is selected for recommending items. Information about the recommended items is presented to the user. Responsive to presenting the information about the recommended items, input is received selecting one or more of the recommended items for at least one of: adding to a shopping list, or requesting a coupon. Examples of possible detected user states include a recipe state, a grocery shopping state, and a quick shopping-run state. In an embodiment, state detection occurs at a client device, such as a smartphone featuring a shopping list management application or coupon application. A server-side recommendation engine provides recommendations. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074650 | PERSONALIZED CROSS-DOMAIN RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - Cross-domain recommender systems comprising: a profile module for allowing a user to define preferences in a plurality of domains; a query module for allowing a user to request a recommendation in a target domain; a recommendation module for responding to a request by applying an algorithm to make one or more recommendations in said target domain using preferences defined in one or more non-target domains; and a display module for presenting said one or more recommendations to a user. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074651 | METHODS FOR AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING EMOTIONAL MOTIVATORS WITH PRODUCTS - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for associating Emotional Motivators with a Product. The Emotional Motivators associated with the Products are correlated with Emotional Motivators associated with a Purchaser. Advice regarding a Purchase may be provided based upon the correlated Emotional Motivators. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074652 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE HAVING A RESIZABLE RECOMMENDATIONS AREA - A system and method for rendering a graphical user interface having recommendations. The method includes accessing, within a mobile device, a data store corresponding to a multimedia container. The multimedia container comprises a first object and a second object and the multimedia container is operable to comprise one or more applications, widgets, pieces of content, and other multimedia containers. The data store comprises metadata associated with the first object and the second object. The method further includes displaying a plurality of images each corresponding to a respective recommendation based at least on the metadata associated with the first object and receiving an input. The plurality of items is displayed within a first portion of a display device. The method further includes in response to the input, displaying the plurality of images within a second portion of the display device. The second portion of the display device is greater in size than the first portion of the display device. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074653 | Method, system and apparatus for delivering a recommendation - A method of delivering a recommendation is disclosed. A preference rating is received for each of a plurality of electronic devices based on a task to be recommended, each of the preference ratings defining a preference to perform the recommended task on a corresponding one of the electronic devices. A timeliness profile associated with the recommendation is received. The timeliness profile defines relevance of delivering the recommendation over a period of time. One of the electronic devices on which to deliver the recommendation at a particular point in time is selected based on a function of the preference rating of the selected electronic device and the timeliness profile associated with the recommendation at that point in time. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074654 | SYSTEM FOR MAKING FINANCIAL GIFTS - A computer-implemented method for electronic gift giving. An exemplary embodiment includes providing an internet site for access by a giver, prompting the giver to enter giver identification information, prompting the giver to enter recipient information, prompting the giver to enter a value of a monetary gift, providing a plurality of possible recommended gifts or transfers of funds, prompting the giver to recommend at least one gift or transfer of funds to be effectuated using the monetary gift, prompting the giver to select a presentation template from a plurality of recommended presentation templates, prompting the giver to transfer the value of the monetary gift to a gift account, and storing the value of the monetary gift and the at least one recommended gift or transfer in association with the presentation template for delivery to a recipient. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081798 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A GIFT REGISTRY - Systems and methods for recommending items for inclusion in a gift registry for a registrant are provided. In various aspects, a processor may receive, over an electronic network, information identifying one or more social sources associated with the registrant. The information identifying the social sources may be used to automatically determine one or more individuals socially associated with the registrant at the respective sources. An invitation may be transmitted to at least one of the determined individuals, requesting the individual to select and recommend at least one item for inclusion in the registrant's gift registry. In one or more aspects, the registrant may accept, ignore, or request additional information regarding items selected and recommended by one or more of the individuals. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081799 | PERSONAL STOREROOMS FOR ONLINE SHOPPING - A method, system, non-transient computer-readable storage medium and computer product for online shopping via wired or wireless server communication are provided. The method for online shopping includes creating public aisles and at least one personal storeroom for each client in an online store application at the server and enabling each client to select online products offered for sale from the created personal storerooms and public aisles. The method for online shopping includes presenting the online store to each client as an animated cartoon of a three-dimensional virtual store. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081800 | Recommending Product Information - The present disclosure provides example methods and apparatuses of recommending product information. When it is monitored that a user adds selected product information to a set of to-be-confirmed product information, a purchasing probability that the user purchases the selected product information is obtained. The purchasing probability may be determined according to the historical operating behavior information of the user relating to the set of to-be-confirmed product information. Recommended product information is determined in accordance with the selected product information and the purchasing probability. The recommended product information is returned to the user. The present techniques improve an effectiveness of the recommended result. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089129 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING SUBSTITUTES FOR PRODUCTS INDICATED IN AN ELECTRONIC SHOPPING LIST - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a set of substitutes to recommend to a user. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an item from a remote computing device the item being indicative of a product sold by a retailer. The method also includes determining one or more potential substitutes for the product based on the item, wherein a plurality of attributes are associated with each potential substitute, including a substitute cost corresponding to the potential substitute and a substitution weight corresponding to the potential substitute. The method also includes for each of the one or more potential substitutes, determining a score of the potential substitute based on the plurality of attributes associated with the potential substitute. The method further includes determining a set of recommended substitutes based on the scores and providing the set of recommended substitutes to the remote computing device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING GIFT RECOMMENDATIONS USING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA - Disclose are methods for evaluating a user's interests and making gift recommendations using social media data. Interests and attributes of a user may be detected from social media content and products corresponding to the interests and attributes may be selected and presented as gift recommendations for the user. Methods are disclosed for resolving ambiguity as to interests reflected by textual data in social media content. Also disclosed are methods for inferring a user's interests from the interests of friends of the user. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING GIFT RECOMMENDATIONS USING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA - Disclose are methods for evaluating a user's interests and making gift recommendations using social media data. Interests and attributes of a user may be detected from social media content and products corresponding to the interests and attributes may be selected and presented as gift recommendations for the user. Methods are disclosed for resolving ambiguity as to interests reflected by textual data in social media content. Also disclosed are methods for inferring a user's interests from the interests of friends of the user. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089132 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING GIFT RECOMMENDATIONS USING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA - Disclose are methods for evaluating a user's interests and making gift recommendations using social media data. Interests and attributes of a user may be detected from social media content and products corresponding to the interests and attributes may be selected and presented as gift recommendations for the user. Methods are disclosed for resolving ambiguity as to interests reflected by textual data in social media content. Also disclosed are methods for inferring a user's interests from the interests of friends of the user. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089133 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING SUBSTITUTES FOR PURCHASED ITEMS IN A PURCHASE HISTORY OF A USER - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a set of substitutes to recommend to a user. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a product indicator from a remote computing device, with the product indicator being indicative of a brand of a product sold by a retailer. The method also includes determining one or more potential substitutes for the product based on the product indicator, wherein a plurality of attributes are associated with each potential substitute, including a substitute cost corresponding to the potential substitute and a substitution weight corresponding to the potential substitute. The method also includes for each of the one or more potential substitutes, determining a score of the potential substitute based on the plurality of attributes associated with the potential substitute. The method further includes determining a set of recommended substitutes based on the scores and providing the set of recommended substitutes to the remote computing device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089134 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A CUSTOMIZED SHOPPING EXPERIENCE FOR A USER - Embodiments of the invention comprise a system, computer program product and computer implemented method that include a series of instructions executable on a computer. In some embodiments, the computer program product performs a process of creating user tags for products using attributes of the user's profile in a social media website and a process of creating the list of products that the user can purchase from the attributes. In some embodiments, the user is prompted for a selection of user tags from at least one social media profile page associated with the user that include at least one of lifestyle attributes, product types, product manufacturers, and product retailers. Responsive to the receipt of the user tags, the list of products and ranking the list of products is created and displayed on the user's mobile device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089135 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING A REAL TIME SHARED SHOPPING EXPERIENCE - Embodiments of the invention comprise a system, computer program product, and computer-implemented method for performing a process of creating the list of products that a user can purchase and a process of allowing the user to share a product from the list of products with a second user in real time. In some embodiments, the computer program product implements the steps of prompting the user for a selection of user tags from a list of user tags and a social media profile page associated with the user. For example, the user tags may include a user gender, a product type, a product manufacturer, and a product retailer. Responsive to the receipt of the user tags, embodiments of the invention create the list of products matching the user tags and display at least one product from the list of product on a mobile device associated with the user. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089136 | USING FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS TO GENERATE RECOMMENDATIONS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that processes transaction data. During operation, the system obtains the transaction data for a set of financial transactions between a set of users and a set of organizations. Next, the system uses the transaction data to calculate a set of preference scores for the users and the organizations. Finally, the system generates recommendations associated with the users and the organizations from the preference scores without obtaining explicit preferences for the organizations from the users. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095345 | DATA ANALYSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A personalized data analysis method is provided, so as to find features having discrimination capability from target analysis items. In particular, a data analysis method includes: acquiring sample data; selecting discriminative features of the sample data; determining, for a target analysis item, whether it has a discriminative feature; and correlating the target analysis item with the discriminative feature in response to having the discriminative feature. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095346 | DATA ANALYSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A personalized data analysis method is provided, so as to find features having discrimination capability from target analysis items. In particular, a data analysis method includes: acquiring sample data; selecting discriminative features of the sample data; determining, for a target analysis item, whether it has a discriminative feature; and correlating the target analysis item with the discriminative feature in response to having the discriminative feature. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095347 | BUSINESS EVENT PROCESSING - Techniques for business event processing are presented. Methods and apparatuses disclosed herein may operate to receiving a request to perform an operation on a listing previously published by an online marketplace; to identify at least one additional listing having certain characteristics in common with the listing from a plurality of previously published listings including the listing; and to automatically perform the operation on the at least one additional listing. The operation may include performing an inventory check on the at least one additional listing. | 04-03-2014 |
20140100986 | AUTOMATED DETECTION AND EXPOSURE OF BEHAVIOR-BASED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BROWSABLE ITEMS - Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108189 | Real-Time Cross-Selling Proposal Calculation - A method for generating cross-selling product recommendations is provided. The method includes determining one or more base products purchased by a selected customer based on billing data, finding other customers who purchased the base products, determining one or more additional products which have been purchased by the other customers, sorting the additional products, and providing predictive data including information relating to the additional products to be recommended to the selected customer. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108190 | RECOMMENDING PRODUCT INFORMATION - Recommending product information is disclosed, including: classifying a plurality of product prices associated with a category of products into a plurality of actual price intervals based at least in part on historical user actions associated with a plurality of users with respect to products associated with the category, wherein each actual price interval comprises a subset of the plurality of product prices; determining a purchasing power interval for a current user based at least in part on historical user actions associated with the current user with respect to the products associated with the category; and determining product information associated with one or more products of the products associated with the category to be recommended to the current user based at least in part on an actual price interval of the plurality of actual price intervals that corresponds to the purchasing power interval. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108191 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES RELATING TO MERGED IMAGES AND STORAGE THEREOF - An e-commerce method involves on-line viewing of a first article through a linking node for virtual merging on another structure. A particular application of the invention is directed to online apparel shopping involving a color matching scheme using color codes provided with images to be merged. For example, on-line viewing of one article, such as clothing, on another structure, includes creating an item from image-data corresponding to a colored article selected by an on-line viewer from an on-line viewer site with an image of a color structure selected by the on-line viewer, and indicating whether the colored article and the colored structure satisfy a color-matching criterion. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114796 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS - Techniques are disclosed for providing product recommendations based on content clusters. The product may be, for example, goods or services. In some embodiments, the techniques include forming a product cluster based at least in part on product metadata, correlating the product cluster based at least in part on product correlation data, and calculating each product distance to a center of each correlated product cluster. In some cases, the techniques may further include generating recommendations based on product clusters, wherein only products within a given distance to a center of each correlated product cluster are recommended. In some cases, forming a product cluster is carried out using k-means clustering so as to minimize the within-cluster sum of squares, and the techniques may further include optimizing the within cluster sum of squares. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114797 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS - Techniques are disclosed for providing product recommendations based on content clusters. The product may be, for example, goods or services. In some embodiments, the techniques are implemented in a system configured to form a product cluster based at least in part on product metadata, correlate the product cluster based at least in part on product correlation data, and calculate each product distance to a center of each correlated product cluster. In some cases, the system may be further configured to generate recommendations based on product clusters, wherein only products within a given distance to a center of each correlated product cluster are recommended. In some cases, forming a product cluster is carried out using k-means clustering so as to minimize the within-cluster sum of squares. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114798 | Commerce System and Method of Controlling the Commerce System Using an Optimized Shopping List - A commerce system involves transactions between manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and consumers. Product information for a plurality of products is collected and stored in a database. A website is provided for a consumer to create a shopping list with weighted product attributes. A baseline product value is determined for each of the products. A consumer weighted product value is determined based on the baseline product value and the weighted product attributes. A discounted offer is generated for the consumer. A product score is determined based on the consumer weighted product value and retailer product value. The shopping list is optimized based on the product score. The optimized shopping list is provided to the consumer to assist with purchasing decisions. Purchasing decisions within the commerce system are controlled by enabling the consumer to select the products for purchase based on the optimized shopping list. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122290 | METHODS & APPARATUS TO SELECT OPTIMUM PROMOTIONAL GIVEAWAY OR GIFT - Various embodiments include a method comprising presenting selected gifts based on a multi-dimensional set of parameters, wherein each parameter within the multi-dimensional set of parameters is assigned a grade or scoring value for a given product. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129371 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED NEURAL NETWORK GENESIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS - In selected embodiments a recommendation generator builds a network of interrelationships between venues, reviewers and users based on their attributes and reviewer and user reviews of the venues which are enhanced by dynamic resonance between source sites. The recommendation engine in certain embodiments determines recommended venues based on user attributes and venue preferences by performing geometric contextualization on generated recommendation sets and determining recommendation resonance with past recommendations. Remote businesses may also link with the recommendation generator to receive recommendations custom-tailored to their business. In selected embodiments, interconnectivity augmentation provides for enhanced neural network topology and recommendations for foreign locales. Various user interfaces are also contemplated thereby providing users with a view of the neural network topology as well as the ability to collaboratively determine meeting places. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129372 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRAVEL RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods and systems for travel recommendations, in particular, such methods and systems as provide ranked recommendations that take into account user-specified preferences in a plurality of categories and which include both transparent and opaque results. The ranked recommendations may include both transparent and opaque results and may be determined using user-specified destinations and one or more of: user activity or amenity preferences, room amenity and room type preferences, accommodation quality preferences, and preferred travel dates. Optionally, flight preference information may also be used in computing the ranked results. The rankings may involve weighted scorings that limit emphasis on potential outlier accommodation properties deemed to be substantially different from a user's specified preferences in one or more such categories. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129373 | ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON TRUE FIT DETERMINATION - An apparatus and method to facilitate providing item recommendations are disclosed herein. A determination of same wearable items purchased by both of at least a first user and a second user is made. At least one of a first other wearable item purchased by the first user or a second other wearable item purchased by the second user is identified. A first physical fit of wearable items in the same item categorgy for the first user and a second physical fit of the wearable items in the same item category for the second user are automatically determined. The automatic determination is based on the determination of the same wearable items. Identification of the first other wearable item is provided to the second user as an item recommendation. The identification including a particular size from among a plurality of sizes of the identified first other wearable item. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129374 | INTELLIGENT AND INFORMED STORE DESIGN - Mechanisms are provided for intelligently creating store designs in a neurologically informed manner. A store layout can be set based on time of day and biorhythms, with early morning sections, mid-morning sections, etc. Sub-brands may be provided in each section. Point-of-sale material design and interaction is neurologically enhanced. Store promotions are improved using augmented reality. A smart shopping cart or basket is used to automatically scan items, provide promotions, detect items, and suggest other products as a customer moves throughout the store. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129375 | Methods and Systems for Selling Apparel - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide a garment that complements one or more figure characteristics. A garment is selected from a collection containing a number of garments each of which is categorized as being within one or more garment types. Information regarding a person's body shape is obtained. The body shape information is analyzed to identify at least one figure characteristic of the body shape. At least one garment type is identified that compliments the identified figure characteristic. Garments within the collection that are categorized as being within the identified complimentary garment type are identified. The identified garments are recommended. An input corresponding to a desired garment selected from the recommended identified garments is received. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129376 | ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, ITEM RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - An item recommendation system includes: a feedback receiving unit receiving feedbacks with respect to items by users; a feedback history storage unit storing information of feedbacks received at present or in the past by the feedback receiving unit in units of combinations of users and items; a relevance calculation unit calculating relevance between items base on first information indicating the degree in which the same user gives feedbacks to respective items and second information indicating the degree in which many users give feedbacks by using feedback information stored by the feedback history storage unit when receiving the feedback by the feedback receiving unit; and a recommendation unit immediately recommending items having higher relevance with respect to the item to the user who has given the feedback to the item by the feedback receiving unit based on the relevance calculated by the relevance calculation unit. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136360 | ECONOMIC DECISION SYSTEM FOR CONSUMPTION OF SECURITY SERVICES IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS - Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for recommending one or more security services to be consumed by an enterprise operator, the one or more security services each being hosted on a cloud platform. Implementations include actions of receiving a request for security services, the request being received from the enterprise operator and including requirements and cost constraints that are to be met by the security services, processing the requirements and cost constraints of the request in view of functions and costs associated with one or more registered security services to identify one or more candidate security services, and providing one or more recommendations to the enterprise operator, each recommendations identifying a candidate security service that can be consumed by the enterprise operator. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136361 | AVATAR HAVING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR IDENTIFYING AND PROVIDING PURCHASING RECOMMENDATIONS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an avatar having artificial intelligence for identifying and providing purchasing recommendations. The avatar acts as an electronic representation of a user. The avatar can quantify the utility of decisions and recommend decisions or make decisions on behalf of the user based on the quantified utility determined for a set of decisions. In this way, the avatar can continually learn how to make the best decisions for the user to maximize the happiness of the user. The user can also enter into personal decision contracts which are commitments to follow a decision made by the avatar. A score representing how often the user follows the avatar's decisions can be maintained as an indication of the trustworthiness of the user in entering into personal decision contracts. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136362 | INTELLIGENT PERFORMANCE-BASED PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods of utilizing communications networks and multivariate analysis to predict or recommend optimal products from a predefined population of commercially available products are disclosed. The recommendations are based on intelligence contained in processing elements and subjective and/or objective product information received from consumers or input to the systems as part of their initial setup. The output of the systems comprise sets of products that they predict the consumer will prefer and/or perform well for the problem or concern identified by the consumer. The performance and preference predictions are a function of consumer problems and product responsiveness patterns. Objective product information is generally obtained with diagnostic instruments. Data measured with the diagnostic instruments may be communicated to the data processing portions of the invention via the Internet. The outputs of the data processing portion of the system may be presented to consumers via the Internet as well. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136363 | DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT LOCATION AND PURCHASING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for locating digital media content. The systems and methods include receiving search terms from a client device through a single interface, searching a plurality of digital media content providers for digital media content using the search terms to obtain search results, sorting and organizing the search results, and returning the search results to the client device through the single interface. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143086 | CUSTOMIZED RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON CUSTOMER INFORMATION - A system includes a remote computing system and a mobile device. The remote computing system stores customer information in a customer database. The customer information is associated with an account identifier, and the remote computing system generates a customized recommendation based on the customer information. The mobile device receives the customer information, presents the customized recommendation, presents potential customer interests, receives a selection of at least one of the potential customer interests, and receives an updated customized recommendation from the remote computing system based at least in part on the selected customer interest. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143087 | IN-APP RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND USER TERMINAL - An in-app recommending system is provided. The in-app recommending system includes an in-app module interworking unit configured to periodically collect state information of a particular application having an in-app module from a user terminal in which the in-app module is installed, the in-app module being an application in the form of a component which can be inserted into a plurality of unspecified applications to provide a common service, a user analyzing unit configured to generate recommendation information of multimedia content on the basis of the state information of the particular application, the multimedia content including an application and digital content, and a transmission unit configured to push-transmit the recommendation information to the in-app module of the user terminal. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149247 | System and Method for Order Processing - Here, we present a system/method for the business or e-commerce on-line (e.g. Internet or computer network) with respect to promotion, products, sales, distribution, percentages for different parties, chain of distributions and fulfillment, responsibilities and tasks, contracts between different parties, and awards. Different variations and examples are also presented here. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149248 | RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A network device is configured to receive purchase information and receive, from a social networking server, information regarding a friend of the user. The network device is further configured to receive additional purchase information associated with the friend. The network device is further configured to generate, based on a result of comparing the purchase information and the additional purchase information, a recommendation, and send the recommendation to a user device associated with the user. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149249 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AND/OR RECOMMENDING THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED TO A USER - Systems and methods are described for an electronic services management system that enables a user to manage all or many of his or her third party products and services from one electronic platform. Specifically, the system includes operative connections to service provider systems so as to track customer usage of various third party products and services, and thus provide the user with a consolidated view of the user's products and services and enable the user to track usage and expense of the services, compare the expense to predetermined budget amounts, compare the usage to other users, etc. Additionally, the services management system recommends personalized product or service offerings to users based on the users' preferences and specific service usage. Further, the system provides alerts to the users when certain usage or expenditure thresholds are reached, when payments become due, or when new offers, deals, or service promotions become available. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156448 | PAYMENT AUTHORIZATION PROMPTING CATEGORIZATION - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for prompting categorization during payment authorization. The system includes a computer apparatus including a processor and a memory; and a software module stored in the memory. The software module includes executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor receive an authorization request for a transaction being conducted by a user; prompt the user to categorize at least one component of the transaction; receive a category from the user for the at least one component of the transaction; and store the category in association with the transaction. In some embodiments, the system will not authorize the transaction until the user categorizes at least one component of the transaction. In further embodiments, the system evaluates the transaction and only prompts the user to categorize the transaction if predefined criteria are met. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156449 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ITEM RECOMMENDATION - The present invention provides a method and system for recommending one or more products and recommending one or more sales channel to a user. The method and apparatus disclosed provides a mechanism for generating a personalized and customized catalog of relevant products to be presented to the user along with a plurality of sales channels showing availability of the recommended products. Various embodiments of the present invention teaches a mechanism for generating the product recommendation based on at least the user shopping context information, user preference information, and the body profile information. The one or more products are correlated with the user information and the most relevant products are recommended to the user. The invention also teaches a method for virtually trying a product recommended by the recommendation engine of the present invention before purchasing through the one or more recommended sales channels. