Social and contextual recommendations
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsShyam Sundar Rajaram, Rajan Lukose, Martin B. Scholz, Craig Peter Sayers
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Abstract
A method performed by a processing system includes receiving a recommendation from a source user in response to performing an action corresponding to an action context of the recommendation, determining whether the source user appears in social network information of a target user, and distinguishing a presentation of the recommendation to the target user in response to the source user appearing in the social network information of the target user.
Claims20
A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processing system, perform a method comprising:
- receiving a first recommendation from a first source user in response to performing an action corresponding to an action context of the first recommendation;
- determining whether the first source user appears in social network information of a target user;
- and
- distinguishing a presentation of the first recommendation to the target user in response to the first source user appearing in the social network information of the target user.
A method performed by at least one processing system, the method comprising:
- receiving a first recommendation from a first source user, the first recommendation designated by the first source user for receipt by a target user;
- storing the first recommendation along with an action context and source information that identifies the first source user regardless of whether the first source user appears in social network information of the target user;
- and
- providing the first recommendation and the source information to the target user in response to detecting that that an action corresponding to the action context has been performed by the target user.
A processing system comprising:
- a memory storing a recommendation manager;
- and
- at least one processor configured to execute the recommendation manager to:
- determine that a target user has performed a set of actions that corresponds to an action context of a set of recommendations from a set of source users;
- and
- provide the set of recommendations to the target user in a format that allows recommendations in the set of recommendations from source users in the set of source users that are in a social network of the target user to be identified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.