System and method for providing personalized recommendations

US9251527B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Inventors

• Devavrat Shah · Newton, US
• Vivek Farias · Newton, US
• Srikanth Jagabathula · New York, US
• Ammar Tawfiq Ammar · Cambridge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 29, 2012
• Grant date: Feb 2, 2016
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0204
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for providing a personalized recommendation from a series of partial preferences is presented. A preference distribution of a population including a plurality of weighted ranked lists is identified. A revealed preference of a user is compared to the plurality of ranked lists. An affinity weight between the user and each of the plurality of ranked lists is assigned, and a weighted average of each of the affinity weights is taken.