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164170 | CONFIGURABLE MULTI-OBJECTIVE RECOMMENDATIONS - The method includes determining at least one business objective on which to base a recommendation list for a first item, associating a configurable target with the business objective, the configurable target being based on a goal for a second item, determining at least one business constraint relating the first item with the second item, the at least one business constraint being based on the business objective and the associated configurable target and generating the recommendation list for the first item based on a list of candidate items and the business constraint. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION AND MATCHING OF CUSTOMERS TO VENDIBLE ITEMS - A computer implemented method and system of providing an optimal matching of customer preference sets to vendible items using an objective function that measures utility of one or more customers associated with the customer preference sets. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164172 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FEATURE-BASED COLLABORATIVE FILTERING - An approach is provided for feature-based collaborative filtering. A recommendation engine receives a request to generate one or more recommendations with respect to one or more items for one or more users. The recommendation engine processes and/or facilitates a processing of descriptive information associated with the one or more items to generate a mapping of the one or more items to one or more features. In one embodiment, the mapping brings performance improvements particularly when applied to time-dependent and/or keyword-based items. The recommendation engine then determines preference information with respect to the one or more features for the one or more users. Based, at least in part, on the mapping and the preference information, the recommendation engine generates the one or more recommendations. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164173 | METHOD, MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RECOMMENDATIONS IN AN ONLINE MARKETPLACE - A method and a system to manage recommendations in an online marketplace are presented. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172621 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING PRODUCTS BASED ON A SHOPPING LIST AND A SHOPPING BUDGET - A computer-implemented method for interactive shopping includes storing shopping list data representing items in a shopping list associated with a customer and displaying a user control for selecting a shopping budget associated with the customer. The shopping budget represents a maximum price the customer desires to pay for the items in the shopping list. The computer-implemented method further includes storing budget data representing the shopping budget and generating, from an inventory of products for sale at a retail store, a list of recommended products corresponding to the items in the shopping list based upon the shopping list data and the budget data. A total selling price of the recommended products is within the shopping budget. The computer-implemented method further includes displaying the list of recommended products to a user. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172622 | SELECTING AND SCROLLING MEDIA CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS - A media content item is associated with one or more of the media content items based on a similarity of a feature of the media content items and displaying such one or more media content items as a scrollable set of image icons. Also, the scrollable set of image icons can enable playback, rewind, forward, search, pause, or record for selection at a user device. In an aspect, a shopping bag component can enable selection of a subset of the media content items for storage in association with bag data representative of a bag, wherein the subset of the media content items associated with the bag data are at least one of stored, accessed, shared, or purchased by the user device. Furthermore, in an aspect, the subset of the media content items associated with the bag data are searchable as a scrollable set of image icons for selection at the user device. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172623 | DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL USING AUDIO/VISUAL RECOGNITION - Systems and methods are provided for providing a platform to provide virtual storefronts to consumers. Environmental elements are associated with specific consumer services on computer server. A user in the environment takes audio or visual recordings of an environmental element and uploads the recordings to the server. The server determines the appropriate consumer service associated with the recorded environmental element and provides the user with a reference to the service. Accordingly, any space, such as a bus stop, subway or train terminal, movie theater, or airport, may be turned into a virtual store. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172624 | ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS - A system gathers user behavior data from a group of web retailers and/or non-web retailers, analyzes the user behavior data to identify product recommendations for products offered by the web retailers, and provides one of the identified product recommendations in connection with a product page associated with one of the web retailers. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172625 | Method And Apparatus For Collecting Data For An Item - A sale of a product or service may trigger a third party, such as a payment provider, to arrange for the collection of individual post-sale market data from the consumer. Alternatively, such post-sale market data may be directly provided by smart devices and the like. Dependent upon the type of product or service involved, a schedule for continuously submitting post-sale market data for the product or service may be provided and the consumer may be encouraged to submit post-sale market data in accordance therewith through a variety of incentives. The received, individual, post-sale market data may be aggregated by one or more sources to determine aggregate post-sale market data for the product or service. The submitted individual data and/or the determined aggregate post-sale market data may then be provided to consumers in order to assist them in making purchasing decisions. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172626 | RECOMMENDATION-INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND RECOMMENDATION-INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - A recommendation-information providing apparatus has an activity-history collecting part to collect activity histories of at least one of a first user and or a second user associated with the first user, a recommendation-information extracting part to extract recommendation information to be recommended to the first user, a recommendation-information providing part to provide the second user with the extracted recommendation information, a reservation accepting part to accept recommendation information for which the second user has performed a purchase reservation among the provided recommendation information, a purchase-intention confirming part to confirm a purchase intention of the first user by providing the first user with the accepted recommendation information, and a settlement processing part to perform a settlement process with the first user. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172627 | Next Generation Improvements in Recommendation Systems - This invention deals with the next generation improvements in recommendation systems. Retailers want to grow their business and increase sales. One embodiment displays recommendations for inside sales during calls to prospects via a CRM. Another embodiment improves genomic cross-sell by summing correlations between attributes. A third embodiment improves cross-channel personalization by linking personal information, preferably via a one-way hash, to a unique customer ID. A fourth embodiment enables a common core mobile app for different retailers. A fifth embodiment identifies a shopper before purchase to provide personal recommendations while shopping. A sixth embodiment utilizes a market place with shared customers for customer acquisition. A seventh embodiment utilizes customers' preferences and characteristics and sales data to influence recommendations. The characteristics can be combined into a shopper psychographic persona to generate recommendations. An eight embodiment is a market place for customers to shop, which is used for customer acquisition for participating retailers. A ninth embodiment shows how to improve search results based upon analysis of purchase data, and correlation of clicks on search results and search terms. A tenth embodiment calculates a buy index based upon value of products purchased versus products viewed to segment shoppers to determine discounts and re-marketing. An eleventh embodiment automates the creation of a dynamic website, usually for responsive design. | 06-19-2014 |
20140180864 | PERSONALIZED CLOTHING RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system provides an automated clothes shopping recommendation based on personal style information that defines one or more attributes of clothing articles and/or clothing styles preferred selected by a user, and based on measurement information that defines one or more physical user measurements. On-site direction assistance is provided to the user based on the measurement information through provision of an augmented reality display on a mobile electronic device. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180865 | INFORMING CUSTOMERS REGARDING ITEMS ON THEIR SHOPPING LIST - Systems and methods are disclosed for alerting a customer when an item is out of stock or in stock. In embodiments, the customer may add items to a shopping list within a shopping list software application (commonly known as an “app”) installed on a mobile computing device such as a smart phone. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, if one or more items on the shopping list become out-of-stock, and/or later become in-stock, the system may transmit an alert to be displayed on the shopping list app to notify the customer. The system may notify the customer regarding relevant changes in product inventories at selected retail store branches where the customer is most likely to shop and/or has recently shopped. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180866 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO RE-CREATE AN INTERNAL SHAPE OF A SHOE - A method and a system are provided to re-create an internal shape of a shoe using a pneumatically-powered inflatable sock. For example, a shoe last used to manufacture a shoe product based on a selected shoe identifier may be identified. A description of the dimensions of the shoe last may be accessed. The description of the dimensions of the shoe last may be expressed as a set of fills per chamber of a sock having a plurality of fillable chambers. The set of fills per chamber may be determined based on the displacement of an inner wall of the sock when the fillable chambers are in an inflated state. Further, an instruction to cause the plurality of fillable chambers to inflate according to the accessed description may be transmitted. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180867 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROSS-BORDER LOCATION OF EQUIVALENT GOODS AND SERVICES - A system receives a preference of a user, wherein the preference relates to a product or service located in a first geographic location, and then the system receives an identification of a second geographic location. The system analyzes, based on the preference of the user, a database to identify candidate products or services in the second geographic location. The system then determines, from the candidate products or services, an equivalent product or service at least in part by comparison of the candidate products or services to the preference of the user. The system transmits to the user an identification of the equivalent product or service located in the second geographic location. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180868 | ONTOLOGY BASED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A search technology generates recommendations with minimal user data and participation, and provides better interpretation of user data, such as popularity, thus obtaining breadth and quality in recommendations. It is sensitive to the semantic content of natural language terms and lets users briefly describe the intended recipient (i.e., interests, eccentricities, previously successful gifts). Based on that input, the recommendation software system and method determines the meaning of the entered terms and creatively discover connections to gift recommendations from the vast array of possibilities. The user may then make a selection from these recommendations. The search/recommendation engine allows the user to find gifts through connections that are not limited to previously available information on the Internet. Thus, interests can be connected to buying behavior by relating terms to respective items. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188656 | DETERMINING COST OPTIMIZATION BASED ON CONSTRAINTS ON SKI-RENTAL PROBLEMS - A constrained ski-rental problem is defined. In the constrained ski-rental problem, a determination as to whether a first action having a first cost associated therewith or a second action having a second cost associated therewith is more cost effective is performed based on moment information associated with events related to the first action or the second action. The moment information may include a moment of the occurrences distribution of events related to the first and second actions. The moment information may include a moment of a number of occurrences of events related to the first and second actions, a moment of the inter-event times of occurrences of events related to the first and second actions, or the like. The moment information may include a first moment, a second moment, or the like. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188657 | Establishing Customer Attributes - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing a customer's identity via a customer identity server. In operation, customer information is received and evaluated for customer attributes and attribute values. The user is invited to provide information related to the customer's identity that they would like to have established with a merchant. Once a customer identity has been established the methods and systems may provide recommendations based on the customer identity. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195370 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEEDBACK ASSOCIATED WITH AN ELECTRONIC SHOPPING-CART - Methods and systems relating to feedback associated with an electronic shopping-cart are described. In some embodiments, item information associated with an item is received from a first user. The item is added to an electronic shopping-cart. A request to share the electronic shopping-cart with a second user is received. Shopping-cart information associated with the electronic shopping-cart is sent to the second user. Feedback from the second user is received. The feedback corresponds to the item in the electronic shopping-cart. The feedback is sent to the first user. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195371 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a recommendation unit configured to generate a recommendation information for a target user based on a preference information of at least one associated person having a social relationship through a communication service or a locational relationship with the target user, and a communication interface configured to provide the generated recommendation information to be sent to the target user. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201025 | PERSONALIZED CUSTOMER SHOPPING EXPERIENCE - A system and method that improves and enhances the customer's in-store shopping experience. The consumer product of purchase interest or intent to buy expresses (or self-announces via technology) it's match (or fit based on known or understood buying habits, customer taste, tendencies, etc) against the customer preferences during an in-store shopping experience. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201026 | PERSONALIZED CUSTOMER SHOPPING EXPERIENCE - A method that improves and enhances the customer's in-store shopping experience. The consumer product of purchase interest or intent to buy expresses (or self-announces via technology) it's match (or fit based on known or understood buying habits, customer taste, tendencies, etc) against the customer preferences during an in-store shopping experience. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201027 | RE-RANKING ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON IMAGE FEATURE DATA - An apparatus and method to adjust item recommendations are disclosed herein. A first image attribute of a query image is compared to a second image attribute of each of a plurality of inventory images of a plurality of inventory items to identify the inventory items similar to the query image. Item recommendations comprising the identified inventory items in a first listing order are provided for display at a remote device. A second listing order of the identified inventory items is determined based on a user preference for a particular one of the identified inventory items. At least the second listing order is provided to the remote device for re-display of the item recommendations in accordance with the second listing order. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201028 | COMPLEMENTARY ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS USING IMAGE FEATURE DATA - An apparatus and method to facilitate finding complementary recommendations are disclosed herein. One or more fashion trend or pleasing color combination rules are determined based on data obtained from one or more sources. One or more template images and rule triggers corresponding to the fashion trend or pleasing color combination rules are generated, each of the rule triggers associated with at least one of the template images. A processor compares a first image attribute of a particular one of the template images to a second image attribute of each of a plurality of inventory images corresponding to the plurality of inventory items to identify the inventory items complementary to the query image. The particular one of the template images is selected based on the rule trigger corresponding to the particular one of the template images being applicable for a query image. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207609 | GENERATING AND MAINTAINING A LIST OF PRODUCTS DESIRED BY A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER - A social networking system associates a wish list with a user's profile on the system. Additional users connected to the user may add products to the user to the user's wish list. The user is notified of products added to its wish list, allowing the user to approve or reject addition of the products to its wish list. Allowing other users to add products to a user's wish list creates a dialog between users around the added products. Users may also comment on products presented via a wish list page, allowing conversations to be created between users about various products on a user's wish list, enabling further conversation between users. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207610 | BUYER INTERFACE FOR A GIFT TRANSACTION SYSTEM - A gift transaction system with a buyer interface is disclosed. The buyer interface facilitates personalization by a buyer of a gift package to send to a recipient. A method of operating a gift transaction system with the buyer interface includes: determining gift intent of a buyer account to send a gift item in a gift transaction; generating a buyer gift interface to receive a recipient contact entry of a recipient in response to the determined gift intent; generating an interactive gift notification to the recipient contact entry to receive a confirmation of the gift transaction; and sending a notification to a merchant store to ship a gift package to the recipient in response to receiving the confirmation. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214589 | Employing A Shopping List On A Hand-Held Communications Device At A Retailer - A computer-implemented process is described and includes employing a shopping list that is accessible on a hand-held communications device, the shopping list including desired items for purchasing from a retailer. The hand-held communications device is employed at the retailer to capture information associated with a selected product. The information associated with the selected product is compared with the desired items contained on the shopping list accessible to the hand-held communications device. Upon correlating the selected product with one of the desired items contained on the shopping list, the shopping list is updated to indicate the desired item has been acquired. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214590 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING SUBSTITUTES FOR PRODUCTS INDICATED IN AN ELECTRONIC SHOPPING LIST - Health related attributes of a consumable product can be used to propose substitutes for the product. A computer-implemented method to propose substitutes includes receiving from a user an original shopping list comprising the consumable product, determining health related attributes for the product, generating a proposed healthy choice substitute for the product based upon the health related attributes, and displaying the proposed healthy choice substitute to the user. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE A PRODUCT DISPLAY IN A BUSINESS - A system, method and article of manufacture for displaying products in association with a merchant business. The merchant is provided with code, such as code for a carousel-like display, for integration with the merchant's business, for displaying products. The merchant integrates the code into his or her business, such as by installing the code on the merchant's website. A listing of the products offered by the merchant is received by an ecommerce system. Upon query related to a product offered by the merchant, a listing of products related to the queried product is provided by an ecommerce system. Those related products are compared to the products offered by the merchant. The related products that are not the same as or equivalent to products offered by the merchant are communicated for display in association with the merchant's business by the code. The displayed related products may be purchased from sellers on the ecommerce system via the business. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214592 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE RECOMMENDATION - A technical solution for online recommendation. Determining, according to the first user's behaviors in the online decision process, which phase of the online decision process the first user is presented in, wherein the online decision process is divided into a plurality of phases depending on a decision conversion rate; selecting recommended items to be provided to the first user according to one or more second users' historical behavior records, wherein the one or more second users are users who are presented in one or more phases having a higher decision conversion rate than the determined phase. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214593 | Custom Fitting Tools - Methods, systems, and devices, including computer program products, for custom fitting services are disclosed. Relevant expert rules for product selection and fit are applied to a customer's unique physical characteristics as well as skill level in an applicable sport. A disclosed custom fitting tool is operable to show manufacturer photos or video assets of one or more products while a customer is trying on or comparing products in a retail store. Custom e-mail or text messages may be sent directly from the tool itself. The tool may also advantageously include a strike rate process, a personalized smart product recommendations process, and a codification process. The disclosed inventions advantageously increase sales, increase customer satisfaction, increase upsells, allow for more efficient use of a salesperson's and customer's time, and provide for other benefits. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214594 | System and Method for Integrated Recommendations - A recommendation appliance, system and method are provided for generating and deploying additional web page content or functionality (e.g., retail recommendations) to an existing web page server system. For example, the present invention may be embodied as a reverse proxy server that is inserted as an intermediate network node between a web server and the end users accessing the web server. In this position, the recommendation appliance can introduce recommendation messages to web pages generated by the web server without requiring any modification to the code or architecture of the web server. In addition, the appliance may separately track the transaction activities of end users who receive recommendation messages and the transaction activities of end users who do not receive recommendation messages, so that a comparison of the effectiveness of the recommendations may efficiently be demonstrated without requiring any modification to the code or architecture of the web server. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CURATOR RECOMMENDED SALE OF COMMODITIES - The present disclosure relates to a curator recommended sale system and method. The curator recommended sale system includes a commodity list generation unit configured to receive commodities for sale of a vendor from a vendor terminal, generate a list of the commodities for sale, receive recommended commodities by a curator based on the list of commodities for sale from a curator terminal, and generate a list of the recommended commodities, a payment unit configured to process payment on a recommendation commodity included in the list of recommended commodities when a purchase request for the recommendation commodity is received from the terminal of a purchaser selecting the curator, and a profit share unit configured to pay a commission to the curator according to sales of the recommendation commodity. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222612 | IMAGE-RELATED METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS - A user captures an image of a retail product with a smartphone. Product recommendations associated with the retail product are provided to the smartphone. One claim recites a method comprising: receiving first imagery captured by a smartphone camera, the first imagery representing a first retail product located at a retail location, and presenting the first imagery on a screen of the smartphone; providing the first imagery to a processor to produce fingerprint data therefrom, the fingerprint data being utilized to identify the first retail product; receiving second imagery representing a second retail product, identified as a product recommendation associated with the first retail product, the second imagery being sourced from a source different than the smartphone camera; presenting, on the screen of the smartphone, the second imagery; receiving user input via a touch screen of the smartphone; as a consequence of said user input, initiating an action. Of course, a great variety of other claims, features and arrangements are also detailed. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222613 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING OBJECT FOR SERVICE OF SERVICE PROVIDER - A server and method of providing an object for accessing a service of a service provider are provided. The server includes a context model providing unit configured to provide to the service provider at least one context model that is associated with the service, which is used by a device or a user, and a situation in which the device or the user uses the service; a purchase request receiving unit configured to receive a purchase request submitted by the service provider for a context model which is selected from among the at least one context model; and an object generation unit configured to generate the object for accessing the service of the service provider. The generated object is matched with the context model associated with the purchase request received from the service provider. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222614 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTING ITEMS IN A SHOPPING CART BY CARBON FOOTPRINT - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium being operable to provide a shopping cart for a shopper, and segment items in the shopping cart based on the carbon footprint associated with each item. Additionally, the method may include displaying substitute or complementary items in the shopping cart for selection by the user to reduce total carbon values, and awarding carbon certificates. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222615 | SERVICES FOR ENABLING USERS TO SHARE INFORMATION REGARDING E-COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS - Various computer-implemented services are disclosed for assisting users in selecting items from an electronic catalog, and for selecting merchants with which to conduct transactions. One such service enables users to share information about their respective purchases with other users. Another service enables users to share information regarding the merchants with which they have conducted transactions. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236756 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods for presenting recommendations on a computing device using a recommendation client that can execute non-natively within a runtime environment provided by an application platform application and/or within a web browser application are illustrated. In one embodiment, a method for presenting recommended applications includes transmitting application recommendation request data using a recommendation client, obtaining application recommendation data based on the transmitted application recommendation request data using the recommendation client, presenting the application recommendation data within a computing environment generated by the operating system of the recommendation client, receiving interaction data indicative of at least one interaction with the application recommendation data using the recommendation client, recording outcome information based on the received interaction data using the recommendation client, and transmitting the recorded outcome information using the recommendation client. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236757 | System and Method for Conducting Sales - Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for conducting sales. A system configured to practice the method receives an inquiry with at least one parameter from a user associated with a sale of an item. The system identifies one or more discount items that satisfy the inquiry and filters the one or more discount items based on a time-sensitive sales opacity scale. The system identifies comparable items for each discount item at nondiscount rates dynamically using real-time data and presents one or more comparable groups to the user, each comparable group including one filtered discount item and respective comparable items. Then the system advances the sale of the discount item based on user acceptance of one of the presented one or more comparable groups. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244426 | METHOD FOR GENERATING USER PROFILES - A recommendation for a product based on a user profile and product affinity is discussed. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244427 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING USER PROFILES - A recommendation for a product based on a user profile and product affinity is discussed. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244428 | DYNAMIC PRESENTATION OF RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS TO USERS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates interaction with a user. During operation, the system obtains a set of features associated with one or more products recommended for the user. Next, the system provides an editor for modifying the features and obtains one or more customizations to the features through the editor. Finally, the system displays the features and the customizations to the user without requiring modification to source code associated with displaying the features to the user. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244429 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A MULTIMEDIA COMMERCE SERVICE - A multimedia commerce brand offering environment is disclosed. Herein, a method for processing a multimedia commerce service includes the steps of storing service usage pattern data of a user using the multimedia commerce service, sensing a user action from a CPE of the user using the multimedia commerce service, comparing the sensed user action with the stored service usage pattern data of the user, extracting service usage pattern data of the user in accordance with the user action, and providing recommended commerce service information respective to the extracted service usage pattern data of the user. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244430 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPRAISING A COLLECTION OF PRODUCTS - A system and method for a librarian facilitates appraising the value of all or selected products in a collection of products. The collection of products may be part of a library that includes one or more photographic images of the library, and an inventory of the products revealed in those images. The librarian facilitates appraising the value of products in the collection with reference to the images. Appraisals may be automatically updated, and users notified in accordance with user notification preferences. An automated referral may be provided to the user to sell all or selected ones of the appraised inventory of products, individually or together. An extended appraisal may be provided to facilitate enhancing the value of a collection in the library. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMERS WITH PERSONALIZED INFORMATION ABOUT PRODUCTS - Embodiments of the invention may provide a personalized fit prediction to a particular consumer about a particular product. Personalization of the fit prediction may be accomplished by processing various types of data, including data about consumers, products, and previous purchases by consumers. For example, this data may be used to generate a model (e.g., set of rules), which can then be applied to predict whether and/or how well a particular product will suit a particular consumer. | 08-28-2014 |
