Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items
AssigneeAmazon.com, Inc.
InventorZhengrong Song
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Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention is a system and method of determining the age of an item recipient, such as a gift recipient. The age range for the gift recipient is estimated based at least in part on a customer order history of gifts purchased by the customer for the gift recipient. At a first date, a customer order for a first gift for the recipient is received, where the first gift is associated with a first age appropriateness designation. At a second date, a customer order for a second gift for the recipient is received, where the second gift is associated with a second age appropriateness designation. An age range associated with the recipient is then estimated based upon at least the first age appropriateness designation and the second age appropriateness designation.
Claims42
A computer implemented method of using a customer order history to estimate an age of a gift recipient and provide age appropriate gift recommendations, the method comprising:
- at a first date in a first year, receiving a customer order for a first item for the recipient, wherein the first item is intended as a first gift;
- accessing from an electronic database a first age appropriateness designation associated with the first item;
- at a second date in a second year, receiving a customer order for a second item for the recipient, wherein the second item is intended as a second gift;
- accessing from the electronic database a second age appropriateness designation associated with the second item;
- inferring in a computer a recipient age range based at least upon the first age appropriateness designation accessed from the electronic database and the second age appropriateness designation accessed from the electronic database;
- inferring in a computer a period wherein the gift recipient's birthday occurs based upon at least the first date and the second date;
- providing electronically a birthday reminder to the customer at least partly in response to the inferred period;
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- providing electronically the customer recommendations for age appropriate gifts for the recipient based at least upon the inferred recipient age range.
A computer implemented method of estimating an age range for an item recipient, the method comprising:
- at a first date, receiving a customer order for a first item for the recipient, where the first item is associated with a first age suitability designation stored in the electronic database;
- at a second date, receiving a customer order for a second item for the recipient, where the second item is associated with a second age suitability designation stored in the electronic database;
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- estimating in a computer an age range which corresponds to the recipient based at least upon the first age suitability designation accessed from the electronic database and the second age suitability designation accessed from the electronic database.
A computer implemented method of inferring what event is associated with gift giving based at least in part on a customer order history of gifts purchased by the customer for a recipient, the method comprising:
- at a first date, receiving a first customer gift order for a first gift for the recipient;
- accessing a first age suitability designation from an electronic database corresponding to the first gift;
- at a second date, receiving a second customer order for a second gift for the recipient;
- accessing a second age suitability designation from the electronic database corresponding to the second gift;
- inferring in a computer an age range corresponding to the recipient based at least in part in the first and second age designations accessed from the electronic database;
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- inferring in the computer the existence of annual event associated with the first gift and the second gift based at least upon the first date and the second date.
A computer implemented method of estimating an age range for an individual based at least in part on previous items purchased for or by the individual, the method comprising:
- receiving an order for a first item to be delivered to the individual, where the first item is associated with a first age designation stored in a first electronic database;
- receiving an order for a second item to be delivered to the individual, where the second item is associated with a second age designation stored in the first electronic database;
- estimating in a computer an age range associated with the individual based at least upon the first age designation and the second age designation;
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- recording in a second electronic database the estimated age range in association with an identifier that corresponds to the individual.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.