US 8,478,664 B1Granted

Recommendation system with user interface for exposing downstream effects of particular rating actions

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsJoseph Xavier, George M. Ionkov, Jeffrey D. Lehman, Japan S. Doshi, Sandy Wenling Qiu, Bobby P. Nath

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Abstract

An interactive system generates personalized item recommendations for users based partly or wholly on ratings assigned by the users to particular items. The system includes an item rating user interface that enables a user to view, prior to rating an item, information regarding the types of items that will be recommended to the user if the user assigns a particular rating or type of rating to the item. The user interface thereby enables users to refrain from performing rating actions that will tend to result in low utility or “poor quality” recommendations from the users' perspectives.

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Dependent claims

An interactive system, comprising:

a server that provides network-based access to an electronic catalog of items, said server providing a user interface that includes functionality for users to rate individual catalog items;
and
a recommendation service that generates personalized recommendations of catalog items for users based at least partly on the ratings assigned by the users to particular catalog items;
said server configured to generate, for a user, a personalized page that provides functionality for the user to rate at least one catalog item, and to view, prior to rating the catalog item, information regarding items that would be recommended to the user by the recommendation service as a result of the user favorably rating the item, the personalized page thereby enabling the user to assess a downstream effect of favorably rating the catalog item before rating the catalog item.

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A computer-implemented method of notifying a user of a downstream effect of an item rating action, the method comprising:

providing a user interface that includes functionality for users to rate individual catalog items of an electronic catalog;
providing a recommendation service that generates personalized recommendations of items for users based at least partly on the ratings assigned by the users to particular catalog items;
determining, by a computer system, a set of items that are representative of types of items that would be recommended for the user by the recommendation service as a result of the user favorably rating a particular catalog item;
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notifying the user, via said user interface, of said set of items that are representative of types of items that would be recommended for the user as a result of the user favorably rating the particular catalog item, to thereby enable the user to assess a downstream effect of favorably rating the particular catalog item before favorably rating the particular catalog item.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.