20140258021 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK ACTIVITY - A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for providing gift recommendations based on social network activity of the gift recipient. A gift recommendation request identifying a gift recipient is received. In response to receiving the request, coincident user data describing an activity of the gift recipient is accessed from at least one social network. At least one gift recommendation is determined based in part on the coincident user data. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258022 | Inferred Budget - Methods and systems are provided for providing purchase recommendations and a budget to a user. The purchase recommendations can be for discretionary products for the user or for gifts for others. The purchase recommendations and the budget can be based upon the amount of discretionary money available for the user to make such purchases and for whom the purchases are to be made. The purchase recommendations and the budget can be further based upon purchase histories, wish lists, and calendars. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258023 | Intelligent Personal Finance Tracking Engine - A system may include a processor coupled to a memory. The processor is capable of determining a first goal adjustment based at least in part upon inflow information, outflow information, financial information, product information, and a customer goal. The processor is also operable to determine a second goal adjustment based at least in part upon inflow information, outflow information, financial information, product information, and a customer goal. Finally, the processor is operable to communicate the first goal adjustment and the second goal adjustment, using a network interface, to the customer. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258024 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF IDENTIFYING A GROUP OF ITEMS FOR ATTAINING A TARGETED SALES AMOUNT - A system receives a revenue target from a user, and receives a plurality of images. Each image contains an item. The system identifies a plurality of items from the plurality of images. The system searches a database to determine a selling price estimate for each item of the plurality of items, and generates a proposed combination of items to sell based, at least in part, on price estimates for the proposed combination of items adding up to at least the revenue target. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258025 | DIGITAL CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - In order to recommend digital content to be delivered via a telecommunications network (RT) to a communication terminal (TC), a device (DRA) receives a first list (L1) of digital content produced from a recommendation system (SR) based on a user's profile, each piece of digital content on the list being associated with an estimate of the user's degree of interest, and receives cost estimates respectively associated with the deliveries of digital content included in the first list from another device (DAC), the cost being representative of resources of the telecommunications network needed to deliver the digital content from a content source (SC) to the communication terminal. The device (DRA) assigns a score to each piece of digital content based on the estimate of the degree of interest associated with the digital content and the estimate of the cost associated with the delivery of digital content, and generates a second list (L2) of digital content based on the scores assigned to the digital content on the first list (L1) before transmitting the second list to the communication terminal. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS - A method of providing recommendations is disclosed and includes receiving a selection of an offering via an online site. The method also includes outputting a detail page related to the offering via the online site. The detail page includes a first selectable indicator corresponding to a social network of a visitor and a second selectable indicator corresponding to unfiltered content. The method also includes outputting at least one recommendation via the detail page. Each recommendation is associated with a member of the social network when input received via the online site indicates a selection of the first selectable indicator. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258027 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM AND MEDIA RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO GROUPS OF USERS - The recommender system uses a processing system configured to determine recommendation scores using a collaborative rating process. Collaborative rating process involves determining correlations between ratings for media items provided by a current user for which a recommendation score has to be computed and by further users, and computing recommendation scores from ratings for other media items from ratings from the further users, dependent on the correlation. To handle groups, information is determined by identifying a plurality of users is determined that concurrently use a user terminal, and group correlation values for use in the collaborative rating process are computed from rating values from individual ones of the users in the group. Synthetic rating values for the group may be computed from a sum of rating values of the members and then used to compute the correlation. The computation of the group correlation is implemented using a user interface system that encrypts information the identity of the users and transmits that information to a processing system with a server and a privacy service provider system. The server and a privacy service provider system use a secure multi-party computation protocol to perform a distributed computation of the group correlation. | 09-11-2014 |
20140279184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTELLIGENTLY RECOMMENDING BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA - A system and method of intelligently recommending items based on social media communications are provided. A communication in a first format is intercepted from a first service. An intent to transact is then detected within the communication. A recommendation engine can then be used to identify one or more items available at an ecommerce service, the one or more items related to the intent to transact within the communication. Then a reply communication can be posted to the first service in the first format, with the reply communication including the one or more identified items. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING MERCHANTS - A computer system for recommending merchants to a candidate cardholder is provided. The computer system includes a memory device in communication with a processor. The processor is programmed to receive transaction information for a plurality of cardholders from a payment network. The transaction information includes data relating to purchases made by the cardholders at a plurality of merchants, the purchases satisfying a first criteria. The processor receives candidate cardholder preference information for at least one of the merchants input by the candidate cardholder. The computer system determines a merchant rank for each merchant based on the received transaction information and the candidate cardholder preference information, and determines a neutral merchant rank for each merchant based on the received transaction information and neutral cardholder preferences of the plurality of cardholders. The computer system also determines a merchant score for each of the plurality of merchants by comparing the merchant rank to the neutral merchant rank. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279186 | DIGITAL WARDROBE WITH RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - Wearable objects purchased by a user are added to a digital wardrobe associated with the user. The user can create and store various outfits from the contents of the digital wardrobe. A recommender system also accesses the digital wardrobe and provides recommendations of wearable items personalized to the user's tastes. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279187 | GIFTING ENABLED BY INTEGRATION OF COMMERCE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS - An approach to generate and execute an e-commerce gift offer for a social network contact as a function of integrating social network data into a web site offering goods or services for sale within a network computing environment is provided. In response to the user selecting an item offered for sale by the web site, aspects search personal data associated with the user that is acquired from a different, social network web site to determine an indication that another user listed within the acquired personal data has an interest in also acquiring the selected item, and present an offer to the user to select the item for an additional gift purchase for such other user as a recipient. Further aspects use the acquired personal data to narrow down retailers to those that provide delivery service to a current residence of the other user for execution of the gift purchase. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279188 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING QUANTITIES OF PREVIOUSLY ORDERED PRODUCT TO REPEAT USERS OF A WEBSITE - A system can store a wide variety of information regarding a user's interactions with a website in a first web browsing session. In particular, the information may include a quantity of a product that the user ordered in the first web browsing session. When the user returns to the website to reorder the product in a second web browsing session, the system may display the quantity of the product that the user previously ordered without requiring the user to navigate to and review an order history webpage. The system may display such information regarding the quantity of previously ordered product in a user interface element that appears next to a quantity input box associated with the product. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279189 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND RECOMMENDING RELEVANT PRODUCTS - Techniques for recommending similar products are disclosed herein. The method of recommending similar products includes receiving a positive input from a user, the positive input indicating that the user accepts that a first product is similar to a second product; determining, by a database, one or more specification keys of the first product that a database record of the second product contain; for each of the specification keys, increasing a weight counter for the specification key in response to the positive input; calculating a closeness score between the first and second products based on values of the specification keys of the first product, values of the specification keys of the second product, and weight counters for the specification keys; and recommending the first product as a replacement of the second product based on the closeness score. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279190 | RECOMMENDED CONTENT GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION - A system to receive external data from one or more data sources, process the external data, determine available items of a first client, and retrieve user transactions associated with a targeted user. User attributes of the targeted user and item attributes of the available items are paired and the mean purchasing frequency for each of the pairs is determined. Global transactions of a population of users are analyzed to determine the standard deviation and a global mean purchasing frequency. A relevance score for each user attribute and item attribute pair is calculated. The item relevance score for each available item is determined based on the relevance score for each of the user attribute and item attribute pairs. Available items of the first client are selected based upon calculated relevance scores. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279191 | CHECKOUT AND/OR ORDERING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed provide various enhancements and/or improvements to the conventional shopping process used by brick-and-mortar stores. In some embodiments, a customer may use a mobile computing device, such as a smart phone, to select and pay for items in a brick-and-mortar store. Such shopping process may permit the customer to purchase numerous items without the using of shopping basket or a wheeled shopping cart. The shopping process may further permit the customer to pay for items and leave the store with such items without waiting in a checkout line. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279192 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZATION OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE - The present disclosure relates to automated or computerized devices and methods for shopping. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279193 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS INCORPORATING SECONDARY SOURCES OF INFORMATION - A system and method provides product/service recommendations by rendering and analyzing content on webpages that are linked to on a user's personal webpage. In this manner, the system and method compiles a more complete view of the user's interest and preferences, thus providing more effective and finely-attuned user recommendations. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279194 | SKU-DRIVEN APPAREL SIZE DETERMINATION FOR CARDHOLDERS - Repositories of apparel purchase data combined with payment card data can be used to determine accurate cardholder apparel sizes by examining their historical clothing purchases. Using these profiles to identify cardholders with similar figures, and their purchases to extrapolate what sizes to purchase in as yet unpurchased items. The present method can be implemented on an e-commerce platform or in brick & mortar locations, for example as a smartphone app with barcode scanner. Shopping becomes more efficient for cardholders, the retailer sees increased throughput, and returns for size are reduced. No effort by customer is needed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279195 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND RECOMMENDING RELEVANT PRODUCTS - Techniques for a product search grid are disclosed herein. The method for presenting a grid includes receiving data in association with a plurality of products from one or more merchant websites; presenting a data grid including cells based on the data, wherein each cell of the cells represents a product of the products or a replacement of a product of the products; displaying information regarding the products or the replacements of the products in the cells; and updating the contents of cells of the data grid automatically in real time in response to new data received from the merchant websites. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279196 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SPATIALLY SEGMENTED RECOMMENDATIONS - In certain implementations, data is spatially segmented into a variety of grids having particular keyed location data. Items of interest located within the boundaries of each grid are identified and stored in association with the grid location information. Data with respect to venue attributes is encoded and stored in association with corresponding grid location data. The system will identify a grid location based on a recommendation request or based on the user location and will generate a list of items of interest in that location and neighboring locations. This information is filtered based on the particularities of the user request to form a final filter set. User attribute weights are then applied to the final filter set to determine an overall score for each item of interest. Items of interest are then recommended to the user based on their overall score. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279197 | ENHANCING REVENUE OF A RETAILER BY MAKING A RECOMMENDATION TO A CUSTOMER - A retailer's revenue may be enhanced by recommending items in context of a specific collection built for a customer's specific preferences. Customer input that pertains to their previously purchased items and future preferences is received. The input that pertains to the customer is analyzed. A recommendation for the customer is dynamically generated that includes a collection of coordinated items that provides a personalized ensemble based on the input. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279198 | PERSON-TO-PERSON ITEM RECOMMENDATION WITH DECLINE - A system that allows individuals to maintain lists of items of interest in an account, such as books, restaurants, hotels, clothes, etc. The system allows an individual to share an item in a list with another individual. When an individual wishes to share an item, the system may generate a share message to be sent by a selected method to a recipient. The share message may include a link for allowing the recipient to view the item on the system and provide a mechanism for allowing the recipient to accept or decline the share. The acceptance or, in particular, the rejection of the share establishes a positive or negative relationship between each individual and the item. The sharing of Items between individuals can be temporally and geographically mapped to identify patterns of interest, the value of an item to one or more people, or the strength of the bond between two or more people. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279199 | Generating Recommendations Based On Hospitality Customer Feedback - Method, system, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed for generating recommendations to hospitality customers. Defining steps include enabling a customer to select a particular business from among one or more businesses at a mobile device utilized by the customer, configuring the customer's mobile device to receive a recommendation from the customer, and providing the recommendation to a user at the particular business for review, wherein the recommendation is selectable for public review by potential customers requesting information about the particular business. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279200 | DESTINATION SHOPPING SYSTEM - Techniques for facilitating a shopping experience based on a passenger's destination are described. According to various embodiments, a destination location of a passenger on a vehicle is determined. Contextual electronic content is then selected, based on the destination location of the passenger. Thereafter, the contextual electronic content is displayed via a user interface on a vehicle passenger seat display screen associated with the passenger or on the passenger's mobile device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279201 | ASSESSMENT OF BEST FIT CLOUD DEPLOYMENT INFRASTRUCTURES - A system configured to facilitate selling hybrid cloud services comprises a plurality of user interface structures each coupled to an information processor. A first user interface structure is configured to request information characterizing deployment of an application within a current operational infrastructure. A second user interface structure is configured to display a recommended deployment infrastructure supporting migration of the application thereto. A third user interface structure is configured to display information characterizing migration of the application to the recommended deployment infrastructure. The information processor is configured to receive the current application deployment characterizing information from the first user interface structure, to determine the recommended deployment infrastructure using at least a portion of the current application deployment characterizing information, and to determine the information characterizing migration of the application to the recommended deployment infrastructure using at least a portion of the current application deployment. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279202 | Recommendations Based Upon Explicit User Similarity - A system and method for providing recommendations to individuals on a social network, in which the recommendations include information indicating the similarity of the individuals to one another, to aid the individuals in judging the degree to which the opinions of the others are applicable to the themselves. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279203 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS WITH RESPONDENT DIRECTED BREEDING - A method comprises displaying visual representations of a plurality of product alternatives each including at least one attribute variant to a respondent, receiving from the respondent an indication of a preferred one of the plurality of product alternatives, transmitting a request to the respondent to identify at least one attribute variant of a non-preferred product alternative that is preferred by the respondent to the corresponding attribute variant of the preferred one of the plurality of product alternatives and receiving a response from the respondent identifying at least one attribute variant of a non-preferred product alternative that is preferred by the respondent to the corresponding attribute variant of the preferred one of the plurality of product alternatives. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279204 | RECURRING TRANSACTIONS FOR PURCHASES - The invention provides a method for identifying recurring products and/or transactions. A record of purchases of a user is reviewed, and the record includes purchases from one or more retailers. The record is stored in a temporary or activated account for the user. A recurring pattern of the purchases from the stored record is identified. A recommendation to initiate a transaction based on the identified recurring pattern is provided. The method further receives a confirmation to the provided recommendation. Further facilitates a future easier purchase based on recurring pattern. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279205 | DATE REMINDER SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS - A computer system for providing date reminders and gift recommendations is disclosed. The system receives event, purchase history, and social network data associated with a gift recipient (e.g., a first user). Based on the social network data, the system determines that the gift recipient is connected to a notification recipient (e.g., a second user) on a social network (e.g., the gift recipient and the notification recipient are “friends” on Facebook® or “connected” on) LinkedIN®. The system sends a notification to the notification recipient (e.g., via the social network) of a special event (e.g., a birthday) of the gift recipient based on the event data and also recommends gifts for the gift recipient based, at least in part, on the purchase history data. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279206 | Sales Support System for Proposing Product to Customer - A sales support system includes: an equipment use information receiving unit configured to receive equipment use information relating to equipment used by a customer; a user authorization unit configured to authorize a user; a user product price management unit configured to manage a price of a product associated with the user; a customer product price determination unit configured to determine the price of the product managed by the user product price management unit associated with the user authorized by the user authorization unit as the price of the product for the customer; and a product proposal information generation unit configured to generate product proposal information for proposing a product suitable for the customer, on the basis of the equipment use information received by the equipment use information receiving unit, and the price of the product for the customer determined by the customer product price determination unit. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279207 | JOINT GIFT REGISTRY - Various embodiments provide a system and method that enables negotiation, creation, and distributed fulfillment of joint gift registries supporting enhanced social interaction among registrants and prospective purchasers. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279208 | ELECTRONIC SHOPPING SYSTEM AND SERVICE - Systems and methods are described for providing an electronic shopping system/service. A computer server for providing an electronic shopping service includes a purchase predictive data collector configured to collect purchase predictive data of a user, a product purchase interval predictor configured to predict a product purchase interval of a product for the user at least partially based on the purchase predictive data of the user, and a product recommender configured to recommend additional products to the user at least partially based on the purchase predictive data of the user and to provide data analytics and shopper marketing to retailers, wholesalers, or consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279209 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an information processing system, method, and program which are capable of presenting a more persuasive recommendation reason. When a music CD meeting a user's preference is selected by a server apparatus, a recommendation screen is displayed onto the display of the user apparatus. The detailed information | 09-18-2014 |
20140289069 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING HOME DECOR ITEMS BASED ON AN IMAGE OF A ROOM - A method, system, and article of manufacture for recommending items for a room. An image of a room is received, a box image is fitted to the image of the room. Information is extracted from the fitted box image and is used for recommending items for the room. The image is a color image and extracting information is done by extracting color histograms from the fitted box image. The color histograms are used to determine items that match the color scheme of the room, the lighting of the room, and/or the decorating style of the room. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289070 | BUYER-SELLER MATCHING METHOD - An inventive two-tiered buyer-seller matching method directed to property transactions is disclosed herein. The inventive method matches buyers that are recruited on an internet website to list criteria for desired real estate properties. Sellers of property are similarly recruited to list the property. In a first matching tier, a cohort of matched buyers is chosen by matching basic property descriptors entered by buyers and sellers. As a further refinement to the first tier of the matching process, a second tier function of the inventive method ranks individual buyers in the cohort by the overall importance of the selected property features that are common to that buyer's choices and to the seller. A list comprising the cohort of buyers ordered by the ranking score is then presented to the seller. In this manner, the seller is provided with a knowledge of which buyers would potentially be most interested in the property for sale, and is thereby provided with a basis upon which one or more of high potential buyers may be contacted with an offer to sell. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289071 | AUTOMATIC PRODUCT GROUPINGS FOR MERCHANDISING - Disclosed are various embodiments for defining subcategories of items to be used in merchandising. The subcategories may be defined on the basis of item data and/or sales data for the items. Based on a distribution of the items in accordance with one or more of the item and/or sales data, implicit groups or subcategories can be identified and selected for merchandising purposes. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297455 | ROUTINE SUGGESTION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing routine suggestions include receiving a plurality of user activity data associated with locations within a home location area of a user at a plurality of different times. A subset of the plurality of user activity data is determined to include a location type and a reoccurring time period. A routine identifier is then provided to the user that includes the location type and a plurality of attributes associated with the location type. Routine details that rank the plurality of attributes associated with the location type are then received. A confirmed routine is then associated with the user that includes the location type, the reoccurring time period, and the ranked plurality of attributes. The confirmed routine may then be used to provide routine suggestions that suggest locations to the user to continue with their routines when they are away from the home location area. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297456 | Methods and Systems for Dynamic and Embeddable Storefront Widget - Methods and systems for extracting and displaying one or more products on a virtual storefront embedded in a topical community web page are disclosed. The displayed products may then be purchased by a user or a community member or a member of the group or forum directly at the virtual storefront. The community web page is related to a particular interest or a context and hosts information or media related to that particular context. The systems and methods disclosed herein may facilitate the community web page administrator, community web page owner, or any other person in similar capacity to either select one or more products statically or the products are dynamically extracted from one or more of a connected storefront or a marketplace or both. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297457 | Systems and Methods for Product Recommendation Refinement in Topic-Based Virtual Storefronts - Systems and methods for product recommendation refinement in a topic-based virtual storefront embedded in a topical community web page. The systems and methods facilitate continuous monitoring of user activity and community member activity in the topic-based virtual storefront based on which one or more weighted keywords are derived. A topic set containing various weighted keywords is iteratively configured for extracting and ordering one or more products that are extracted from a plurality of heterogeneous sources. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297458 | Systems and Methods for Marketplace Catalogue Population - Methods and Systems for displaying product recommendations at a virtual storefront by receiving product recommendations from a plurality of heterogeneous sources. The source servers send the product recommendations from their end that are then normalized and refined by a recommendation engine based on a plurality of factors ensuring that the products are presentable and sellable on the storefront. The recommendation collation is accomplished using a pipeline of stateless processors, thereby providing a highly scalable platform perfectly suited for cloud-based computational platforms. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297459 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LISTING ITEMS GLOBALLY AND REGIONALLY, AND CUSTOMIZED LISTING ACCORDING TO CURRENCY OR SHIPPING AREA - In one example embodiment, there is provided a method including presenting a listing of offerings at a website; presenting a view selection object to the user at the website; in response to receiving a selection of the view selection object, presenting an alternate view of the offerings at the website based on a predefined selection criteria. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297460 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Electronic Purchases - A server receives an electronic shopping cart from a client device. The electronic shopping cart describes an item for purchase from a merchant. The server comparison-shops to determine a different merchant offering the same or comparable item for sale. The server sends a notification to the client device describing a lower price offered by the different merchant. The server may then receive an approval to replace the item selected for purchase from the merchant with the item offered by the different merchant. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304104 | IDENTIFYING PART INTERCHANGES AT ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACES - Electronic marketplaces offer a variety of items to customers over the Internet. Where two or more items are interchangeable with or equivalent to one another, such items may be utilized in the same applications and in the same manner, and marketed and sold together as interchanges or equivalents. Such items may be identified as interchangeable with or equivalent to one another based on a qualitative or quantitative score, which may consider any available information or attributes regarding the items, and may increase or decrease over time as the confidence in a determination of interchangeability or equivalence improves or declines. Moreover, such information or attributes may be identified from any source, such as sellers, vendors or manufacturers of the items, and qualitative or quantitative scores indicative of the accuracy or reliability of such information or attributes may be assigned to such sources, as well. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304105 | VISUAL PRODUCT FEEDBACK - According to various embodiments, user goal information describing a user goal is accessed. The user goal may be assigned a target date, and the user goal may be a health-related goal or a finance-related goal. It is determined whether the purchase or consumption of a given product item either contributes or does not contribute to achieving the user goal. Thereafter, visual product feedback information indicating whether procurement of the product item contributes or does not contribute to achieving the user goal is displayed. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ATTRIBUTE-BASED USER PREFERENCES AND APPLYING THEM TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS - Embodiments provide recommendations. A set of stimuli for an item type is generated by identifying a plurality of items corresponding to the item type, a set of objective and/or subjective attributes associated with the item type, and levels corresponding to at least a portion of the set of attributes for the plurality of items. Utility functions are generated in which a given attribute in the set of attributes is associated with a weighting indicating a relative importance of given attribute to a respective simulated consumer. A set of items is selected and presented to a user. A user indication is received as to which item in the set is a most preferred item and/or which item in the set of items is a least preferred item. A utility function is selected from the plurality of utility functions. Item ranking scores are generated using the selected utility function. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304107 | WEBROOMING WITH RFID-SCANNING ROBOTS - The present invention relates to systems, methods, and devices for using RFID-tagged items for omnichannel shopping and automatically reading and locating those items. Robots for automated RFID reading are disclosed. The present invention discloses Webrooming 2.0 (WR2.0) which will offer shoppers new views and tools. WR2.0 offers shoppers a bird's eye view of equivalent items in local retail stores. WR2.0 tools empower shoppers with preemptive purchasing power: the ability to redirect their online purchases from any online web store to a local retail store. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304108 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND ACCESSING PRODUCT INFORMATION IN A DATABASE - A database system is disclosed. The database system includes a matching module configured to query a database for users which have data matching an interest of another user and to selectively grant to one or more of the users access to data of the other user based at least in part on a result of the query and on an access control list. | 10-09-2014 |
20140316934 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MANAGE USER PROFILES REGARDING USER PREFERENCES TOWARDS A CONTENT - A computer-implemented method and system to manage user profiles regarding user preferences towards a content. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324623 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes display unit; a processing unit configured to extract an object included in the input image and generate object information based on the extracted object; a communication unit configured to communicate with an external server via a network; and a controller configured to control the communication unit to transmit the object information to the server receive recommendation information generated by an analysis of the object information from the server. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324624 | WINE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer readable medium comprises instructions, which when executed by a data processor of a portable electronic device, cause the data processor to obtain a list of wines available at a commercial establishment; and identify at least one attribute associated with each wine included on the list of wines. The instructions further cause the data processor to, for each wine included on the list of wines, determine a score indicative of a likelihood that the user will purchase the wine on the basis of the at least one attribute and at least one of a characteristic associated with the user and a preference input by the user. Based on the score, the instructions further cause the data processor to identify at least one recommended wine for recommendation to the user; and present the at least one recommended wine on a display interface of the portable electronic device. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324625 | CUSTOMIZABLE FISHING LURE SYSTEM AND ACCOMPANYING APPARATUS - A customized fishing lure system having a lip and a body. The lip being adapted to provide resistance when said fishing lure is moved within water. The body having a keyway adapted to receive, engage and lock the lip. The lip being adapted to releasably engage with the body without the need of another structural element or hand-tool. The lip further having a stem portion and a protrusion portion being adapted to releasably engage within the keyway. The lip is not capable of being releasably disengaged from the body by merely apply a longitudinal tensile force to the lip. The lip is releasably engaged within the keyway by applying a rotational force no greater than 360 degrees. The lip being adapted to receive different weighted-inserts to achieve different depth of dive in water when being retrieved. | 10-30-2014 |
