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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSILVIA CHRISTINA SARDELA BIANCHI, Victor Fernandes Cavalcante, Paul Marques Caldeira Junior, Sergio Varga
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A system for trading goods over a computer network based on image processing includes an image processor that analyzes a picture received from a user to build a description of entities in the picture and correlations among the entities, a description interpreter that analyzes the description to determine an underlying message in the picture and detect information regarding the user's interests, emotions and affinities to goods and services, wherein the information is stored with the user's profile, the user's list of items to trade, and the user's past transaction history, and a trade matching component that uses the user's profile and produces a ranked list of other users with items to trade, or intermediary trade steps, when another user initiates a new trading transaction.
A non-transitory program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executed by the computer to perform the method steps for trading on a computer network, the method comprising the steps of:
The computer readable program storage device of claim 13, the method further comprising broadcasting the ranked list of items to each user in the trade list.
The computer readable program storage device of claim 13, the method further comprising, if the second item in the second list of items is not in the first list of items, retrieving a second list of users with intention to acquire the second item;
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