US 2014/0279263 A1 · SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS

Abstract

Systems, methods and computer program products for providing recommendations to consumers, where the recommendations are based on determinations of similarity between desired products and recommended products. In one embodiment, a system includes a server computer coupled to a network and a data store. The server computer receives from client devices user input that identifies the characteristics of a desired product. The data store contains a plurality of product listings. For each of a set of these listings, the server computer identifies characteristics of the listed product, and compares characteristics of the listed product to characteristics of the desired product. The server computer determines similarity measures for the individual characteristics, and determines an overall similarity score for the listed product based on the similarity measures for the individual characteristics. The server computer orders the listed products based on the similarity scores, and provides a recommendation output to the user.

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Dependent claims

A system for providing product recommendations to users, the system comprising:

a server computer coupled to a network;
and
a local data store coupled to the server computer;
wherein the server computer is configured to:
receive user input from one or more client devices via the network, wherein the user input identifies one or more characteristics of a desired product;
for each of a plurality of product listings stored in the local data store, identifying one or more characteristics of a corresponding listed product, comparing the one or more characteristics of the listed product to the one or more characteristics of the desired product, separately determining similarity measures for the one or more characteristics, and determining a similarity score for the listed product based on the similarity measures for the one or more characteristics;
ordering the listed products based on the similarity scores;
and
providing a recommendation output to the client device, wherein the recommendation output ranks one or more of the plurality of listed products based on the corresponding similarity scores.

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A method for providing product recommendations to users, the method comprising:

a server computer receiving user input from one or more client devices via a network, wherein the user input identifies one or more characteristics of a desired product;
the server computer retrieving a plurality of product listings from a data store;
for each of the plurality of product listings retrieved from the local data store, identifying one or more characteristics of a corresponding listed product, comparing the one or more characteristics of the listed product to the one or more characteristics of the desired product, separately determining similarity measures for the one or more characteristics, and determining an overall similarity score for the listed product based on the similarity measures for the one or more characteristics;
ordering the listed products based on the similarity scores;
and
providing a recommendation output to the client device, wherein the recommendation output ranks one or more of the plurality of listed products based on the corresponding similarity scores.

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A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer instructions that are translatable by a processor to perform:

receiving user input which identifies one or more characteristics of a desired product;
retrieving a plurality of product listings from a data store;
for each of the plurality of product listings retrieved from the local data store, identifying one or more characteristics of a corresponding listed product, comparing the one or more characteristics of the listed product to the one or more characteristics of the desired product, separately determining similarity measures for the one or more characteristics, and determining an overall similarity score for the listed product based on the similarity measures for the one or more characteristics;
ordering the listed products based on the similarity scores;
and
providing a recommendation output to the client device, wherein the recommendation output ranks one or more of the plurality of listed products based on the corresponding similarity scores.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems and methods for providing product recommendations

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