20140330669 | LEVERAGING READER PERFORMANCE TO PROVIDE A PUBLICATION RECOMMENDATION - A user associated with an educational institution is identified. The institution can include a curriculum. The user can be associated with a profile. The profile can include characteristics associated with the user. The characteristics can include a skill associated with the curriculum and a performance indicator associated with the skill. The skill can be a learned capacity to carry out a pre-determined result. The characteristics can be analyzed to determine a proficiency or a deficiency in the skill. The analyzing can evaluate the performance metric. An enhancement data associated with a publication within a publication repository can be determined. The enhancement data can include target skill and a target characteristic. The publication repository can be an electronic catalog and/or a physical library. The publication can be a physical media and an electronic media. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330670 | ENHANCING REVENUE OF A RETAILER BY MAKING A RECOMMENDATION TO A CUSTOMER - A retailer's revenue may be enhanced by recommending items in context of a specific collection built for a customer's specific preferences. Customer input that pertains to their previously purchased items and future preferences is received. The input that pertains to the customer is analyzed. A recommendation for the customer is dynamically generated that includes a collection of coordinated items that provides a personalized ensemble based on the input. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337160 | CONSIDERING SOCIAL INFORMATION IN GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS - Transaction data is obtained from sellers. The data identifies individuals and products or items that they have purchased from the sellers. Social network data is also obtained. It identifies a social graph for a plurality of different users. A mapping between the social graphs and the transaction data is generated to identify which items have been purchased by which individuals in the social graph of a given user. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337161 | On-Site Curation That Enables Scalable Peer Generated Content That is Visual and Inspires Discovery Anywhere - A system and method are disclosed for automating the provision of social media product recommendations in an electronic commerce environment. In various embodiments, a set of instructions is provided to configure a merchant's source web page markup language and script code to receive consolidated script code. The merchant's source web page markup language and script code is then processed to generate source web page markup content and a script code customizations, which are in turn processed with a set of recommendation script code to generate a set of consolidated script code, which is then executed by the merchant's web site to provide social media recommendations in an electronic commerce environment. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337162 | PROCESS TO DISPLAY PICKS ON PRODUCT CATEGORY PAGES - A system and method are disclosed for automating the provision of social media product recommendations in an electronic commerce environment. In various embodiments, web page data associated with a merchant's website is processed to identify a set of product category pages. In turn, data associated with the identified set of product category pages is processed to generate product category page data and data associated with a predetermined set of Pick Lists is processed to generate Pick List data. The resulting product category page data and Pick List data is then processed to generate Pick List association data, which in turn is processed to identify a subset of the set of Pick Lists that are associated with a predetermined product category page. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337163 | Forward-Looking Recommendations Using Information from a Plurality of Picks Generated by a Plurality of Users - A system and method are disclosed for automating the provision of social media product recommendations in an electronic commerce environment. A user navigates to a merchant website that has implemented the Picks System. Profile data associated with the user is collected and then processed to generate a user affinity profile, which is then used to identify a set of Pick System users that have a corresponding user affinity profile. The user then selects a product page at the merchant's website to browse. Pick Lists are identified that are associated with the set of Pick System users that have a corresponding user affinity profile and also contain a product displayed on the product page. The identified Pick Lists are then processed to generate a forward-looking recommendation Pick List, which is then provided to the user. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337164 | PICKS API WHICH FACILITATES DYNAMICALLY INJECTING CONTENT ONTO A WEB PAGE FOR SEARCH ENGINES - A system and method are disclosed automating the provision of social media product recommendations in an electronic commerce environment. A search engine submits a request for product-related content, such as a product page, to a merchant web server. In turn, the merchant web server submits a server-side request to a search engine optimization (SEO) application programming interface (API) for processing. In response, the SEO API returns Picks markup content that is associated with the requested product-related content. The merchant web server then combines the requested product-related content with the returned Picks markup content to generate a product page. The product page, which includes the dynamically injected Picks markup content, is then returned to the search engine where it is indexed. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337165 | MOBILE APPLICATION ENABLING PRODUCT DISCOVERY AND OBTAINING FEEDBACK FROM NETWORK - A system and method are disclosed automating the provision and consumption of social media product recommendations in a. mobile environment. A user enters a physical site associated with a merchant that has implemented the Pick System and initiates a mobile Pick System application on their mobile device to perform mobile device Pick List management operations. The user then uses the mobile device to provide product identification data corresponding to a product displayed at the physical site, along with a request to associate the product with a predetermined Pick List, to the Picks System. in turn the Picks System processes the product identification data and the request to associate the product with the predetermined Pick List. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337166 | INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING THE PROGRAM - An information provision device according to one embodiment includes an evaluation request unit, an evaluation registration unit, an estimation unit and a presentation unit. The evaluation request unit transmits an evaluation interface for a recipient to evaluate a given gift given to the recipient to a recipient terminal. The evaluation registration unit stores an entered evaluation as evaluation information into an evaluation storage unit. When a next giver gives a next gift to the recipient through a giver terminal, the estimation unit estimates candidate items for the next gift at least from given gifts based on evaluations indicated by the evaluation information corresponding to the recipient. The presentation unit transmits candidate information indicating the estimated candidate items to the giver terminal and thereby presents the candidate items to the next giver. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344101 | AUTOMATED GUIDANCE FOR SELECTING COMPONENTS OF AN IT SOLUTION - A computer displays a first set of components available for selection by the customer for an IT solution. The computer receives, from the customer, selection of a first component included in the first set of components. The computer determines that subsequent use of the first component requires a service. The computer identifies and displays a second set of components based on compatibility with the first component and ability to use the same service as the first component. The computer receives selection, from the customer, a second component included in the second set of components. The computer designs the IT solution to (a) include the first component and the second component and (b) share the same service during use of the first component and the second component. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344102 | Virtual Personal Shopping System - The invention relates to selecting products and/or services that meet a customer's needs. In particular, the invention relates to an automated method and system for recommending relevant products and/or services utilizing expert knowledge. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344103 | SYSTEM AND METHODFORPERSONALIZED VIDEO RECOMMENDATION BASED ON USER INTERESTS MODELING - A method is provided for personalized video recommendation based on user interests modeling. The method includes detecting a viewing activity of at least one user of a content-presentation device capable of presenting multiple programs in one or more channels, and representing user interests of the at least one user by using a topic model. The method also includes discovering the user interests from user viewing histories, and generating a personalized video list of personalized video contents. Further, the method includes recommending the personalized video contents to the at least one user; and delivering the recommended personalized video to the at least one user such that the personalized video contents are presented on the content-presentation device. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344104 | Predictive Shipping Method for E-Commerce Site - A delivery mechanism uses a recommender and prediction system to determine if a customer may want an item before he/she specifically requests such. Physical inventory ordered from an e-commerce site is thus preemptively distributed and maintained in transit. | 11-20-2014 |
20140351078 | Systems and Methods for Recommending Products - Computer-implemented systems and methods include generating, from an inventory of products for sale at a retailer, a list of recommended products corresponding to a set of product types implicated by one or more designated product categories, a total selling price of the recommended products being within a designated shopping budget. The computer-implemented systems and methods may further include displaying the list of recommended products to a user. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351079 | METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING A COMMODITY - A user inputs a request ( | 11-27-2014 |
20140358720 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO BUILD FLOWCHARTS FOR E-SHOPPING RECOMMENDATIONS - An advisor flowchart is built, which flowchart comprises a set of nodes and each node is associated with a user attribute selected from a set of user attributes in a user space, the set of attributes comprising information about users, e.g., lifestyles, interests, demographics, etc. and each node is associated with a ranking of products from a product space. The advisor flowchart may be used to make a set of recommendations available to a user, where the set of recommendations comprise one or more top-ranked products associated with the node at which the user is currently positioned. At each node, the associated user attribute is used to formulate a question that may be posed to the user. The user's answer to the question may be used to progress to another node of the advisor flowchart. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358721 | MINING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FROM QUERY REFORMULATIONS - In various example embodiments, systems and methods to mine product recommendations from query reformulation is provided. In example embodiments, a search query is mapped to a particular product. Transition data for the particular product is accessed. The transition data includes values reflecting a number of search transitions between the particular product and other products in session sets of previous queries. One or more recommendations based on the transition data is determined and provided to the user. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365331 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING WEB-BASED USER FEEDBACK - The present invention generally relates to computer and web-based shopping services and real world comparison feedback services. Specifically, this invention relates to systems and methods for providing web-based social shopping services and real world comparison feedback services whereby users can create groups based on various criteria in order to get real-time or near real-time feedback and opinions regarding online and real world purchases, potential purchases and comparisons. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372248 | CROSS-REFERENCING COMMENTS - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for cross-referencing comments. In one aspect, a method includes, identifying unstructured text in a document associated with a first product or provider, in the unstructured text, identifying, by the one or more computers, a reference to a second product or provider different from the first product or provider, determining a relationship between the first product or provider and the second product or provider based on content of the unstructured text, and providing an indication of the relationship for display on a document associated with the first product or provider or the second product or provider. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372249 | Automated Creation of Collages From a Collection of Assets - A system and method are disclosed for automating the provision of social media product recommendations in an electronic commerce environment. A user selects one or more products from one or more Pick Lists, which are a pictorial grouping of products that the user has selected, assembled and named. The user then selects a Pick Collage template, which is then populated with the selected product(s). Once populated, the Pick Collage template is processed to generate a Pick Collage, which provides a more stylized presentation of the selected product(s). Once generated, the Pick Collage is provided to a website associated with a merchant that provides the selected product(s). | 12-18-2014 |
20140372250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED CONTENT - A system and method for providing recommended content to a user. The method includes providing a Web server and receiving each of the inbound request messages from one of the Web browsers in the Web server. Selected data contained in each of the inbound request messages is recorded in a profile and associated with a user ID. The profile data includes information about entities that are related to the content accessed by each user. The method also includes analysis of a particular user's profile to identify the user's interests, identify similar users and idcntify recommended content based on the user's interests and look-a-like user interests. The method also includes automatically providing the user with access to recommended content for example, through a dashboard or window including links to the recommended content. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372251 | WEB-BASED GIFTING SOLUTION WITH BROWSABLE GIFT GALLERY AND SELECTABLE PRICE POINT - A method is disclosed for providing a gift to a recipient. The method includes providing a website on which is displayed a set of gifts and a set of selectable gift values; receiving input from a gift giver which includes (a) a designated recipient for a gift, and (b) gift criteria which includes a gift value selected by the gift giver from said set of selectable gift values; creating a URL associated with the designated recipient upon which is displayed a subset of said set of gifts that meet the gift criteria input by the gift giver; receiving, from the designated recipient, a selection of a gift from said subset of gifts; and sending the selected gift to the recipient. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379516 | CONTEXT BASED RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - A method and system for a context based search recommendations is provided. A context based search can be facilitated for the construction of cold start recommender systems. Contextual information can be mined from review texts from sources such as websites, and analyzed for common traits per context group. From this context information the most applicable reviews for the user can be provided. One embodiment provides a method for providing recommendations. The method includes the steps of preprocessing one or more reviews based on features of the one or more reviews, obtaining context information about user; and determining score for user based on obtained user context information and features of the one or more reviews. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379517 | Evaluating Benefits of a Product - Systems, methods and apparatuses for quantifying a benefit associated with use of a product or service are provided. In some examples, an entity may receive information about a company to which they are going to attempt to sell a product or service. The methods, computer-readable media and apparatuses may identify a potential improvement at the company, as well as one or more products or services to sell to the company to aid in or provide the improvement. In some examples, the methods, computer-readable media and apparatuses may quantify the impact or benefits associated with use or implementation of the product or service. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379518 | LOCALIZED LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A local library recommendation system for recommending an item available for circulation from a local library. The system includes a self checkout device for use by a patron to check out an item from the local library, the self checkout device including a processor, a display for displaying information to the patron, and an item identification component. The item identification component is configured to identify the item being checked out by the patron. The display shows a recommendation of a second item based on the identification of the item being checked out by the patron, and the second item is part of the local library's collection. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379519 | E-COMMERCE CROSS-SAMPLING PRODUCT RECOMMENDER BASED ON STATISTICS - A method of recommending products during e-commerce. A computing device including a processor implements a cross sampling recommender algorithm which includes a first statistical model is provided at a website. Responsive to receiving information via the Internet from a first customer including selection of a first product offered at the website, the algorithm automatically divides historical customer' selection information into a plurality of time ordered sub-periods of time. Using the customer' selection information and the time ordered sub-periods of time as a time covariate, logistic regressions are fit to each of a plurality of cross-sampled pairs of the plurality of products involving the first product. Using the data from the logistic regressions, cross-sampled pairs are identified which meet a slope selection criteria. A recommendation to the first customer for at least a first recommended product from the cross-sampled pairs is provided from cross-sampled pairs which meet the slope selection criteria. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379520 | DECISION MAKING CRITERIA-DRIVEN RECOMMENDATIONS - The embodiments provide a system for decision-making criteria-based recommendations. The system may include a decision engine configured to receive a request for recommendations for an option problem associated with a product or service category, and determine options among a plurality of options for the product or service category based on preference information. The preference information may include activated decision-making criteria and corresponding weight values. The corresponding weight values may represent a relative importance of each activated decision-making criterion. The decision engine may be configured to determine options among the plurality of options including calculating scores for the plurality of options based on, in part, the activated decision-making criteria and the corresponding weight values and selecting the options among the plurality of options based on the calculated scores. The decision engine may be configured to provide a display of the determined options as the recommendations for the product or service category. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379521 | ACTIVITY-BASED PERSONAL PROFILE INFERENCE - The aggregation of facts from various sources about an individual may produce an individual profile that may inform personalized services. However, a compilation of facts may be supplemented by monitoring activities of the individual and formulating inferences regarding the individual's individual details, and the confidence of such inferences. Accordingly, a device may compare the detected activities with a behavioral rule set indicating correlations between activities and inferred individual details (e.g., frequently spent weekday evenings and morning departures from a residence imply that the residence is the individual's home; frequent bicycling to work, chosen over other available modes of transportation, implies that the individual is a bicycling enthusiast) to add inferred individual details to the individual profile. Continued monitoring may enable updating based on changes to the individual details. Multiple profiles may be synchronized while respecting the individual's privacy, obtaining the individual's consent to share information, and automatically resolving information conflicts. | 12-25-2014 |
20150012378 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - A recommender system may he used to predict a user behavior that a user will give in relation to an item. In an embodiment such predictions are used to enable items to be recommended to users. For example, products may be recommended to customers, potential friends may be recommended to users of a social networking tool, organizations may be recommended to automated users or other items may be recommended to users. In an embodiment a memory stores a data structure specifying a bi-linear collaborative filtering model of user behaviors. In the embodiment an automated inference process may be applied to the data structure in order to predict a user behavior given information about a user and information about an item. For example, the user information comprises user features as well as a unique user identifier. | 01-08-2015 |
20150019373 | PROVIDING A CONSUMER ADVOCATE RECOMMENDATION UTILIZING HISTORIC PURCHASING DATA - A good selected by a shopper within a commerce session can be identified. The commerce session can be associated with a provider. The provider can be associated with a product and/or a service. The commerce session can be associated with an e-commerce Web site and a physical retail site. Historic purchase data associated with the good can be determined. The historic purchase data can be associated with the shopper. A purchase pattern for the good can be established based on at least one of the historic purchase data and a personalization profile. The personalization profile can include a user preference and/or an event data associated with an event. The event can affect the future purchasing behavior of the shopper. A recommendation based on the purchase pattern can be provided. The recommendation can benefit the purchasing behavior of the shopper. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019374 | PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO CUSTOMERS - Method, system, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed for providing recommendations to customers. Defining steps include establishing a connection with a customer's mobile device, obtaining information about the location of the customer's mobile device, determining recommended goods or services currently offered by one or more business locations, and outputting for display on the customer's mobile device a listing of the recommended goods or services navigable by category or subcategory. | 01-15-2015 |
20150025995 | GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON TRANSACTION DATA - Systems and methods of generating recommendations based on transaction data are described. A first business entity may collect transaction data corresponding to a user from at least one external source. The transaction data may comprise at least one identification of an item purchased by the user, and the external source(s) may belong to a separate business entity from the first business entity and host an account of the user. A recommendation for the user may be generated based on the collected transaction data. In some embodiments, the recommendation may comprise a recommendation to buy an item or a recommendation to sell an item. The generated recommendation may also be based on transaction data corresponding to at least one other user. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025996 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING PURCHASES - A system and method for creating and sharing e-commerce inventory among a defined on-line community via a specialized visualization and interactivity interface is presented. One embodiment comprises a network system having a client-server architecture configured for exchanging data over a network. The data exchanges may pertain to various functions, such as on-line purchases, etc., and aspects, such as managing social networks, etc., associated with the network system. The network system may include a network-based marketplace, such as an e-commerce system, where traders or users may communicate and exchange data. A recommendation engine scrapes metadata from items selected in an “art-board” and extrapolates that data to recommend other items. These recommended other items should be based-on what other users have selected from the “art-board” and paired together, as well as what other users have removed from their respective art boards. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025997 | SOCIAL COACHING SYSTEM - In example embodiments, a system and method for providing a social coaching system is provided. A coach database is maintained by the coaching system. The coach database includes a list of coaches and attributes associated with each coach on the list. A request for a coach is received. The request includes at least one goal of a consumer. A plurality of coaches specializing in achieving the at least one goal is determined. The coach may be determined by identifying a match between the attributes associated with each coach and the goals of the consumer. A recommendation indicating the plurality of coaches is provided to the consumer. A selection of the coach from the recommendation is received. The coach is then assigned to the consumer. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025998 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING PLACE - A method of receiving a recommendation of Point of Interest (POI) information from a place recommending apparatus is provided. The method includes sending a POI information recommendation request to the place recommending apparatus using sensor data and receiving a recommendation response to the POI information recommendation request from the place recommending apparatus based on user-desired environment information. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025999 | Product Selection Packaging and Method of Use Thereof - Product selection packaging for a consumer product that improves the consumer's ability to quickly sort through numerous criteria in a complex decision making process and determine whether that particular consumer product is appropriate for his or her purchase and use is disclosed. The product selection packaging, which is designed for a consumer product includes (a) an interface; and (b) at least one product selection indicia associated with the interface, wherein the selection indicia assist the consumer with determining whether or not the product is appropriate for the consumer's purchase or use. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026000 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information providing system for providing a user with information about at least one product or service corresponding to a new need due to a change in an attribute of the user by the user is provided. A receiving section ( | 01-22-2015 |
20150026001 | RECOMMENDING CONTENT INFORMATION BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - Content recommendation includes: determining a plurality of user behavior categories pertaining to a plurality of user behaviors by a plurality of users within a period of time, and a plurality of user behavior frequencies corresponding to the plurality of user behavior categories; determining whether the number of user behavior categories exceeds a preset category threshold; in the event that the number of user behavior categories exceeds the preset threshold, excluding one or more user behavior categories such that the number of remaining user behavior categories does not exceed the preset threshold; determining, based at least on the remaining user behavior categories and corresponding user behavior frequencies, user preference data comprising frequency distribution information of a plurality of pieces of content information targeted by user behaviors in the remaining user behavior categories; and recommending content information to a user based on the user preference data. | 01-22-2015 |
20150032565 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING MERCHANTS - A computer system for recommending merchants to a candidate consumer is provided. The computer system includes a memory device in communication with a processor. The processor is programmed to collect transaction information for transactions between a plurality of payment cardholders and a plurality of merchants over a predetermined time period. The transaction information includes a merchant identifier associated with each transaction. The processor generates a list of cardholders based on the transaction information. The cardholder list includes a residential zip code associated with each cardholder. The processor then determine a total number of transactions and a number of local and unique cardholders for each merchant identifier based, at least in part, on the transaction information and/or the cardholder residential zip codes. Based on the total number of transactions and the number of local and unique cardholders, the processor then generates a list of recommended merchants. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032566 | PROVIDING COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS - Providing country-specific recommendations for selling an item including detecting the listing of an item that is being listed for sale by a seller in a first country. Responsive to the detecting, determining information to be added to the listing in respect of a possible sale of the item in a second country, and informing the seller of the determined information. The determined information may be obtained using a data analytics method that works on one or more historical data logs to mine information relating to factors that may aid or improve sale of the item in the second country. The determined information may also be determined using a data analytics method that works on one or more historical data logs to mine information that indicates that it is attractive to list the item for sale in the second country. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039461 | OMNICHANNEL RETAILING - A device may determine its location within a store and display the location on a map of the store. A user may provide a shopping list to the device. The device may then display the location of desired items on the map of the store. When an item is located in multiple locations, the device may display one or more of the locations for the item. The device may suggest a route through the store by which the user can find all of the items on the shopping list. The device may recommend products to the user based on items near the device, items on the shopping list, or items identified by the user. The device may have the ability to identify items. The device may communicate with the server to gather information about an identified item. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039462 | E-Wallet Store Injection Search Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The E-WALLET STORE INJECTION SEARCH APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“SIS”) transform aggregated automated shopping lists and user location data using SIS components into automated shopping item availability messages and merchant location navigation responses. In some implementations, the disclosure provides a processor-implemented method of providing an automated store injection search service. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046281 | PRODUCT SUGGESTIONS FOR RELATED ITEMS - Techniques for providing improved product suggestions for related items are described. According to various embodiments, a product listing webpage associated with a retailer website that describes a specific product may be crawled, the specific product being included in a product inventory of the retailer website. Thereafter, product relations information associated with the specific product may be identified in the product listing webpage, the product relations information describing a group of one or more additional products in the product inventory having a particular relationship with the specific product. The product relations information may then be transposed to a second product inventory associated with a second retailer. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052001 | USER-SPECIFIC SEAT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COMMON INTERESTS - Computing systems and methods for purchasing tickets and attending ticketed events are disclosed. A computing system includes one or more memory device or storage components adapted to store user information regarding users of the computing system as well as event information regarding upcoming ticketed events, and one or more processors for conducting activities regarding ticketing. Such activities can include displaying information regarding a ticketed event, accepting a user input regarding search terms or preferences for the ticketed event, comparing the user input to known information regarding past ticket purchases for that ticketed event, and recommending specific tickets to the user based upon the comparison. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052002 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROGRAMATICALLY CLASSIFYING TEXT USING TOPIC CLASSIFICATION - Systems and methods for programmatically classifying text are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a system including circuitry configured to programmatically classify a block of text. For example, the circuitry may be configured to identify topics associated with the block of text and identify one or more categories for each of the topics. The circuitry may be further configured to determine unique categories across the one or more categories for each of the topics. For each unique category, an actual category frequency may be determined based on a number of times each of the topics in the block of text is associated with the unique category. The circuitry may be further configured to associate a unique category with the block of text based on the actual category frequency for each the unique category and one or more other actual category frequencies for one or more other unique categories. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052003 | Providing Personalized Item Recommendations Using Scalable Matrix Factorization With Randomness - Some embodiments include a method of providing personalized item recommendations using scalable matrix factorization with randomness. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052004 | SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING CLOTHING OUTFITS FOR A USER - A system is disclosed for assisting a person in selecting clothing and accessory outfits for various situations. A plurality of card members display various reference characters having sample clothing outfit combinations and a plurality of accessory options are provided. A website extension is available to increase a user's access to updated fashion information regarding accessory option combinations as well as cost and source information from where to procure the options. