System and process for generating user based virtual recommendation from user contact sources
OwnerJohn Andrew Garciainventor
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Abstract
A system and process provides consumers with product or services virtual recommendations from a list of contacts. In response to the consumer searching for or browsing a product or service, the system searches through stored contacts that have also interacted with the searched/browsed product or service. A virtual recommendation may be provided to the consumer based on the contacts' interaction with the product or service. In some embodiments, the virtual recommendation is displayed as a list of the contacts that had a previous consumer interaction with the product or service.
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A computer program product for generating an online user virtual recommendation for a product or service, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code being configured to:
- receive a message indicating the product or service is associated with an online search by a user;
- access an aggregated list of contacts associated with the user;
- search the aggregated list of contacts for recorded online consumer events performed by members of the aggregated list of contacts, wherein the online consumer events comprise consumer interaction with the product or service;
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- provide the user with a virtual recommendation associated with the product or service based on the recorded online consumer events performed by members of the aggregated list of contacts.
A computer program product for generating an online user recommendation for products or services, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code being configured to:
- search a user's computing device for a stored list of contact sources, and search a databased for a list of contact sources who are within the user defined community;
- compile the list of contact sources into a stored list of aggregated contacts;
- search the stored list of aggregated contacts for recorded online consumer events performed by members of the list aggregated of contacts, wherein online consumer events comprise consumer interaction with products or services;
- determine a virtual recommendation associated with products or services based on the recorded online consumer events performed by members of the aggregated list of contacts;
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- display the virtual recommendation associated with products or services for presenting to user in response to the user performing online browsing of a product or service, wherein the virtual recommendation is displayed as a person's image or avatar, name(s) or an icon(s) of individual members of the aggregated list of contacts having had a recorded online consumer event used to create the virtual recommendation in connection with the product or service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.