Social media-based recommendations
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsValerie Nygaard, Ryan Lindsey Helft
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A user may request a recommendation for an item from other users. Other users may respond to the request by recommending for or against items. Users may up-vote or down-vote the recommendations or responses of other users. The recommendations of the other users may be used to identify items and provide one or more recommendations to the requesting user. The original question and the responses may form a conversation thread. The recommendations may be inserted into the thread as responses, may be presented alongside the thread, or may be presented at the end of the thread. The recommendations may be based on one or more attributes of the user. The weight of the recommendations provided by other users may vary.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- detecting that a user has requested a recommendation of an item;
- detecting a set of recommendations provided by one or more other users in response to the request;
- parsing the set of recommendations using a processor of a machine to identify a set of items in a database;
- selecting a recommended item from the set of items;
- and
- presenting information about the recommended item to the user.
A system comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- one or more modules coupled to the memory and configured to:
- detect that a user has requested a recommendation of an item;
- detect one or more recommendations provided by one or more other users in response to the request;
- based on the one or more recommendations provided by the other users, identify a recommended item;
- and
- present information about the recommended item to the user.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- detecting that a user has requested a recommendation of an item;
- detecting one or more recommendations provided by one or more other users in response to the request;
- based on the one or more recommendations provided by the other users, identifying a recommended item;
- and
- presenting the recommended item to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.