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058157 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER BASED ROUTING - A system and method for providing route information to a user, in which paths provided to the user are automatically selected based on personal information of the user, so that in following the provided paths, the user passes things in which the user may have particular interest. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058158 | Coordinated Purchasing - Methods and systems are provided for coordinating purchases. For example, account information for a user can be stored in one or more memories. The account information can include an identification of a first product, such as a first product being purchased by the user. A communication can be received via one or more hardware processors in communication with the one or more memories. The communication can include an identification of a second product. The account information can be accessed via one or more hardware processors. Whether or not the second product is related to the first product can be determined via the one or more hardware processors. The second product can be coordinated, via one or more hardware processors, with respect to the first product if the second product is related to the first product. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058159 | Mobile Information Gateway for Private Customer Interaction - A mobile information gateway comprises a wearable human interface module having an image delivery and display mechanism for presenting information overlaid upon a wide field of view, a computing and communication module adapted receive information from the human interface module and adapted to send commands and information to the human interface module including information for presentation; and a backend service server coupled for processing data from the computing and communication module including user identification and verification. The present invention also includes a method for private interaction comprises capturing information with a first mobile information gateway device; processing the captured information to determine an identity of a first user; processing the captured information to authenticate the first user; processing the identity of the first user to retrieve information of the first user; and presenting the retrieved information of the first user overlaid upon a first field of view by the first mobile information gateway device; and presenting the retrieved information to a second user overlaid upon a second field of view by the second mobile information gateway device. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058160 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING ONLINE PRODUCTS - Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for recommending online products, a system for recommending online products, and a computer program product for recommending online products. A method for recommending online products is provided. The method includes specifying a main product zone of a query product image, dividing the main product zone into a plurality of local zones, extracting color features from each local zone, looking up candidate recommended product images sharing common characteristics with a query product image based on the color features of each local zone, matching, among the found candidate recommended product images, product images that are similar in terms of color matching to the query product image, and regarding the matched product images as recommended product images. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066682 | GIFT PACKAGE RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods and systems can provide recommendations regarding gift packages. For example, a system can comprise a memory that stores information about a gift card recipient. A hardware processor can be in communication with the memory. The hardware processor can receive a communication that includes an indication of a desire of a user to purchase a gift card for the gift card recipient. The hardware processor can access the information. The hardware processor can determine, at least in part from the information, a recommendation for use of the gift card by the recipient. The hardware processor can facilitate sending of the recommendation to the user or the recipient, such as via text messaging or email. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066683 | RECOMMENDED MODES OF TRANSPORTATION FOR ACHIEVING FITNESS GOALS - A computing system is described that determines one or more of modes of transportation available to a user of a computing device to travel from a current location of the computing device to a particular destination such that the user is predicted to arrive at the particular destination by a particular future time. The computing system determines, based at least in part on a fitness goal associated with the user of the computing device, a recommended mode of transportation from the one or more modes of transportation, the recommended mode of transportation being a particular mode of transportation predicted to aid the user in achieving the fitness goal. The computing system outputs, for transmission to the computing device, an indication of the recommended mode of transportation. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066684 | REAL-TIME RECOMMENDATION BROWSER PLUG-IN - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for performing operations comprising: extracting product information from a webpage; getting recommendations from an online marketplace server; and displaying the recommendation from the online marketplace server in a plug-in on the webpage. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066685 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL CONTENT DISCOVERY, RECOMMENDATIONS AND PURCHASING - A system and method for providing media recommendations to a user is described. A server computing device provides a browsing user with media content recommendation information based on a recommending user's media library. A client computing device, in communication with the server computing device, is provided with a user interface for purchasing media. The recommending user may be provided with a commission when the browsing user browses and/or purchases media content based on the recommending user's recommendation. The recommending user's media library is presented to the purchasing user based on a predefined level of similarity between the purchasing user's media content library and the recommending user's media content library. The recommending user may receive a commission when other users browse the recommending user's media library. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066686 | PORTFOLIO-LEVEL DECISION SUPPORT - The present invention employs branded virtual characters to engage and educate users regarding an array of health-related insurance, financial, and other benefits, enabling informed decision-making during this complex process. Information is collected gradually on an “as-needed” basis to avoid overwhelming users with lengthy and redundant requests for information, while still providing a safe environment for users to freely discuss personal, health, financial and related sensitive issues. Throughout the process, the system employs a portfolio-driven approach to identify inter-dependencies among different benefit products and plans, and prioritize and recommend “portfolio-level” benefit solutions. Back-end components enable users to complete transactions (e.g., via third-party quoting and enrollment systems and employer HRIS systems, as well as via access to external medical and claims data), and provide third parties with access to the educational, decision-making and transactional aspects of this process, including various authoring and other tools to generate and modify system content over time. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066687 | USE OF E-RECEIPTS FOR CONSUMPTION TRACKING - Embodiments related to tracking consumer consumption for purchased items are provided. In some embodiments, a system is provided that receives e-receipt data, including stack keeping unit (SKU) level data, from a customer and compares the e-receipt data with transaction data. The system identifies transactions associated with one or more customer goals based on the SKU level data and calculates a first quantity of consumption for each of the identified transactions. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066688 | UNDERSTANDING PAST PURCHASE TRANSACTIONS BASED ON PURCHASE TRANSACTION HISTORY - Embodiments of the invention are directed to apparatus, methods, and computer program products for understanding past transactions based on purchase history. In some embodiments, an apparatus is configured to receive a request from a customer associated with a financial institution account; retrieve information associated with the request from a structured financial account database; and provide a recommendation to the customer based on the request and the information retrieved. | 03-05-2015 |
20150073931 | FEATURE SELECTION FOR RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS - Disclosed herein is a system and method for identifying features of items that are more relevant for making recommendations to consumers for content that they may be interested in. The system determines the similarity between items that are recommend and items in the user's history and compares that similarity measure to the similarity measure calculated for a random item on the same features. From this similarity measure the relative impactfullness of a particular feature on a recommendation can be determined. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073932 | Strength Based Modeling For Recommendation System - Example apparatus and methods provide a recommendation to a user about a product they may wish to consider purchasing. One method produces a single indication concerning a relationship between a user and an item with which the user has interacted. The single indication identifies whether the user likes the item and the degree to which the user likes the item. The single indication is independent of user signals processed to compute the single indication. The single indication is produced by a signal deriver that is loosely coupled to a model of users and items. The model may be a matrix upon which matrix factorization can be performed. Although matrix factorization is performed, it is performed on vectors whose elements are independent of the signals processed by the signal deriver. Since users may have different preferences at different times, the degree to which the user likes the item may be manipulated. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073933 | VEHICLE POWERTRAIN SELECTOR - Vehicle data concerning characteristics of one or more types of vehicle is obtained. Vehicle usage data concerning operation of one or more vehicles is also obtained. A value is predicted for at least one datum for at least one characteristic of the type of vehicle for the user. The at least one datum is used to generate at least one powertrain recommendation for at least one type of vehicle. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073934 | System, Process and Software Arrangement for Providing Multidimensional Recommendations/Suggestions - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing multidimensional data corresponding to a multidimensional space having at least three dimensions. Each dimension has a number of attributes characterizing the dimension, and each attribute is capable of providing variable information. The method includes retrieving data corresponding to each of at least three dimensions of the multidimensional space and generating for a user a recommendation based on the data retrieved from each dimension. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081469 | ASSISTING BUYING DECISIONS USING CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS - A method, system, and computer program product for assisting buying decisions using customer behavior analysis are provided in the illustrative embodiments. Product information comprising a set of product attributes is received about a grouping of products. Customer behavior information about a behavior of a customer is received from which a set of customer buying behavior factors is extracted. A customer buying behavior factor comprises an inferred preference of the customer for buying a product from the grouping of products. A weight is assigned to a customer buying behavior factor. A set of weighted customer buying behavior factors is mapped to a subset of the product attributes. At least one product is selected from the grouping of products such that the at least one product includes a subset of product attributes, and an overall weighted score of the at least one product exceeds a threshold. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081470 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT IN COMMUNICATIONS SHARING A WEBPAGE - An apparatus and methods are provided for personalizing messages that are sent to a recipient when a user of a website wishes to “share” a particular webpage or content thereof with the recipient. The apparatus and methods, which are founded on non-transitory computer readable media, involve using information available about the recipient as well as information about a product or service displayed on the webpage to identify supplemental content to include in the message to the recipient regarding the shared webpage. The recipient's prior browsing and purchasing histories with the website, as well as the purchasing tendencies of other customers, may be particularly helpful in identifying relevant supplemental content. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081471 | PERSONAL RECOMMENDATION SCHEME - A system may include a similarity measurement processing unit configured to determine a plurality of similar users that are similar to a user based on similarity values including calculating the similarity values for pairs of users based on an importance vector and differences between rated items. The importance vector may include importance values corresponding to a plurality of items, and each importance value may represent a similarity importance of a corresponding item. Each similarity value may represent a level of similarity between the user and another user. Also, the system may include a rating processor configured to estimate a rating value of an unrated item for potential recommendation based on recommendations from the plurality of similar users, and provide a recommendation for the item based on the rating value. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081472 | Computational Size Selection For Off The Shelf Garments - Computational systems may be provided to assist with compression garment recommendations. A measurement of a person's body part may be received, and a compression expected to be applied may be computed. The expected compression may be based upon an arm measurement and upon a known relationship between a size of the garment, such as a stretched circumference, and the compression applied to an object that stretches the garment to that circumference. Graphs and formulas may be used to represent physical properties of a compression garment by assigning compression levels for ranges of relevant circumferences for a multitude of points along a limb. Information about needs of a patient, patient's condition, compression sensitivity, desired compression class, or desired use may be considered as part of a computational analysis to assist in fitting garments. The disclosed recommendation systems may assist clinicians, patients, consumers, or other users in selecting suitable off-the-shelf compression garments. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081473 | SMART SOCIAL GIFTING - In a method for utilizing social networking services of a user to perform online retail services, a processor retrieves a set of contacts, wherein the set of contacts includes a first group of contacts of a first networking service and a second group of contacts of a second networking service, wherein each contact in the set of contacts has a corresponding link to information about that contact. A processor receives a request for an action to be executed, wherein the request includes gifting information, wherein the gifting information specifies a required relationship between the user and the one or more contact of the set of contacts. A processor determines the one or more contacts that have the required relationship with the user, as specified by the gifting information. A processor causes the action to be executed based on the determined one or more contacts. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088683 | RECOMMENDING AN ITEM PAGE - The present disclosure addresses systems and methods to facilitate recommending an item page. The system may receive a reference to the item from a first device that corresponds to a first person. The system may generate an item page that refers to the item. The generating of the item page may be based on the received reference to the item. The system may detect that a quantity of received comments directed to the item exceeds a threshold amount. The received comments may be received by the system from a plurality of devices that correspond to second persons other than a seller of the item. An address of the generated item page may be sent to a second device that corresponds to a seller of the item. The sending of the address may be in response to the system detecting that the quantity of the received comments exceeds the threshold amount. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088684 | SOCIAL MEDIA-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - A user may request a recommendation for an item from other users. Other users may respond to the request by recommending for or against items. Users may up-vote or down-vote the recommendations or responses of other users. The recommendations of the other users may be used to identify items and provide one or more recommendations to the requesting user. The original question and the responses may form a conversation thread. The recommendations may be inserted into the thread as responses, may be presented alongside the thread, or may be presented at the end of the thread. The recommendations may be based on one or more attributes of the user. The weight of the recommendations provided by other users may vary. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088685 | METHOD FOR SHARING INFORMATION AND POSITIVE RATINGS OF PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Each user of the social network is prompted to list their favorite products (i.e., cell phones, computers, movies, cars, groceries, and others), services (i.e., accounting, carpet cleaning, legal, medical, landscaping, and others), people (i.e., celebrities, executives, consultants, specialist, and other people), and organizations (any business, non-profit organizations, and others). The data is then available for the member and other associated members to view and search. Members are allowed to only list items with positive ratings. Search results are organized based on the Search Criteria specified. The System is also utilizing a generic hardware/software interface that enables communication of the information directly from the place of business (Retail Store Interface). | 03-26-2015 |
20150095182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A HIGH-PERFORMANCE GRAPH ANALYTICS ENGINE - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating a product recommendation. During operation, the system receives graph data indicating vertices and edges of the graph. The vertices represent customers and products and the edges represent purchases. The system then receives a query of the graph to determine a product recommendation. Next, the system generates a finite-state machine (FSM) based on the query, executes the query, and determines whether a current state of the FSM is a traversal state. In response to the current state being a traversal state, the system generates a traversal FSM. The system then searches the traversal FSM for a nearest future traversal state, generates a bitmask for the future traversal state, and utilizes the generated bitmask when executing the future traversal state to generate the product recommendation. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095183 | Methods and Apparatus for Generating Recommendations - Systems and techniques for generating recommendations for items likely to be of interest to a user. Upon an indication that a recommendation may be needed by a user, a plurality of recommendations from different sources are generated and combined. Suitably, each recommendation includes parameters such as accuracy and confidence parameters. Combining the recommendations comprises adjusting the parameters based on a set of rules established by an operator of a system for combining recommendations. The rules may be adjusted by operator inputs through an interface and may be adjusted, if desired, during generation of a recommendation. At least one of the recommendation sources generates recommendations based on social grouping, wherein social groupings are identified based on connections between members and similarity of purchased between members, and wherein a recommendation for a specific user is generated by identifying groups to which the user belongs and items popular within such groups. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095184 | RECOMMENDING A PERSONALIZED ENSEMBLE - A computer-implemented method for generating a recommendation of a personalized ensemble. The method includes accessing customer data associated with a customer; enabling display of items on a three-dimensional shape; enabling selection of one of the items; and dynamically generating a recommendation of a personalized ensemble for the customer based on the selection of one of the items. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095185 | LARGE-SCALE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A DYNAMIC INVENTORY - A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing recommendations are presented. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include accessing a selection of queries executed on a database of items. The selection of queries may be used to retrieve a plurality of items from the database. The plurality of items may be grouped into one of multiple clusters based on similarities between items. The method may further include receiving a recommendation request related to an item corresponding to a first cluster of the multiple clusters. A recommendation may be generated using a related item selected from the first cluster. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100452 | PRESENTATION OF PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SOCIAL INFORMATICS - A method, system, and/or computer program product presents product recommendations based on input derived from a user's social network. A description of a product selected for purchase by a user is received. A social networking site is searched for information relevant to a characterization the product. The relevant information is characterized according to a social relationship between the user and an other member of the social networking site, a product family of the product, and a product expertise of the other member about the product. Characterized information about the product is then presented to the user. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100453 | COLOR INDICATION - A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing applicability indicators using color are disclosed. An applicability indicator may provide a user with an indicator of the applicability of a particular item presented to the user in response to a search query or recommendation. In some embodiments, the method may include accessing a user profile and a set of item attributes corresponding to an item. The method may further include determining an applicability score for the item. A set of color values may be assigned to the item based on the applicability score. An item view interface including the item and an applicability indicator is generated. The applicability indicator may be colored according to the set of color values assigned to the item. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100454 | PRESENTATION OF PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SOCIAL INFORMATICS - A method, system, and/or computer program product presents product recommendations based on input derived from a user's social network. A description of a product selected for purchase by a user is received. A social networking site is searched for information relevant to a characterization the product. The relevant information is characterized according to a social relationship between the user and an other member of the social networking site, a product family of the product, and a product expertise of the other member about the product. Characterized information about the product is then presented to the user. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100455 | FASHION COORDINATION ASSIST DEVICE, FASHION COORDINATION ASSIST SYSTEM, FASHION COORDINATION ASSIST METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a fashion coordination assist device etc. which provides fashion coordination automatically reflecting preference of a user. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO DATA - The disclosed embodiments include, for example, systems and methods for providing recommendations of one or more alternative products to a user based on investment portfolio data. In one aspect, the disclosed embodiments may include a system that is configured to receive an identifier of a product prior to a purchase of the product by a user, and determine parameters associated with the product based on the received product identifier. In certain aspects the system may be configured to identify an alternative product associated with at least one of the product parameters and at least one of a plurality of securities associated with the investment portfolio of the user. The system may also be configured to perform a process that causes transmission of information identifying the alternative product for presentation on a device of the user. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED PARALLEL SEARCH ON BIPARTITE GRAPHS USING DYNAMIC VERTEX-TO-PROCESSOR MAPPING - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for dynamically assigning vertices to processors to generate a recommendation for a customer. During operation, the system receives graph data with customer and product vertices and purchase edges. The system traverses the graph from a customer vertex to a set of product vertices. The system divides the set of product vertices among a set of processors. Subsequently, the system determines a set of product frontier vertices for each processor. The system traverses the graph from the set of product frontier vertices to a set of customer vertices. The system divides the set of customer vertices among a set of processors. Then, the system determines a set of customer frontier vertices for each processor. The system traverses the graph from the set of customer frontier vertices to a set of recommendable product vertices. The system generates one or more product recommendations for the customer. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106224 | DETERMINING PICKING COSTS FOR A SET OF CANDIDATE PRODUCTS FOR A PRODUCT ORDER - A method, system or computer usable program product for offering a set of candidate products that have a lower picking cost including detecting a product selected for purchase by a user; identifying a list of proximate products to the product selected for purchase; utilizing a processor for ranking the proximate products considering incremental picking costs and applicability of the proximate products to the product selected for purchase to determine picking scores for a subset of the proximate products in the list of proximate products; and presenting to the user the set of candidate products selected from the subset of proximate products based on the picking scores. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106225 | PERSONALIZED WEBPAGE GIFTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A personalized webpage gifting system includes a server in communication with a computing device having a processor to execute an application. Upon execution, the application generates generate a graphical user interface (GUI) to receive recipient information from each of a plurality of participants in which the recipient information user-supplied content associated with a recipient from each of a plurality of participants, and a monetary amount to be contributed towards purchase of a gift for the recipient. The application then combines the user-supplied content of each participant to form a personalized content structure, wherein the application is further executable to facilitate transmission of the gift and the personalized content structure to the recipient. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106226 | GAMING MARKETPLACE APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The GAMING MARKETPLACE APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“UBGER”) transform user site navigation inputs via UBGER components into systematically-defined user behavior-based game exchange recommendations and offers. In one embodiment, the UBGER obtains activity logs including data on actions taken by a user within a website. The UBGER extracts user behavioral attributes based on analyzing the obtained activity logs, and queries a database for identifications of electronic games associated with the extracted user behavioral attributes. The UBGER queries a database for electronic games owned by the user, and identifies inactive electronic games owned by the user, based on the activity logs. The UBGER generates an offer including a recommendation for trade-in of one of the identified inactive electronic games in exchange for the purchase of one of the electronic games associated with the extracted user behavioral attributes, and provides the generated offer to a client device of the user. | 04-16-2015 |
20150112830 | INTERNET RADIO AND BROADCAST METHOD WITH MUSIC PURCHASING - Data streams are generally selected according to user preferences and transmitted to the user in general alignment with expressed preferences of the user. Such data streams may be music, including music videos. Users may indicate their general or specific preferences with regards to song, artists, or albums. Any other aspects or factors that might affect the user's preferences can be taken into account. A playlist is created that combines all of these factors. The playlist then serves as the basis for feeding the data streams to the user. Each user is able to express his or her own preferences and receive music corresponding to those preferences on an on-going basis. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112831 | RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON USAGE AND RESOURCE CONSUMPTION DATA - An electronic device may generate use related information and resource consumption related information corresponding to each of used applications used in the electronic device. The use related information and the resource consumption related information may then be transmitted to a remote applications manager, which may analyze the information to generate, based on the analysis, specially tailored application recommendations. The application recommendations may list one or more other applications, newly available or offered, which may be recommended for download to and/or use in the electronic device. The analysis of the use and the resource consumption information may comprise ranking the used applications, such as based on use patterns and/or resource consumption, and/or classification of the used applications, such as based on application type. Generating the application recommendations may comprise correlating used applications, based on classification and/or ranking, with similar applications that may be recommended. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120493 | GUIDED AND INTERACTIVE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A guided and interactive recommendation system and method. In-depth product and service profiles are stored followed by a user profile of a user that wishes to employ the system and method. An initial ranking of products and services is performed based upon other information, and parameters inherited from the user profile. A real-time queue—and blocks for insertion into the real-time queue are generated. Questions in the blocks that meet eligibility conditions are traversed sequentially until all of the blocks and questions therein are traversed. Products and services rankings are computed and recomputed along with the questions until all of the questions and blocks are exhausted. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127481 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FACILITATING INTERACTIONS OF A USER WITH A PERSON IN RELATION WITH THE USER - A method and a system facilitate interactions of a user with a person in relation with the user. A server detects an access from the user. The server fetches a profile of the person in relation with the user from a database. The profile includes at least a type for the relationship between the user and that person. Based on the relationship type, the server fetches a list of procurable gifts from one or more supplier servers. The list of procurable gifts is presented to the user. The user selects a gift and the server orders purchase of the selected gift from a supplier of the selected gift. The profile may include a shipping address and the purchase may comprise a request for delivery of the selected gift to the shipping address. Profiles may be defined for a plurality of persons in relation with the user. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127482 | Merchandise Recommendation System, Method and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Storage Medium of the Same for Multiple Users - A merchandise recommendation method for multiple users used in a merchandise recommendation system including a user database, a merchandise database, a data transmission module, a processing module and a memory is provided. The merchandise recommendation method includes the steps outlined below. The processing module receives participant information and target merchandise information from a remote originator host. The processing module retrieves corresponding user information from the user database according to the participant information. The processing module retrieves corresponding merchandise information from the merchandise database according to the target merchandise information. The processing module analyzes social influence information and preference information included in the user information and analyzes the merchandise information to generate an analysis result. The processing module generates composite merchandise recommendation information according to the analysis result. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134474 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING TOURIST ATTRACTIONS BASED ON MEDICAL SERVICES - A method for recommending tour attractions based on medical services includes steps of choosing at least one medical service from a plurality of medical services; calculating suitability between the at least one medical service and tourist attractions based on medical degree parameters and tour degree parameters; and recommending at least one tourist attraction from a plurality of tourist attractions based on the suitabilities. Furthermore, a system for recommending tourist attractions based on medical services is also disclosed herein. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134475 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THEREON INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a recording medium storing thereon the information processing program, which can prevent a transaction disadvantageous to a user or registration of disadvantageous transaction objects. The information processing apparatus extracts a transaction object, which is identical to or related to a transaction object to be selected by a user and with which a condition more advantageous than the corresponding transaction object is associated, from a storing means that stores information on transaction objects referred to in the past time by the user, and presents the extracted transaction object to the user. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134476 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A RECOMMENDATION - A device and a method for automatic generation of a recommendation for an item p to a user u. The device is at least indirectly connected to an item database containing a user profile database and a user interrelation database. A standard recommender engine accesses the item database and user profile database to calculate a score s(p,u) in a [0,1] interval indicating a “like” degree of an item p for user u based on a user profile of user u. The device further has a content discovery recommender to access the user interrelation database and to find at least users v that have a direct connection to user u to determine a fraction of the users v that know an item p and to generate a recommendation based on the score s(p,u) of item p. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142602 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND ENGAGEMENT OF SERVICE PROVIDERS - The current document is directed to methods and systems that identify projects for which service consumers desire service provision and identify available candidate service providers that best match various project parameters and service-provision criteria determined by the automated system. Information describing the identified candidate service providers is presented to the service consumers by the systems to allow service consumers in order to facilitate their selection of service providers and scheduling of service provision. In one described implementation, service providers are matched to stock-keeping-unit (“SKU”) identifiers and location or locations. Service providers identified in the initial SKU-and-location-based matching process are then scored and ranked according to additional criteria and constraints, with information describing the highest-ranked service candidate providers provided to service consumers for selection and scheduling. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149318 | System and Method For Determining and Displaying the Metabolic Energy of Skin Cells - The present invention is related to a computer-based system and method for determining and displaying the metabolic energy of skin cells of an individual, based on a set of biological data collected from the individual, including but not limited to: skin wrinkling, skin texture, skin pigmentation, skin hydration, age, UV exposure, and/or health habits. Particularly, the present invention is useful for counseling consumers of cosmetic products on sales counters regarding the metabolic energy of their skin and making corresponding recommendations for appropriate cosmetic products that will improve their skin metabolic energy. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294391 | Guided Selling of Product - In a method for recommending a product, a first record for a characteristic of a potential user of the product can be provided. The first record can have a field for an attribute of the product with a value that can correspond to a relative degree of importance of the attribute with respect to the characteristic. A second record for a specific product can be provided. The second record can have a field for the attribute with a value that can indicate that the specific product has the attribute. A specific value for the specific product can be produced. The specific value can correspond to a relative degree of suitability of the specific product with respect to the characteristic. Information about the specific product can be transmitted to a client configured to be used by the potential user. The information can be based on the specific value. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294398 | PRECISION ENABLED RETAIL DISPLAY - A system includes a highlighter that is installed in a store to highlight a physical position of an item on display in the store. The system also includes a processor installed in the store to determine a location and identification (ID) of a mobile device, and retrieve a profile of a user of the mobile device based on the ID. The processor controls the highlighter to highlight the item when the location of the mobile device is determined to be within a predetermined distance of the item, and when the item is determined to be of interest to the user of the mobile device based on information obtained in the profile. | 10-15-2015 |
