US 2014/0280176 A1Published application

Person-to-person viewing of recommended items as grouped into categories

AssigneeLucky Oyster, Inc.

InventorsMatthew Berk, Ryan Fritzky

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Abstract

A system that allows individuals to maintain lists of items of interest in an account, such as books, restaurants, hotels, clothes, etc. An individual can mark items in their account as recommended, after which other individuals in their sharing network can view the recommended items as grouped into categories. Items are displayed with action links (e.g. for purchasing, reservations, mapping, etc.) In an explore view categories are displayed for all of the combined recommended items from all of the individuals in the viewer's sharing network. When a category is selected from the explore view, an indication is provided for each item as to the individual who marked the item as recommended. An individual viewing a recommended item may also save the item to their own account as one to try later. The distribution of items between individuals through recommendations can be temporally and geographically mapped to identify patterns of interest.

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Dependent claims

A method in a computing system for person-to-person viewing of recommended items, the method comprising:

receiving entries of items of interest from a first individual and saving them in an account that is associated with the first individual;
designating a saved item in the first individual's account as a recommended item when input is received from the first individual for designating the item as a recommended item, the set of recommended items in the first individual's account being a subset of the set of saved items;
receiving entries of items of interest from a second individual and saving them in an account that is associated with the second individual;
designating a saved item in the second individual's account as a recommended item when input is received from the second individual for designating the item as a recommended item, the set of recommended items in the second individual's account being a subset of the set of saved items;
receiving a permission action performed by the second individual to allow the first individual to view the recommended items in the second individual's account;
enabling the first individual to be able to view the recommended items in the second individual's account based on the permission action having been received;
and
providing a category view wherein categories into which the recommended items in the second individual's account have been grouped are displayed.

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A computer readable storage medium with instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method for person-to-person viewing of recommended items, the method comprising:

receiving entries of items of interest from a first individual and saving them in an account that is associated with the first individual;
designating a saved item in the first individual's account as a recommended item when input is received from the first individual for designating the item as a recommended item, the set of recommended items in the first individual's account being a subset of the set of saved items;
receiving entries of items of interest from a second individual and saving them in an account that is associated with the second individual;
designating a saved item in the second individual's account as a recommended item when input is received from the second individual for designating the item as a recommended item, the set of recommended items in the second individual's account being a subset of the set of saved items;
receiving a permission action performed by the second individual to allow the first individual to view the recommended items in the second individual's account;
enabling the first individual to be able to view the recommended items in the second individual's account based on the permission action having been received;
and
providing a category view wherein categories into which the recommended items in the second individual's account have been grouped are displayed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.