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

US8478664B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Joseph Xavier · Chelmsford, US
• George M. Ionkov · Seattle, US
• Jeffrey D. Lehman · Lynnwood, US
• Japan S. Doshi · Bellevue, US
• Sandy Wenling Qiu · Seattle, US
• Bobby P. Nath · Des Moines, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 25, 2011
• Grant date: Jul 2, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

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.