20150302388 | Design framework and apparatus for paying gratitudes - A computer-implemented method that requires an inventive special-purpose software apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises software subsystems that facilitate Patrons using a Mobile Application, to easily find and then submit gratuity payments to Service Providers. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302505 | FASHION PREFERENCE ANALYSIS - A machine may be configured to determine fashion preferences of users and to provide item recommendations to the users based on the users' fashion preferences. For example, the machine receives an image of a user and a set of spatial data indicating a position of the body of the user in a three-dimensional space. The machine may perform an analysis of the image and the set of spatial data. The performing of the analysis may include extracting, from the image, an image swatch that depicts a portion of an item worn by the user. The machine may identify a fashion preference of the user based on the analysis of the image and of the set of spatial data. The machine may identify an item that corresponds to the fashion preference of the user within an inventory of fashion items and may generate a recommendation of the identified fashion item. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE OBJECT RECOGNITION AND PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS - A system and method for multiple object recognition and personalization recommendations is provided that store images data received from a client device in one or more of an electronic memory and a mass-storage device of an application, generating a first data set from the received image data representing a plurality of regions of in a photographic image, each region including objects of a designated type, generating a plurality of object features for each of the objects of the designated type, identifying each of the objects represented in the image data using a plurality of object features and a plurality of object attributes in a second data set, generating a listing of identified objects and a plurality of attributes associated with each of the identified objects, and transmitting to the client device the listing of identified objects and associated objects for generation of an ordered list of personalized recommendations. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310529 | WEB-BEHAVIOR-AUGMENTED RECOMMENDATIONS - One or more web-behavior-augmented recommendation servers augment catalog interaction data between consumers and a catalog of products with collected online web behavior data associated with individual users. The online web behavior data represents online web behavior of the each consumer outside of the catalog of products and can improve the accuracy of product recommendations, which then be presented to an individual consumer via a computer user interface. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310530 | NAVIGATION AND RECOMMENDATION ON PAYMENT CHECKOUT IN A PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL NETWORK - Techniques for providing a member of a social, professional or business networking service with a product purchase recommendation based on products previously purchased by similar members in the social networking service are described. With some embodiments, a general recommendation engine is used to determine a first member is attempting to make a product purchase decision. The recommendation engine identifies members similar to the first member and identifies their product browsing patterns, which resulted in a product purchase, that are similar to the first member's current product browsing pattern. The recommendation engine determines a product recommendation based on the products purchased by the similar members. As the first member's current product browsing pattern changes, the recommendation engine dynamically changes the product recommendation and displays the product recommendation to the first member. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317718 | Defining a Selection Process - A selection process is defined for items provided by an e-commerce site to shoppers' web browsers. One or more selection attributes are identified for each e-commerce shop item. A selection function is defined in association with each selected attribute. At least one rule is defined for combining one or many of selection scores from respective selection functions to obtain an item score. The selection process is then defined as selecting items in response to the item scores. | 11-05-2015 |
20150332372 | System and Method for Context-Aware Recommendation through User Activity Change Detection - Example systems and methods for context-aware recommendation generation are described. In one implementation, item models are built using user preference data of multiple users and item information of multiple items. When a recommendation request corresponding to a user is received, the profile of that user is retrieved from the user profile database. Given the profile of the user and the item models, utility scores are then computed for the candidate items. Our system exploits a novel approach to detect any sudden and significant changes in the preference data of the given user. If a change is detected, the utility scores are adapted to prioritize the user's most recent preferences. The computed utility scores are used as the basis for ranking the items. A subset of items with highest scores is then selected as recommendations and is presented to the user. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332373 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PUSHING MOBILE APPLICATION - Provided are a method and system for pushing a mobile application. The method comprises: determining more than one mobile application category with the highest relevance to a mobile application category to which a mobile application designated by a user belongs; according to the pre-generated weight value of the mobile application, calculating and determining the degree of recommendation of each mobile application under the mobile application category; and according to the principle of high to low of the determined degrees of recommendation of each mobile application under the mobile application category, selecting a preset recommendation result number of the mobile applications as a recommendation result and pushing same to a user. According to the technical solution provided in the present invention, the diversity of recommended mobile applications can be effectively improved. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING SEARCH RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS - A recommendation system can be configured to customize search results and/or recommendations of content (e.g., customized products, products, advertising, layouts, etc.) using online and/or offline activity captured on a user population. The system can be configured to customize the content returned to users to achieve specific behaviors and/or influence the current user's behavior, responsive to modeling previous users. For example, the system can capture and aggregate user behavior/activity and score content based on the actions taken with respect to the content. In some examples, the scoring can be filtered or augmented by matching current user characteristics to characteristics of the previous users. The scoring can be generated independent of the language in which the activity/user behavior occurred. According to one embodiment, the system is configured to generate language independent models and utilize the language independent modeling to deliver customized content (e.g., recommendations and/or search results) without conventional constraints. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339755 | Using Status of Sign-On to Online Services for Content Item Recommendations - An SSO provider—i.e., a provider of user accounts that a number of other online services accept as a sign-on technique—identifies the online services to which its users sign on, as well as the digital content items that those users access. The SSO provider uses this information to associate particular content items with particular online services, or combinations of online services. The SSO provider can then use the associations to make recommendations of content items to users based on the services to which the users have signed on. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339756 | PERSONALIZING ALTERNATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS USING SEARCH CONTEXT - Aspects of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing alternative recommendations using search context. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include receiving a user search query and receiving a request to view an item included in a set of search results retrieved in response to the search query. The method may further include determining an alternative item recommendation using the search query and attributes of the item, and causing presentation of the item and the alternative item recommendation in response to receiving the request to view the item. | 11-26-2015 |
20150342266 | Self-measuring garment - Measurement apparatus includes an elastic fabric, configured as a garment to be worn over a part of a body of a human subject. One or more conductive fibers are integrated with the elastic fabric to as to stretch together with the elastic fabric when worn over the part of the body. A controller is coupled to measure a change in an electrical property of the one or more conductive fibers in response to stretching of the elastic fabric, and to output an indication of a dimension of the part of the body based on the measured change. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348162 | USER-STATE MEDIATED PRODUCT SELECTION - Systems and methods may provide purchasing suggestions to consumers based on the emotional, financial, social or physiological state of the consumer. The state of a consumer is based on data that may be collected from a variety of sources, including image data and biosensor data collected at the point of sale, as well as data accessible via smart phone or stored elsewhere. The systems and methods may be practiced in the context of a vending machine, bricks-and-mortar store, on-line store, or other venue. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348163 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON INTERACTIONS IN RETAIL STORES - An end-user device operable in a retail store records a voice conversation held in the retail store. The recording is transmitted to a server for comparing it to recordings of other conversations from a plurality of other retail stores. The server makes a recommendation based on the comparing. Embodiments of the invention are also directed to an analytics system that collects real-time metrics data for various virtual or physical retail stores associated with a plurality of contact centers. The system performs real-time analytics of the collected metrics data for identifying a product or service. The processor modifies, based on the real-time analytics, a prior service or product to be offered by a particular retail store, with the identified service or product. The processor pushes the modified service or product for display on the end-user device use in the particular retail store. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348164 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MUSIC RECOMMENDATION - A music recommendation system. Signals representing particular works of authorship are transformed into the frequency domain and further manipulated to produce “signatures” for the works, and the similarities of the signatures can be used as a basis for recommending to a person who is known to enjoy, or known to have purchased, one work of authorship one or more other works of authorship the person may also enjoy or seek to purchase. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348165 | SERVER, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR MANAGEMENT OF SERVICE RECOMMENDATION - Service recommendation among users can be promoted while refraining from excessive recommendation activity. A server according to an embodiment includes an information storage unit, a screen display control unit controlling displaying screens on a terminal device, and an offering request receiving unit receiving an offering request of recommendation information. The offering request is executed without specifying a recommendation destination user. The server further includes a recommendation destination user selecting unit selecting a recommendation destination user, a recommendation information delivering unit delivering the selected destination user with the recommendation information in response to a predetermined action by a recommendation source user, a virtual object information update unit updating virtual object information necessary for executing the offering request, a recommendation information discarding unit discarding the recommendation information of which destination user has been selected if the predetermined action has not been taken by the source user until a preset time. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348166 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED FINANCIAL SERVICES BASED ON SOCIAL SIGNALS - A system and method includes a data store that stores information about a plurality of product offerings, a communication interface that receives, via a network, social signals information, a social signals processor coupled to an application programming interface that enables transmission of the social signals information, wherein the social signals processor detects a change in profile information, geo-social information, status information, or social media preference, and a product offering processor that determines a product offering from among the plurality of product offerings based on the detected change in profile information, geo-social information, status information, or social media preference. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356658 | Systems And Methods For Serving Product Recommendations - Example systems and methods for serving product recommendations for key performance indicator (KPI) optimization are described. In one implementation, a method selects at least a first item from a set of items such that a first performance indicator among a plurality of performance indicators is improved as a result of a user purchasing the first item in response to viewing at least the first item on a webpage of a website. The method also displays a graphic or textual representation of at least the first item on the webpage as a recommendation to the user. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356659 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MERCHANT REFERRALS TO CONSUMERS - A method for processing a consumer referral includes: storing, a plurality of location data entries, each entry including data related to a geographic location including a location identifier and location data; storing a plurality of referral data entries, each entry including data related to a referral including a referral identifier and one or more specific location identifiers; receiving a referral request, the request including a specific referral identifier encoded in a machine-readable code displayed at a specific geographic location associated with the specific referral identifier; identifying a specific referral data entry where the included referral identifier corresponds to the specific referral identifier; identifying a specific location data entry where the included location identifier corresponds to one of the one or more specific location identifiers included in the identified specific referral data entry; and transmitting the location data included in the identified specific location data entry in response to the request. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356661 | COSMETIC MATCHING AND RECOMMENDATIONS - Using use hardware sensors and computer analysis on data captured by the hardware sensors to provide personalized, consistent, and objective cosmetic recommendations to a user. Embodiments include using a hardware sensing device to capture a scan a of user's face, and identifying attributes of the user's face from the scan, to provide one or more cosmetic recommendations. In such embodiments, the recommendations may be based on performing an analysis to determine a skin tone of the user's face and/or a bone structure of the user's face from the scan. Embodiments also include using a hardware sensing device to capture a scan of a subject cosmetic product, and identifying attributes of the subject cosmetic produce from the scan, to provide one or more cosmetic recommendations. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363859 | INFER PRODUCT CORRELATIONS BY INTEGRATING TRANSACTIONS AND CONTEXTUAL USER BEHAVIOR SIGNALS - Systems and methods for determining correlation scores for product pairs are provided. Contextual user behavior indicator data relating to a plurality of user behavior indicator types is received. A correlation score is computed for a first product and a second product for each user behavior indicator type from the plurality of user behavior indicator types. A final correlation score is computed for the first product and the second product by combining the computed correlation scores for each user behavior indicator type. The computed final correlation score for the first product and the second product is stored into a first data storage. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363861 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED PERSONALIZATION USING BEACON TECHNOLOGY - A system and method are disclosed for providing a targeted recommendation for a product or service. At least one database is accessed that includes software application information associated with at least one respective software application provided to each of a plurality of users, profile information of the users, user interest history information and inventory information associated with at least one product and/or service. Electronic use information associated with one of the software applications within a location at a given time is received and processed to associate the one respective software application with a respective one of the plurality of user devices. At least some of the electronic inventory information associated with one of the merchants is determined and a recommendation of a product and/or service associated with the one merchant is made. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363862 | FINANCIAL PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FOR A CONSUMER - A computer-implemented method comprising: comparing, by one or more computer systems, personal profile information of a consumer to financial product information for financial products; identifying, based on the comparing, one of the financial products with a higher relevance to the consumer relative to relevances of others of the financial products; and generating, based on the identified financial product, a financial product recommendation specifically for the consumer. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363863 | MODES, CONTROL AND APPLICATIONS OF RECOMMENDATIONS AUTO-CONSUMPTION - A method includes acts for filtering auto consumption recommendations and auto consumption actions. The method includes receiving from a recommendation system, a recommendation of an asset for consumption. The asset for consumption is evaluated in the context of one or more filter rules regarding auto consumption. The filter rules are configured to filter recommended assets from being consumed when certain criteria are met or to permit recommended assets to be consumed when certain criteria are met. As a result, the method includes identifying one or more constraints on how recommended asset should be consumed. The method further includes filtering consumption of the recommended asset based on the one or more constraints. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363864 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROPOSAL TO FURNISHING AND DECORATIONS BUYER - Disclosure herein is related to a system and a method for providing proposal to furnishing and decorations buyer. The system provides a serving system. In the serving system, a style category can be determined when analyzing the elements selected by a user using a terminal device. Then an arrangement plan for the selected furnishing and decorations is proposed. In the method, a process begins as receiving selection data from the terminal device. The selection data is such a shopping list made by a product exhibit platform. The elements in the list are referred to render a style category as compared to a database. At least one proposal, including furnishing arrangement, layout design, and combined photos, for the user's reference is therefore decided according to the style category. | 12-17-2015 |
20150379608 | COLOR BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for generating social networking recommendations. A color preference of a first user may be determined from a color palette of a first image associated with the user and/or a color palette of an item associated with the user. Other users may be identified that have a similar color preference as the first user based at least in part on the determined color preference of the first user. Interactions between the first user and one or more other users having similar color preferences with respect to the first user may be facilitated. A social networking recommendation may be generated with respect to the one or more other users having similar color preferences with respect to the first user. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379609 | GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNFAMILIAR USERS BY UTILIZING SOCIAL SIDE INFORMATION - System and method for identifying commodities for recommendation to a target user based on side information that is pertinent to a specific target user and extrinsic to the commodities. Training data is exploited to derive a statistical correlation between users' side information of a plurality of attributes with a plurality of commodities. The training data includes side information of a set of training users and a plurality of commodities towards which the training users have manifested preference. Based on the derived statistical correlation and the target user's side information, a probability distribution representing the target user's tendency to purchase the plurality of commodities can be determined. As a result, a list of commodities can be automatically selected from the plurality of commodities and recommended to the target user. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379610 | RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE, RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD, AND RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION PRESENTATION PROGRAM - A recommendation information presentation device includes a topic generation unit that mechanically classifies words extracted from text information about a plurality of products and generates a plurality of topics made up of a plurality of words, a product profile generation unit that generates a product profile indicating the tendency of distribution of words contained in the text information about products over topics, a presentation unit that presents words contained in at least two topics to a user terminal for each topic, an extraction unit that generates a user profile indicating the tendency of selection of a topic by a user based on selection of a topic by the user and extracts a product profile indicating the tendency of distribution that coincides with the tendency of selection with a certain degree or higher, and a recommendation information presentation unit that presents information about a product associated with the extracted product profile. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379611 | ORDER ACCEPTING DEVICE, ORDER ACCEPTING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An acquirer ( | 12-31-2015 |
20150379612 | MULTI-STRATEGY GENERATION OF PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS - Techniques are described for dynamically generating recommendations for users, such as for products and other items. In at least some situations, the techniques include using multiple recommendation strategies, such as by aggregating recommendation results from multiple different recommendation strategies. Such recommendation strategies may have various forms, and may be based at least in part on data regarding prior interactions of numerous users with numerous items. In addition, information about current selections of a particular user may be gathered based at least in part on providing a GUI (“graphical user interface”) for display to the user that includes selectable information about numerous recommended items, and dynamically updating the displayed GUI with newly generated recommendations of items as the user makes selections of particular displayed recommended items (e.g., newly generated recommendations that are similar to the selected items in one or more manners, or are otherwise related to the selected items). | 12-31-2015 |
20150379613 | Enhancing a User's Shopping Experience - The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for enhancing a purchasing experience by enabling a purchaser to receive a variety of real-time updates or recommendations regarding products that the purchaser, such as a user, may need or intend to purchase. A recommendation provided by the system may be based upon comparing the product with a plurality of sources. The recommendation may include a recommendation that a product may near depletion and thus may need to be replaced, a recommendation that the user may already have a sufficient amount or number of the product, a recommendation that the product may or may not match an existing item owned by the user, or a recommendation not to purchase a product. A virtual closet may also be created according the systems and methods of the subject disclosure, allowing users and contacts selected by the user to collaborate on products. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379614 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES FOR CONSUMERS OF INFORMATION - A system and method is provided for using information broadcast by devices and resources in the immediate vicinity of a mobile device, or by sensors located within the mobile device itself, to ascertain and make a determination of the immediate environment and state of the mobile device. The sensor data is then used to identify situational profiles to target and determine the relevance of apps, advertisements, content, and recommendations. | 12-31-2015 |
20160005096 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION ENGINE BASED ON REMAINING BALANCE IN A STORED-VALUE SCENARIO - According to embodiments of the present invention, computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products are provided, which identify items based on a redeemable balance. A remaining redeemable balance for a user based on a cost of one or more selected items is determined. One or more items of interest are identified to the user based on at least a cost of each item of interest in relation to the remaining redeemable balance. The identified one or more items of interest are ranked based on a sum of the cost of the identified one or more items of interest to the remaining redeemable balance. Electronic purchase of the identified one or more items of interest are enabled via the remaining redeemable balance. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005097 | ON-LINE PRODUCT RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS - Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate or support one or more processes and/or operations for one or more on-line recommendations, such as product-related recommendations, for example. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005098 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION ENGINE BASED ON REMAINING BALANCE IN A STORED-VALUE SCENARIO - According to embodiments of the present invention, computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products are provided, which identify items based on a redeemable balance. A remaining redeemable balance for a user based on a cost of one or more selected items is determined. One or more items of interest are identified to the user based on at least a cost of each item of interest in relation to the remaining redeemable balance. The identified one or more items of interest are ranked based on a sum of the cost of the identified one or more items of interest to the remaining redeemable balance. Electronic purchase of the identified one or more items of interest are enabled via the remaining redeemable balance. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005099 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ITEM RECOMMENDATION - Method of recommendation of an item to a user, said method comprising:
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20160012512 | LIFESTYLE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM | 01-14-2016 |
20160018804 | RE-CREATING AN INTERNAL SHAPE OF A CLOTHING ITEM - A machine may be configured to re-create an internal shape of a clothing item using a pneumatically-powered fitting device. For example, the machine, based on a clothing item identifier, identifies a description of an internal shape of a clothing item. The machine transmits an instruction referencing the description to a filling station associated with the fitting device. The machine, based on the transmitting of the instruction, causes the fitting device to adjust according to the description. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019625 | Determination of a Purchase Recommendation - A method comprising receiving information indicative of a product candidate that comprises a plurality of product candidate attributes, the product candidate attributes corresponding with product attributes that are comprised by a customer store segment sales model, the customer store segment sales model comprising a set of customer store segments, determining a relative intersegment quantity of sales for each customer store segment of the set of customer store segments, determining a relative intrasegment quantity of sales for each customer store segment of the set of customer store segments, generating a set of quadrant representations such that each quadrant representation of the set of quadrant representations represents a customer store segment of the set of customer store segments, and determining a purchase recommendation for a customer store segment based, at least in part, on a quadrant representation that represents the customer store segment. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019626 | Clothing Fitting System - A system and methods for predicting customer returns of purchased merchandise and offering suggestions to the customer for clothing size during the purchase process is described. The system makes use of data collection and historic purchase and return data to predict future purchase and return and makes suggestion to the customer to minimize customer returns, minimize cost of returns and maximize customer satisfaction. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019627 | INITIAL PROFILE CREATION IN A MEDIA RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A method of operating a recommendation system comprises receiving one or more elements of identifying information for a first user, and receiving one or more user demographic elements associated with the first user based on the received identifying information. The recommendation system generates an initial media preference profile from correlation between the one or more user demographic elements and media preferences known to be associated with the one or more user demographic elements. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026866 | USE OF CAMERA METADATA FOR RECOMMENDATIONS - In various example embodiments, a system and method for using camera metadata for making recommendations are presented. At least one image file having camera metadata is received. The camera metadata of the at least one image file is analyzed to determine improvements to image capture aspects associated with the at least one image file. Feedback related to the improvements to the image capture aspects associated with the at least one image file is generated. In some embodiments, the feedback may be used to generate camera and other product upgrade recommendations. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027087 | METHODS FOR PROVIDING TARGETED NOTIFICATIONS FOR COLOR MATCHED CONSUMER PRODUCTS AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and a data management computing device that assists with providing targeted notifications for color matched consumer products includes obtaining a color image of an object from a consumer computing device. The object in the obtained color image is analyzed to identify one or more color characteristics. One or more consumer products are identified at least based on the identified color characteristics. One or more targeted notifications is provided for the identified one or more consumer products via one or more communication channels to the consumer computing device. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027088 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL STYLE MAPPING - A system is disclosed that obtains an image of an apparel item and text describing the apparel item. The system also determines descriptive metadata of the apparel item by extracting information from the text. Further, the system further determines categorization metadata of the apparel item by analyzing the image. Additionally, the system stores the image, the descriptive metadata, and the categorization metadata in a virtual closet. Moreover, the system provides a recommendation of an outfit from a stylist to a user based on the virtual closet. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027090 | Content Recommendations Based on Personal Preferences - Electronic multimedia content is recommended based on personal preferences. Consumption information may be collected to generate recommended multimedia content. Electronic storefronts may also be selected based on the consumption information. Different portals and access points may be used based on IPTV assets, mobile assets, and mobile assets. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034208 | SOLID-STATE DISK (SSD) MANAGEMENT - SSD wear-level data ( | 02-04-2016 |
