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US 2014/0229324 A1Published application
Method and system for recommending items
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsGregory D. GUDORF, Manuele WAHL, Saurabh MATHUR, Vincent E. Duffy
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Abstract
The disclosure presents information about a user selected item. A determination is made about attributes of the selected item and from such attributes sample items are shown to a user which have similar attributes to that of the user selected item. The user is presented with a representation of the sample item and is provided with information as to what attribute of the sample item is similar to the attributes of the user selected item.
Claims24
A method for recommending items comprising the steps of:
- receiving input corresponding to a user selection of an item;
- determining at least two sample items that are related to the item using the input;
- and
- providing information corresponding to the at least two identified sample items.
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An apparatus for recommending items comprising:
- an interface configured to receive input corresponding to a user selection of an item;
- a processor configured to determine at least two sample items that are related to the item using the input;
- and
- the processor configured to provide information corresponding to the at least two identified sample items.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.