US 10,757,216 B1Granted

Group profiles for group item recommendations

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsScott Edward Van Vliet, Jeremy Daniel Johnson, Stefan K Yap

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Abstract

A network-based enterprise or other system that makes items available for selection to users may implement group profiles for group item recommendations. A request for item recommendations offered via the network-based enterprise may be received. Multiple user accounts of the network-based enterprise may be detected as associated with the request. A group profile that includes the detected user accounts may be identified. Group profiles may maintain behavioral data for the respective user accounts included in the group profiles, as well as behavioral data for the group profile as a whole. Item recommendations may be generated according to the group profile and provided to the detected users. Group profiles may available across multiple systems and devices so that item recommendations based on a group profile may be provided to different systems.

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Dependent claims

A content consumption device comprising:

one or more hardware processors and memory configured to:
detect a plurality of users or identifying devices within a physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device;
identify a plurality of user accounts, associated with the detected plurality of users or identifying devices within the physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device, for accessing content at the content consumption device;
identify a currently existing group profile comprising a behavior history maintained for the plurality of user accounts as part of the group profile, and corresponding to the identified plurality of user accounts associated with the detected plurality of users or identifying devices within the physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device, wherein the behavior history pertains to behavior associated with the plurality of users or identifying devices when together as a group within the physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device, and wherein the group profile further comprises account data associated with the plurality of user accounts respectively;
and
provide access to content via the content consumption device according to the group profile, including at least the behavior history maintained for the identified plurality of user accounts as part of the group profile, wherein the content is different than other content accessible by a user account of the plurality of user accounts.

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A method, comprising:

performing, by one or more computing devices:
receiving, from a content consumption device, identifying information associated with a plurality of user accounts of a network based enterprise, wherein the identifying information identifies users or devices within a physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device;
receiving a request from the content consumption device for one or more item recommendations;
identifying, based at least in part on the identifying information identifying users or devices within a physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device, the plurality of user accounts associated with the request;
identifying a currently existing group profile corresponding to the identified plurality of user accounts associated with the respective users or devices within the physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device, wherein the currently existing group profile comprises historical behavior data associated with the identified plurality of user accounts, and wherein the historical behavior data pertains to behavior associated with the users or devices when together as a group within the physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device;
and
providing the one or more item recommendations generated according to the group profile, including at least the historical behavior data associated with the identified plurality of user accounts, wherein the one or more item recommendations generated according to the group profile are different than other item recommendations generated according to a user account of the plurality of user accounts.

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A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium, storing program instructions that when executed by one or more computing devices cause the one or more computing devices to implement:

receiving, from a content consumption device, identifying information associated with a plurality of user accounts of a network based enterprise, wherein the identifying information identifies users or devices within a physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device;
receiving a request from the content consumption device for one or more item recommendations;
identifying, based at least in part on the identifying information identifying users or devices within a physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device, the plurality of user accounts associated with the request;
identifying a currently existing group profile corresponding to the identified plurality of user accounts associated with the respective users or devices within the physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device, wherein the currently existing group profile comprises historical behavior data associated with the identified plurality of user accounts, and wherein the historical behavior data pertains to behavior associated with the users or devices when together as a group within the physical consumption proximity of the content consumption device;
accessing the group profile to generate the one or more item recommendations based, at least in part, on the historical behavior data associated with the identified plurality of user accounts;
and
providing the one or more item recommendations.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.