20160035000 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INSTANT STYLIST - A system and method for providing an instant stylist is provided. In example embodiments, a trigger to initiate generation of a product combination is received from a user device. The trigger may include a user preference of a user operating the user device. Style data is accessed. The style data provides guidelines indicating compatible attributes of item combinations derived from source data. Based on the user preference and the style data, the product combination is generated by matching attributes of products using the guidelines indicating the compatible attributes of item combinations. The product combination is output in a results user interface. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035001 | INTELLIGENT FUEL PURCHASING RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods for providing information to aid users make fuel purchasing decisions and facilitating fuel purchases at fuel providers. A user checks-in to a vehicle with a user account. The user is provided with recommended fuel provider locations based on information such as vehicle information, user account information, traffic information, user information, traffic information, fuel provider information, etc. User checks-in to a fuel provider location based on a connection to a device at the fuel provider location. A payment provider may receive a fuel purchase request authorizing a payment from the user account and processes the payment. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035002 | SERVICE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING POST BY ASSOCIATING APPSTORE WITH TIMELINE - Exemplary embodiments provide a computer-implemented method of enabling a recommendation of a software to a user from a software marketplace based on activities of the user's friend of an internet-based social network who is related to the first user within the confines of the social network, said user maintaining an internet-based social network account, the method comprising: receiving, from the first user, a selection of an interface associated with the software marketplace, generating, by a computer-implemented recommendation system, a list of recommended software based on the internet-based social network into which the first user is logged into, sending the list of the of recommended software to the first user, wherein the computer-implemented recommendation system retrieves the information of the user's friend and assigns a weight to a post not displayed based on an attribute thereof. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035003 | SYSTEM FOR CONCURRENT OPTIMIZATION OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS AND CUSTOMER VALUE - A computer-implemented system and method to provide options on products to enhance customers' experience. A computer-implemented system is operated that delivers to a customer an option to utilize up to n of m selected products, where m and n are whole numbers and n is less than or equal to m. Information is recorded in a data store, pertaining to said option. In addition, a system is operated to define each of the n chosen products, whereby after each of the n chosen products is defined, the customer can utilize said chosen product. The information pertaining to said defined products is recorded in a data store. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035004 | CUSTOMIZING CONTENT DELIVERY FROM A BRAND PAGE TO A USER IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - A social networking system user's interaction with a brand page may be tailored to match the user's interests. Content providers or page administrators of a brand page associate keywords with content posted to the brand page. A keyword may define a characteristic of a social networking system user to receive the content or may describe a characteristic of the content. The keywords are compared to a user profile of a user requesting the brand page and content posted to the brand page is selected for presentation to the user based on the user profile and the keywords. For example, content is presented to a user having a characteristic defined by criteria keyword. The selected content posted to the brand page is presented to the user requesting the brand page. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042428 | PERSONALIZED PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION BASED ON BRAND PERSONALITY SCALE - Brands and users are matched by determining their personalities and pairing them based on user-brand associations. Modeling parameters are estimated based on the personalities of each pair. Additional pairs of users and brands having unknown associations are identified, and each such additional pair's correlation, which may be a score, is determined, based on the modelling parameters. Brands and users having unknown associations are matched based on their correlations scores matching one or more criteria. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042429 | GIFT INFERENCE WITH CONFIRMED SOCIAL MEDIA GIFT ABSENCE - A request is received for a confirmed gift recommendation that is both confirmed as absent from social media content related to a gift recipient and confirmed to have been positively commented on by the gift recipient within a social network. Positive comments about items posted by the gift recipient within the social network are identified. A determination is made that at least one item positively commented on by the gift recipient within the social network is absent from the social media content related to the gift recipient. The request is responded to with the confirmed gift recommendation that includes the determined at least one item positively commented on by the gift recipient within the social network that is also absent from the social media content related to the gift recipient. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042432 | NON-COMMERCE DATA FOR COMMERCE ANALYTICS - In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing non-commerce data for commerce analytics are presented. Attribute data associated with a user may be received from an attribute sources. User characteristics may be inferred based on an analysis of at least a portion of the attribute data. Consumer profiles including consumer characteristics may be accessed. A specific consumer profile may be identified by correlating the inferred user characteristics with respective consumer characteristics of the consumer profiles. A commerce output may be identified based, at least in part, on the identified consumer profile. The identified commerce output may be recommended to the user. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042433 | GIFT INFERENCE WITH CONFIRMED SOCIAL MEDIA GIFT ABSENCE - A request is received for a confirmed gift recommendation that is both confirmed as absent from social media content related to a gift recipient and confirmed to have been positively commented on by the gift recipient within a social network. Positive comments about items posted by the gift recipient within the social network are identified. A determination is made that at least one item positively commented on by the gift recipient within the social network is absent from the social media content related to the gift recipient. The request is responded to with the confirmed gift recommendation that includes the determined at least one item positively commented on by the gift recipient within the social network that is also absent from the social media content related to the gift recipient. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042434 | Systems and Methods for Digital Gift Card Selection - Various of the disclosed embodiments generally contemplate computer-implemented systems and methods for selecting an electronic or virtual gift card from among a plurality of possible gift cards or gift card issuers. Various of the embodiments may match and rank the gift cards according to a gift card recipient's characteristics, and possibly to the electronic or virtual gift card itself. Certain embodiments also contemplate the selection of physical gift cards selection, matching, and ranking aspects of the invention. Various methods for operating a gift card business using certain of the embodiments are also disclosed. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042435 | GENERATING A RECOMMENDATION - A method and an apparatus for communicating a recommended item to a user are described. The method comprises determining that the user has a level of commitment to an item offered for sale, and, in response to this determination, communicating information concerning a recommended item to the user over a network. The recommended item is identified based on a set of longest words in a description of the item offered for sale. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048537 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER METHOD FOR VISUALLY GUIDING A USER TO A CURRENT INTEREST - System and computer-implemented method of analyzing tags associated with a sequence of images presented to a user to present a current interest of the user is disclosed. An image from among a plurality of images is presented on an electronic display. The image is associated with a set of tags. An input is received indicating a user's preference for the image. A plurality of tags is processed based on the preference and the set of tags to determine a next set of tags from the plurality of tags. A next image is determined from the plurality of images based on the next set of tags. The next image represents a physical object, different from a physical object represented by the previous image. A sequence of images is generated by repeating the above process with the next image in place of the previous image for present a user's current interest. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048899 | Auto Recognition of Acquirable Entities - A method of identifying, to a user, acquirable entities that the user may be interested in is disclosed. The method includes at a component configured to analyze information across a plurality of applications, analyzing in one or more of the applications being used by a user, content in the one or more applications. The method further includes based on the content, identifying one or more acquirable entities from the content. The method further includes identifying to the user the identified acquirable entities. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048902 | Recommending Content Items - Recommending content items is disclosed. In some embodiments, determining an item to recommend includes receiving an indication that a first item is of interest and selecting a second item to recommend based at least in part on a degree of similarity of the second item to the first item as determined based at least in part on a number of other instances in which both the first item and the second item have been of interest and a first decayed popularity of the first item. In some embodiments, the degree of similarity of the second item to the first item is determined based in addition on a second decayed popularity of the second item. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048903 | System and Method for Providing Curated Content Items - A system and method for providing curated content items is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method includes selecting a first set of content items from a plurality of available content items provided by a plurality of content provider servers, providing the first set of content items to a first user account of a plurality of first user accounts on a first user portal that displays on a user device, each of the first user accounts associated with a respective subscriber account of a plurality of subscriber accounts, receiving consumption information for each of the plurality of first user accounts regarding the first set of content items from the user device, determining limited content curation analytics regarding the plurality of available content items, selecting a second set of content items for the plurality of first user accounts from the plurality of available content items based on the limited content curation analytics and the consumption information, and providing the second set of content items to each of the plurality of first user accounts on the first user portal. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055567 | Online Interactive Database on Gift Choice Preferences of Recipients - The Online Interactive Database on Gift Choice Preferences of Recipients aims to provide useful information on the gift choice preferences of specific group of people on a specific occasion to the people who're looking for a gift for somebody, to assist them on making final decision on a gift choice. The database contains generalized information on gift choice preferences of people according to the occasion, country of residence (in the USA+state), gender, age group, marital status, level of relationship, occupation, hobbies, attitude to expensive gift and an expensive gift perception, attitude to gift+flowers combination. Information for the database mostly generates by the website visitors: in order to get access to the database each visitor chooses a desired (assumed) gift for himself/herself on the same occasion from the person whom looks for a gill information on gift choice preferences of the recipients from the database displays as a graph of the gift categories. Visitors can choose any gift category to find out gift choice preferences of recipients within each category and subcategories. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055568 | INTELLIGENT RECEIPT SCANNING AND ANALYSIS - Intelligent receipt scanning and analysis may include scanning a receipt that includes information related to a product. The information related to the product may be transformed to text, and extracted from the text by utilizing a machine learning process. The extracted information may be compared to known information for a plurality of known products to identify the product as a known product of the plurality of known products or an unknown product. The extracted information related to the product and known product information, from the known information, for the known product of the plurality of known products may be analyzed in response to a determination that the extracted information is similar to the known product information for the known product of the plurality of known products. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055569 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR A RING ADVISOR SYSTEM - A device that automates a design of an engagement ring. The handheld device comprises a display for displaying a series of questions to a customer and an input device that is capable of receiving at least one answer to the series of questions. The device also includes a microprocessor; and a memory that stores instructions, which cause the microprocessor to: input the at least one answer into an algorithm; identify on behalf of the customer a plurality of engagement rings that best matches the at least one answer; generate an information box in the display, in response to the selection of a specific engagement ring from the plurality of engagement rings; receive the customer's feedback on the specific engagement ring; and generating a recommended engagement ring to the customer. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055570 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING SERVICES - Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for processing services. The method includes: receiving a service processing request from a front-end equipment; determining a recommended service processing channel according to the information about the service to be processed, and acquiring content of the recommended service processing channel; sending the content of the recommended service processing channel to the front-end equipment such that the front-end equipment displays the content of the recommended service processing channel; and receiving a service acknowledgment from the front-end equipment, and processing the service to be processed according to the service acknowledgment. With these technical solutions, the number of service processing channels displayed by the front-end equipment is reduced, and thus the time required to process services is reduced and the probability of processing services successfully is increased. | 02-25-2016 |
20160063595 | Automatically Pre-Customizing Product Recommendations for Purchase - An example system includes a configuration engine and a product builder. The configuration engine is executable to retrieve a template based on a product selection selecting a product and to provide the template to a user for display via a configurator. The configuration engine is further executable by the one or more computing devices to receive customization data including one or more of configuration data for configuring a template associated with the product and asset data describing one or more digital assets for the template. The product builder is executable to build a user-customized version of the product using the template and the customization data and to automatically pre-build one or more customized product recommendations in association with the user-customized version of the product based on the customization data and one or more templates associated with one or more customizable product recommendations. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063596 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING READING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON LINGUISTIC DIFFICULTY - System and method of automatically generating recommendation digital content works to reader based on the reading difficulty thereof, and more specifically linguistic difficulty. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the reading difficulty level of each reference digital content work or candidate recommendation digital content work is graded through an automated process by using a difficulty model. The difficulty model can be established through a machine learning process and correlates reading difficulty with a plurality of attributes, including linguistic attributes and/or reader behavior attributes. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063597 | Product Recommendation Based On Geographic Location And User Activities - Example systems and methods for recommendation based on geographic location and user activities are described. In one implementation, a method may receive geographic information associated with a user. The method may also retrieve a circumstance parameter associated with the geographic information and identify one or more items based on the graphic information and the circumstance parameter. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063598 | SOCIAL GIFTING - A system and method for a social gifting application are described. The system accesses social network data of contacts of a social network of a user from a social network service provider, and marketplace data of the contacts and the user from a marketplace application. A gift event is identified based on the social network data of a contact of the user. A gift recipient is identified from the gift event. A gift profile of the gift recipient is generated based on the social network data of the gift recipient. The system accesses gift parameters of the user and product availability from the marketplace application and generates a gift suggestion based on the gift event of the gift recipient, the gift profile of the gift recipient, and gift parameters of the user. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063599 | MATCHING A PRODUCT WITH OTHER PRODUCTS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for matching a product with other products. A purchase history module can maintain a purchase history (e.g., a collection of digital receipts) for each of a merchant's customers. The purchase histories can be searched to identify (or recommend) one or more products that are compatible with another product. In one aspect, a search identifying a product is sent from a mobile device to the purchase history module. The purchase history module identifies one or more other products compatible with the product. An indication of the one or more products is returned back to the mobile device. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063600 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAYING A PLURALITY OF INTERCHANGEABLE ITEMS FOR PURCHASE - A computer-implemented method, system, and software product for simultaneously displaying, via a display device, a plurality of product images based on received user selections to allow the user to visualize the appearance of plural products in combination, where at least some of the product images were captured by an image capture device and present products arranged in a non-virtual space. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063601 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a first extracting unit and a creating unit. The first extracting unit compares a first list of a product or service created for a customer before purchase and a second list of a product or service purchased by the customer, and guesses and extracts a product or service which the customer has a potential desire to purchase. The creating unit creates a third list including the extracted product or service. | 03-03-2016 |
20160071170 | METHOD OF CREATING CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON USER RATINGS OF CONTENT WITH IMPROVED USER PRIVACY - A recommendation system provides improved privacy under the local model, in which users store their data locally, and differential privacy is ensured through randomization of ratings under the control of the user before submitting data to the recommender system. The recommender system performs a clustering on the data collected from a plurality of users and returns the results to the users. The users' devices fine-tune the recommendation based on locally stored, non-randomized ratings. The recommendation system provides a user-adjustable degree of privacy while still allowing for generating recommendations with a decent accuracy. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071182 | MULTIMEDIA RECOMMENDATION BASED ON ARTIST SIMILARITY - One or more multimedia recommendation candidates are identified for a user. For each of the one or more multimedia recommendation candidates, a similarity between a multimedia artist associated with that multimedia recommendation candidate and a preferred artist of the user is determined That multimedia recommendation candidate is recommended to the user if the similarity exceeds a threshold. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071183 | ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING DEVICE WITH EVENT-DRIVEN SERVICE - A sensor mechanism in an environmental monitoring device provides sensor data that represents an environmental condition in an external environment that includes the environmental monitoring device. Then, a control mechanism in the environmental monitoring device determines, based on the sensor data, an alert associated with the environmental condition and/or the external environment. Moreover, an interface circuit in the environmental monitoring device provides, based on the alert, a service offer to an electronic device of an entity (such as a user or an owner of the environmental monitoring device, a tenant, a property owner and/or a property manager), where the service offer includes information associated with the environmental condition. Next, the environmental monitoring device receives, via the interface circuit, a response to the service offer from the electronic device, where the response authorizes a service based on the environmental condition. Based on the response, the environmental monitoring device performs the service. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071184 | SERVICE-IMPROVEMENTS BASED ON INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS - A control mechanism in a system monitors inputs and outputs exchanged among components in combinations that provide services in environments, where the components in a given combination include at least one of: environmental monitoring devices in the environments and one or more of the partner electronic devices in the environments and/or service providers. Note that the inputs and the outputs from a given component in the given combination include: sensor data representing one or more environmental conditions in one or more of the environments, sub-services in the services, and/or compensation within the given combination for the sensor data and the sub-services. Moreover, the control mechanism stores the monitored inputs and outputs, and analyzes the monitored inputs and outputs to determine: sensor-data patterns, suggested services, and/or suggested sensor-data sub-contracting during the services and the suggested services. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071185 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DINING RECOMMENDATIONS - One embodiment provides a system that facilitates efficient use of a dining application by providing dining recommendations to a user. During operation, a server determines a plurality of labels associated with a plurality of users, where a label indicates dining preference information of a user, and where the dining preference information is based on historical information for the user. The server receives a request from a first user to determine dining preference information of nearby users. The server determines a location for the first user, identifies one or more second users located within a predetermined distance from the first user, and aggregates the labels associated with the second users. Subsequently, the server returns the aggregated labels to the first user. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071186 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - The information providing server obtains at least one of the first posted information on the plan posted by the user, the piece(s) of second posted information on the other plan(s) posted by the user, and the piece(s) of third posted information on the plan posted by the other user(s). Then, the information providing server identifies the subordinate rating criterion/criteria used for the user to rate the plan based on the obtained piece(s) of posted information, and presents the identified subordinate rating criterion/criteria to the user who rates the plan. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071187 | Electronic Marketplace Recommendations - A shared “universal” virtual shopping cart (“the cart”) may be provided by a host to enable information sharing between multiple disparate electronic marketplaces provided by various merchants. The host may obtain user information via the cart to improve interactions with a user. The host may recommend an item to the user that is offered at a lower price and related to an item retained in the user's cart. The host may also recommend items based on a user's purchase history, such as complementary items (e.g., up-sell items) and items other users may recommend. In some aspects, the host may compile best selling lists based on data from multiple electronic marketplaces. The host may also perform user specific operations such as indicate an item in a cart is a duplicate of a previous purchase and monitor a price and/or available quantities of an item in the cart. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071188 | MINING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FROM QUERY REFORMULATIONS - In various example embodiments, systems and methods to mine product recommendations from query reformulation is provided. In example embodiments, a search query is mapped to a particular product. Transition data for the particular product is accessed. The transition data includes values reflecting a number of search transitions between the particular product and other products in session sets of previous queries. One or more recommendations based on the transition data is determined and provided to the user. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078520 | MODIFIED MATRIX FACTORIZATION OF CONTENT-BASED MODEL FOR RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A recommendation system is implemented using modified matrix factorization on top of a content-based matrix to provide both user-to-item and item-to-item content-based recommendations while exposing the full depth of transitive relationships among recommendations. Content information such as features and characteristics may be represented in a usage matrix in which features are treated as users would be in traditional matrix factorization. Matrix factorization is applied to the “features-as-users” matrix to build a content-based model in which features and items are embedded in a low dimension latent space. User history is employed for system training by locating user vectors within the latent space. Recommendations that are near to the vector can be provided to the users along with explanations (e.g., a recommendation is given because of an item's proximity to a particular feature). | 03-17-2016 |
20160078521 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING A SERVICE FOR USE BY A PARTICULAR USER - A system for recommending a service for use by a particular user comprises a processor and a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium contains instructions for execution by the processor. The instructions cause the processor to perform the steps of selecting from a plurality of users similar users that are similar to the particular user, collecting services used by similar users, determining for collected services the level of satisfaction of similar users using the respective collected service, and recommending a service for use by the particular user from the collected services based on the determined levels of satisfaction of similar users. | 03-17-2016 |
20160086249 | GIFT SUGGESTION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for suggesting gifts include associating a first item identifier with a first user in a database in response to receiving at least one implicit action by the first user that is directed to a first item having a first item type that is identified by the first item identifier. A second user device of a second user is then detected as located at a physical merchant location. An association between the first user and the second user is then retrieved. In response to the first user being associated with both the second user and the first item identifier in the database, that the first item type that is identified by the first item identifier is determined to be available at the physical merchant location. A gift suggestion is then provided for display on the second user device that identifies the first user and the first item type. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086250 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS - Apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory computer readable medium that provide recommendations include determining personality traits of a sender and a recipient by applying a five-factor model to a plurality of datasets. Further, the method comprises associating a personality-product score with each of a plurality of products based on the personality traits and performing a need analysis on the user data to determine desired products from amongst the plurality of products. Further, the method comprises determining a multidimensional collaborative matrix by aggregating the personality traits, the personality-product score, the desired products, and product psychographic portfolio. Further, the method comprises determining an affinity score for at least one of the sender and the recipient towards each of the plurality of products based on the multidimensional collaborative matrix and recommending at least one product from amongst the plurality of products to the sender based on the affinity score. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092961 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING SHOPPING SUGGESTIONS TO IN-STORE CUSTOMERS - Various examples of methods and systems for providing shopping suggestions to in-store customers are described. In one implementation, a method may analyze store information specific to a store and customer information associated with a customer. The method may also identify one or more items as recommendation for the customer based on the analyzing. The method may further indicate the one or more items on a map of the store. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092962 | ASSISTANCE ON THE GO - A mobile computerized apparatus or method configured to coordinate towing facilities and roadside assistance providers and their available capacity to tow and provide roadside assistance and match users with those towing facilities and roadside assistance providers is disclosed. The apparatus or method may be configured to consider the following factors in matching the towing facilities/roadside assistance providers and users: (a) availability of nearby towing facilities; (b) telematics information from the vehicle to assist with the diagnosis/repairs; (c) preset preferences of the user; (d) insurance information (such as the type of the vehicle the user has and the user's home address); and (e) the capabilities of the towing facility. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092963 | BEHAVIOR SUPPORTING APPARATUS, BEHAVIOR SUPPORTING SYSTEM, AND BEHAVIOR SUPPORTING METHOD - A behavior supporting apparatus according to the invention includes a biological-information detecting unit configured to detect biological information of a user, a desire estimating unit configured to estimate a desire of the user on the basis of the detected biological information, and a behavior presenting unit configured to present behavior with which the user can enjoy at least one of a service and an article corresponding to the estimated desire of the user. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092964 | Electronic-Shopping Method and Apparatus - An electronic-shopping method and apparatus are provided. The electronic-shopping method includes obtaining information about at least two alternative commodities selected by a first user; sending, through a network, the information about the at least two alternative commodities to user equipment used by a second user, such that the second user performs selection from the at least two alternative commodities, where the second user is different from the first user and is designated by the first user; obtaining selection information of the second user on the at least two alternative commodities; and determining a to-be-purchased commodity from the at least two alternative commodities according to the selection information. Alternative commodities selected by a first user are sent to a second user for selection, which provides a socialized shopping solution in an electronic-shopping process. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092967 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO GENERATE SHOPPABLE CONTENT AND INCREASE ADVERTISING REVENUE IN SOCIAL NETWORKING USING CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISING - Methods and systems for increasing potential advertising revenue by incorporating shopping cart links into social media posts. The method may include receiving an input indicating a user request to add a shopping cart link to a social networking post associated with a user making the user request, the social networking post to be posted to one or more social networks, determining a cost for placing the shopping cart link in the social networking post, providing the determined cost to the user, receiving confirmation from the user to add the shopping cart link to the social networking post, and adding the shopping cart link to the social networking post. Any costs paid by the user to post the shopping cart link may be recovered from commissions or other similar payments received for each user that browses or purchases an item in the shopping cart link. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098776 | DETERMINING PREFERENCES OF AN ENSEMBLE OF ITEMS - In a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method for determining preferences of an ensemble of items. An ensemble of items is accessed, wherein the ensemble is user created, and wherein the ensemble of items is shared such that the ensemble of items is viewed by others. User activity associated with the ensemble of items is tracked. Preference information of the ensemble of items is determined based on the tracked user interaction. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098777 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELLING APPAREL - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide a garment that complements one or more figure characteristics. A garment is selected from a collection containing a number of garments each of which is categorized as being within one or more garment types. Information regarding a person's body shape is obtained. The body shape information is analyzed to identify at least one figure characteristic of the body shape. At least one garment type is identified that compliments the identified figure characteristic. Garments within the collection that are categorized as being within the identified complimentary garment type are identified. The identified garments are recommended. An input corresponding to a desired garment selected from the recommended identified garments is received. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098778 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING AND RANKING PRODUCTS - A method, system, and computer program product for locating a relevant product via a computer network includes receiving, at a client terminal, a search topic from a user and one or more attributes associated with the topic and assigning a rating to at least one of the attributes. A server is used to locate, at one or more information locations, at least two separate instances of the topic and at least two information fields, each field related to one of the instances the topic. Content in each of at least two of the information fields is associated with at least one of the attributes and the content in each of the at least two information fields associated with an attribute is compared against each other. A score to the content of each compared instance of content is assigned based on the comparing. The attributes are prioritized and the located instances of the topic are ranked based on the prioritizing and the score of content associated with the topic. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098784 | GENERATING A USER DASHBOARD ASSOCIATED WITH ENSEMBLES OF RETAIL ITEMS - In a computer-implemented method for generating a dashboard associated with ensembles of retail items, user activity associated with ensembles of retail items is accessed. A dashboard for displaying the ensembles of retail items associated with the user activity is generated. | 04-07-2016 |
20160104229 | UNIVERSAL MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAMILIES OF PRODUCTS FROM MULTIPLE VENDORS AND SOURCES - A “slide-by” display on a computing device includes several sliding, movable, editable display strips of products that slide by swiping gesture. The display may be shared with another user for display on that user's computer. A user-selectable binary locking indicator is associated with each product. Strips without locked products are repopulated, upon user instruction, with products that are relevant to the locked products and meet user-specified constraints. Correlated style codes or category and subcategory information determine relevance. A shopping cart enables purchase from various merchants, with each merchant processing payment. User's may request and receive notifications relating to products. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110794 | E-COMMERCE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is item recommender that uses a model trained using a combination of at least visual item similarity training data and social activity training data. The model may be used, for example, to identify a set of recommended products having similar visual features as a given product. The set of recommended products may be presented to the user along with the given product. The model may be continuously updated using feedback from users to identify the features considered to be important to the users relative to other features. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110795 | IN-STORE SOCIAL POLLING - A system and method for providing in-store social polling may receive request data and polling audience selection data from a consumer. The request data may be sent to multiple polling audience users associated with the selection data from the consumer. Response data associated with the request data is received from the polling audience users and the received response data is aggregated. The aggregated received response data is presented to the consumer. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117752 | RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - A method for providing recommendations for customers is described. The method comprises obtaining transaction data associated with one or more products being purchased by a customer. The method further comprises generating a customer household graph, wherein the customer household graph comprises a customer household node associated with the customer, a product superset node, and one or more product nodes associated with the product superset node. Further, at least one product metadata node associated with each of the one or more product nodes is determined. Further, at least one user node is associated with the customer household node based on the at least one product metadata node. Further, a user group node associated with the customer household node is determined based on the at least one user node. Further, one or more recommendations to be provided to the user are ascertained. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117753 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERSONALIZED CONTENT-SHARING AND GIFTING VIA A COMMUNICATION MEDIUM - The present disclosure describes one or more apparatuses and methods to allow users to generate a greeting card by defining a theme, a personalized message, content, and optionally a gift. | 04-28-2016 |
20160125499 | SHOE AND/OR INSOLE SELECTION SYSTEM - Embodiments are directed towards recommending a shoe and insole combination for a consumer. A variety of shoe information, insole information, and consumer foot information may be determined, which may include heel width, a width or shape, a length, a height, and arch characteristics. The foot information, the shoe information for a plurality of shoes, and the insole information for a plurality of insoles may be compared to determine at least one combination of shoe and insole that is compatible with the consumer's foot. Based on this comparison of foot information, shoe information, and insole information, a recommendation of at least one shoe and insole combination may be determined and provided to a user and/or the consumer. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125500 | PROFIT MAXIMIZATION RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR RETAIL BUSINESSES - A method includes receiving an identification code for an item selected for purchase by a customer in a retail store, identifying at least one item similar to the customer-selected item, identifying at least one item related to the customer-selected item, calculating a value for a first expected profit for a first sale of the customer-selected item and the similar item, calculating a value for a second expected profit for a second sale of the customer-selected item and the related item, sorting the first sale and the second sale in an order based on the value for the first expected profit and the value for the second expected profit, and providing information associated with the first sale and the second sale, the information for use in recommending the similar item or the related item for purchase by the customer in the retail store. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125501 | PREFERENCE-ELICITATION FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-TIME PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION - A system includes an option selection engine selects an initial subset of pre-selected products from multiple products for display to a user, where the products include multiple filtering options and multiple selection criteria. An elicitation engine prompts the user to provide input including input for the filtering options and input for the selection criteria and receives the filtering options input and the selection criteria input. A ranking and scoring engine receives the filtering options input and the selection criteria input and selects one method of multiple methods to calculate a score for the products and to rank the products using the score based on the filtering options input and the selection criteria input from the user. An option selection engine selects an updated subset of products from the plurality of products for display to the user based on the rank of the of the products using the score. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125503 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING PRODUCT INFORMATION - A method, an apparatus and a system for recommending product information is provided. The system acquires a product list comprising product information, such as product name and price indexes, on at least one product; sets product labels for the product information in the product list according to the product names; calculates a purchasing power index of a user and acquires personalized labels of the user; and, then generates a personalized product recommendation list for the user according to the purchasing power index, the personalized labels, the product labels, and the price indexes. Finally, the system can make a recommendation to the user based on the product recommendation list. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125508 | Methods And Systems For Adding Items To Existing Orders - Various examples of methods and systems for allowing placement of additional order before pickup of a pre-existing online order are described. In one implementation, a method may receive a first order placed by a user to purchase at least a first item and an indication of a first time as an estimated time for pickup of the first order. The method may also receive at a second time a confirmation by the user that confirms pickup of the first order at approximately the estimated time for pickup. The method may further provide a selection of one or more items for the user to purchase in addition to the first order. The quantity and variety of the one or more items of the selection may be based at least in part on a duration between the second time and the first time. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125517 | SENSORY-PREFERENCE-PROFILE-BASED SHOPPING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for sensory-preference-profile-based shopping are provided herein. | 05-05-2016 |
20160130012 | AIRCRAFT WITH A WING TIP COMPRISING A FUEL POD - An aircraft comprising a wing, the wing having a connection interface at the tip of the wing, and the wing being interchangeable between a first configuration in which a first wing tip is connected to the connection interface, and a second configuration in which a second wing tip is connected to the connection interface to replace the first wing tip. The second wing tip comprises a fuel pod for carrying additional fuel, and a wing tip device for improving aerodynamic efficiency. The wing may be designed for performance in both configurations. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132912 | POLL-BASED NETWORKING SYSTEM - Described is a poll-based system that provides an on-line network of products, goods and services that are determined through polling each of the users. This system polls a user with a variety of questions. The system compares, in real-time, the current user's responses with all products, goods and services to identify which most similarly match the answered questions to that of the user. As the user progressively answers questions, the system updates the matching and presentation of products, goods and services. Thus, as the user answers polling questions, the selected answers are compared against the selected descriptions of other products, goods and services to generate a likelihood of match between the user and each of the products, goods and services. The profiles of products, goods and services that have a likelihood of match within a predetermined threshold are then presented, including links within the profile for specific purchases. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132953 | Recommendation Engine - A computer method and system provide means for recommending an organization to a user. The system includes a database of business relationships between organizations. A user may search for an organization according to search criteria and the system will select a set of organizations that match the criteria. The organizations may be displayed based on the relevance of the selected organization and the similarity of organizations connected to the selected organizations. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132954 | Recommender System Employing Subjective Properties - Example systems and methods of recommending an item are presented. In one example, preference values for items by multiple users, as well as property values for multiple properties of the items by the users, are accessed. Reference property values for the properties of the items are generated based on the property values. Average deviations from the reference property values for the properties across a first group of the items by a target user are generated. Expected property values for the properties of a second group of the items for the target user are generated based on the reference property values and the average deviations. Preference values of the target user for the second group of the items are estimated based on the expected property values. At least one of the second group of the items is recommended to the target user based on the estimated preference values. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140643 | Multilingual Content Based Recommendation System - Example apparatus and methods access multiple sources of information concerning features for applications, clean the data from the multiple sources, extract features from the cleaned data, selectively weight the sources, data or extracted features and produce a feature vector. The feature vector may then be used in a single language feature space or in a multi-language feature space. Feature spaces may then be used to find similarities between applications to facilitate recommending applications. In one embodiment, different feature spaces may be connected using a graph where nodes represent items and edges represent similarity relationships between items based on related feature spaces. Traversing the graph may allow similarities to be found that might not otherwise be possible. For example, while there may be no direct English to Hebrew similarity relationship, there may be English to French and French to Hebrew relationships that can be followed in the graph. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140644 | RECOMMENDING FOOD ITEMS BASED ON PERSONAL INFORMATION AND NUTRITIONAL CONTENT - The present invention extends to systems, methods, and computer program products for recommending food items based on personal information and nutritional content. A registered customer has members in a customer group. The registered customer provides nutritional information for members of the group (e.g., family members) to a merchant computer system. The merchant computer system uses the nutritional information to recommend food items to the customer. As a customer shops, the merchant computer system compares the nutritional content of the shopping cart items with nutritional needs of the customer. Recommendations are furnished to the customer based on the shopping cart content and the nutritional needs of the customer. | 05-19-2016 |
20160148296 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PROFILE ASSOCIATED WITH A CARDHOLDER - A computer-implemented method for providing a profile associated with a cardholder to a suggestion computing device is provided. The method is implemented using a computing device in communication with one or more memory devices. The method includes retrieving, from the one or more memory devices, stored transaction data associated with a plurality of purchases made by a cardholder using a payment card and processed over a payment network. The method additionally includes determining at least one interest of the cardholder based on the stored transaction data, storing the at least one determined interest in a profile associated with the cardholder, and transmitting the cardholder profile to the suggestion computing device for use in suggesting one or more goods to the cardholder. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148297 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING LIMITED CHOICES WHICH ARE PERSONALIZED AND RELEVANT TO A CUSTOMER - A method of recommending limited choices which are personalized and relevant to a customer in real-time, in which steps thereof are implemented by a computer, the method comprising: receiving data across different categories of products; configuring a taste graph based on the received data; calculating a net affinity between any two products in the taste graph and exporting them as taste scores to a taste table; understanding the customer based on context and behavior from different customer information sets; generating scores for the different customer information sets; determining different weightages for each score to calculate a net score associated with each product for the customer; and recommending limited choices which are personalized and relevant to the customer in real-time based on the descending order of the value of the net score associated with the product. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148298 | PHOTO BASED USER RECOMMENDATIONS - Photos taken by a user over a period of time are accessed to obtain a location history and visual features of the photos. A user profile is generated from the location history and the visual features. Recommendations are provided to the user based on at least one of the location history and the user profile. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148299 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING LOCATION-BASED GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods and systems for generating location-aware group recommendations are discussed. For example, a method can include operations for receiving a group recommendation request, accessing user profile data associated with members of the group, and generating a group recommendation. The group recommendation request can be received at a network-based system and include identification of a first and second user as well as information identifying a current location associated with the first and second users. Accessing the user profile information can include accessing user profile information for both the first and second users. The group recommendation can be generated based on the current location data and a combination of at least a portion of the user profile data from the first and second users. | 05-26-2016 |
20160162972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CURATION AND RECOMMENDATION OF APPLICATIONS AND ACCESSORY DEVICES TO PROVIDE EXPANDED USER EXPERIENCE - Systems and methods of recommending at least one new accessory device to provide an expanded user experience with one or more of the applications stored on a user device are disclosed that include retrieving, by a server, device information data from a user device, retrieving, by the server, accessory information data from one or more accessory devices determined to be communicatively coupled to the user device within a predetermined period of time according to the retrieved device information data, retrieving, by the server, application data from the user device for applications stored on the user device, and recommending, by the server that is communicatively coupled to a storage device having a database of applications and user experience data, at least one new accessory device to the user device according to user experience data, the retrieved application data, the retrieved device information data, and the accessory information data. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162973 | PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORD MEDIUM - Provided is a method, system, and a computer-readable recording medium for providing a personalized recommendation of products. The method may include extracting product recommendations corresponding to a prescribed recommendation time period using two or more purchase cycle algorithms, the purchase cycle algorithms configured to calculate purchase cycles of products for a customer. The method may further include performing performance evaluation, using a processor, with respect to the product recommendations extracted using each of the purchase cycle algorithms, and recommending to the customer the product recommendation extracted from the purchase cycle algorithm having a highest ranking based on the performance evaluation. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162974 | PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORD MEDIUM - Provided is a method, system, and a computer-readable record medium for providing a personalized recommendation of products. The method of providing a personalized recommendation of products may include obtaining a first recommendation result using each of two or more single recommendation algorithms, performing a first performance evaluation, using a processor, with respect to the first recommendation result from each of the single recommendation algorithms, obtaining a second recommendation result based on the first recommendation result from each of the two or more single recommendation algorithms using a hybrid recommendation algorithm, the hybrid recommendation algorithms being different than each of the two or more single recommendation algorithms, performing a second performance evaluation, using the processor, with respect to the second recommendation result from the hybrid recommendation algorithm, and listing product recommendations after selecting a recommendation algorithm having a priority using the first performance evaluation and the second performance evaluation. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162975 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS BY GENERATING TRANSITION PROBABILITY DATA WITH DIRECTED CONSUMPTION - Systems and methods of directed item consumption recommendations are disclosed which include generating, with a server, empirical transition matrix data that includes row data for a first item and column data for a second item, and an entry in the empirical transition matrix data for a number of users that acquire the second item after the first item, generating, with the server, metadata transition matrix data by partitioning items for each item metadata type, setting a uniform transition probability for all items in the partition, and summing the uniform transition probabilities across all metadata types, generating, with the server, transition probability matrix data by multiplying the metadata transition matrix data with a weight parameter, adding the result to the empirical transition matrix data, and normalizing each row, and providing item recommendations to a user computing device communicatively coupled to the server according to the generated transition probability matrix data. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162976 | PUSH-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for pushing a recommendation to a user. That is, a recommendation may be pushed to a device of the user based upon a triggering event associated with the user. The recommendation may be provided, for example, without user solicitation for the recommendation. In one example, a recommendation component may observe that the user frequently stops for ice cream on Fridays after work (e.g., based upon prior social network check-ins). Accordingly, on the following Friday, the recommendation component may push a recommendation to the user's device to visit a particular grocery store on the way home from work that is within 10 minutes of the user's home so that the user can avoid melting ice cream (e.g., a location constraint may be applied to choose a grocery store that is relatively close to the user's home). | 06-09-2016 |
20160171588 | PROVIDING PRODUCT ADVICE RECOMMENDATION | 06-16-2016 |
20160171589 | PERSONALIZED APPLICATION RECOMMENDATIONS | 06-16-2016 |
20160171590 | PUSH-BASED CATEGORY RECOMMENDATIONS | 06-16-2016 |
20160171594 | Method and a Device for Searching Premium Merchant Based on an Intelligent Terminal | 06-16-2016 |
20160180437 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION WITH ONTOLOGY-LINKED PRODUCT REVIEW | 06-23-2016 |
20160180438 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION WITH PRODUCT REVIEW ANALYSIS | 06-23-2016 |
20160180439 | EXPRESSIONS OF USER INTEREST | 06-23-2016 |
20160180440 | RETAIL STORE MOTION SENSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | 06-23-2016 |
20160180441 | ITEM PREVIEW IMAGE GENERATION | 06-23-2016 |
20160180442 | ONLINE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON OFF-SITE ACTIVITY | 06-23-2016 |
20160180443 | DELIVERING OPTIONS FOR TAILORED CONTENT | 06-23-2016 |
20160189257 | USER INTERFACE AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING ITEMS TO USERS - Improved user interfaces and methods are provided for presenting item recommendations to a user when the user selects an item to add to an electronic shopping cart. In response to the user's selection, a page generation process generates and returns a page that includes a condensed shopping cart portion and a recommendations portion. The condensed shopping cart portion may include a link to an additional page that includes controls for editing the shopping cart and/or includes additional information regarding contents of the shopping cart. The recommendations portion may include multiple recommendations sections that are populated using different respective item selection methods. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189273 | EVENT AND LOCATION BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods are presented for generating and causing presentation of recommendations of one or more portable articles suitable for a desired location. In some embodiments, the system receives a set of identification data from a set of portable articles and a set of location data indicative of a set of locations corresponding to one or more portable articles of the set of portable articles. The system generates a set of associations between the set of identification data and the set of location data. The system receives a desired location of the set of locations. The system generates a recommendation of one or more recommended portable articles from the set of portable articles and causes presentation of the recommendation on a user interface of a user device. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189274 | FASHION ADMINISTRATION - A system may include a feature detector, an information gatherer, a trend identifier, a fashion database, a preference identifier, and a recommendation engine. The feature detector may analyze images including visual data showing apparel. The feature detector may determine characteristics of the apparel. The information gatherer may identify non-visual data related to the images and may derive non-visual details related to the apparel. The trend identifier may identify defined trends embodied by the apparel based on the characteristics of the apparel. The fashion database may store and categorize fashion metrics of the apparel, including the characteristics, the defined trends, and the non-visual details related to the apparel. The preference identifier may identify fashion preferences of a customer. The recommendation engine may present a fashion recommendation to the customer based at least in part on a comparison of the fashion preferences of the customer and the fashion metrics. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196601 | CONTEXTUAL SOLICITATION IN A STARTER APPLICATION | 07-07-2016 |
20160196602 | Determining a Size of an Item Based on Comparisons of Dimensional and Stretch Data | 07-07-2016 |
20160203576 | PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT A PROPOSED SERVICE FOR A USER BASED ON USER-SPECIFIC LOCATION INFORMATION | 07-14-2016 |
20160253737 | DETERMINING MERCHANT RECOMMENDATIONS | 09-01-2016 |
20160253738 | INFERRING USER PREFERENCES FROM AN INTERNET BASED SOCIAL INTERACTIVE CONSTRUCT | 09-01-2016 |
20160379176 | DETECTION AND INTERPRETATION OF VISUAL INDICATORS - Devices, systems and methods are disclosed that detect and interpret the meaning of visual indicators (such as LEDs) of devices, and provide information and solutions to potential malfunctions to users. For example, image data of the visual indicators can be captured by an image capture device (such as a camera). The image data may then be analyzed to identify an object captured in the image data. Luminescence of pixel values in the image data corresponding to a visual indicator of the object may be used to determine a sequence of the visual indicator. Then, information corresponding to the meaning of the sequence may be sent to a device of a user or owner of the object. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379292 | Application Management - The claimed subject matter includes techniques for application management including a managed application storefront module to return an access mechanism for a subset of purchasable applications to a storefront based on user information. An example system can also include a recording module to store usage information for the subset of purchasable applications accessed from the storefront. The usage information can include the user information, organization information, and an application version for each of the subset of purchasable applications accessed by the user. Another example system can include an administrative module to regulate access of the user, based on information recorded by the recording module, to a purchasable application of the subset of purchasable applications. In an example, this application management system, and its related techniques, can be used in ground up trial of applications by a large number of users, such as employees. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379294 | STORAGE MEDIUM, METHOD, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL - The present invention provides a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer of a portable terminal including a display device to function as: a registration unit accepting registration of user information including at least information about a swing characteristic of a user; an accepting unit accepting input of specifying information that specifies a golf product; a calculation unit reading out information of the golf product specified by the specifying information from a database and calculating a degree of fitting of the golf product to the user based on the readout information and the user information; and a display control unit causing the display device to display a calculation result of the calculation unit. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379295 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL EXPERIENCES - A method for recommending products. The method may include receiving an identification element associated with an image or a visual code captured by a user. The method may include identifying a first item associated with the identification element, whereby the first item is a product or a service. The method may include identifying at least one of a tag and a keyword associated with the first item. The method may include identifying social media interactions within a social media network that reference at least one of the first item, the tag, and the keyword, whereby the social media network is associated with the user. The method may further include identifying a second item referenced in the social media interactions, whereby the second item is a product or a service. The method may also include determining a score for the second item based on an algorithm. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379320 | Analyzing User Access of Media For Meal Plans - A system selects meals according to a user's tastes and presents media files instructing execution of the meal. User interactions with the media file are monitored and evaluated to determine whether the media file is viewed, viewed for inspiration, and/or viewed while executing the meal. Actions monitored and evaluated may include movement of a user device during a viewing, pausing of playback, appropriateness of pausing locations to meal preparation steps, and orientation of the device. The occurrence or non-occurrence of these actions is evaluated for one or more viewings of the media file to determine whether the media file was viewed for execution or only inspiration. A profile of the user is updated according to the determination of whether or not the media file was viewed for execution. | 12-29-2016 |
20170236131 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR LEVERAGING CUSTOMER AND COMPANY DATA TO GENERATE RECOMMENDATIONS AND OTHER FORMS OF INTERACTIONS WITH CUSTOMERS | 08-17-2017 |
20170236182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING A RECOMMENDATION OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE BASED ON INFERRING A DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTIC OF A CUSTOMER | 08-17-2017 |
20170236183 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING VISUALLY SIMILAR ITEMS | 08-17-2017 |
20170236185 | Photorealistic Recommendation of Clothing and Apparel Based on Detected Web Browser Input and Content Tag Analysis | 08-17-2017 |
20170236186 | SOCIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM ADAPTED THERETO | 08-17-2017 |
20180025395 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING DATA SETS AND GENERATING PERSONALIZED ECOMMENDATIONS | 01-25-2018 |
20180025405 | PRESENTATION OF CONTENT ITEMS SYNCHRONIZED WITH MEDIA DISPLAY | 01-25-2018 |
20180025406 | DETERMINING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON USER INTENT | 01-25-2018 |
20190147520 | IN-STORE SHOPPER LOCATION-BASED GIFT IDEA DETERMINATION | 05-16-2019 |
20190147523 | E-Wallet Store Injection Search Apparatuses, Methods and Systems | 05-16-2019 |
20220138827 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING HAIR EXPOSURE TO HARMFUL LIGHT AND RECOMMENDING PERSONALIZED HAIRCARE PRODUCTS - A computer system and the computer-implemented method of generating and providing haircare product recommendations to a subject. The method comprises determining, by a computing device, an exposure amount of light impacting a subject's hair; determining, by the computing device, a damage assessment of the subject's hair based on the type of light and amount of light exposure; and providing, by the computing device, at least one haircare product recommendation to the subject, wherein the recommendation is directed to repair damage to the hair provided in the damage assessment. | 05-05-2022 |
20220138832 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND SYSTEM - A controller is provided that is configured to perform: obtaining information about shoes worn by a user when the user goes out; obtaining a moving distance on foot when the user goes out; managing the moving distance on foot in association with the shoes worn by the user when the user goes out; and proposing, to the user, replacement of the shoes worn by the user when an integrated value of the moving distance on foot associated with the shoes worn by the user when the user goes out is equal to or greater than a threshold value. | 05-05-2022 |