Person-to-person item recommendation with decline

摘要

A system that allows individuals to maintain lists of items of interest in an account, such as books, restaurants, hotels, clothes, etc. The system allows an individual to share an item in a list with another individual. When an individual wishes to share an item, the system may generate a share message to be sent by a selected method to a recipient. The share message may include a link for allowing the recipient to view the item on the system and provide a mechanism for allowing the recipient to accept or decline the share. The acceptance or, in particular, the rejection of the share establishes a positive or negative relationship between each individual and the item. The sharing of Items between individuals can be temporally and geographically mapped to identify patterns of interest, the value of an item to one or more people, or the strength of the bond between two or more people.

主权项

1. A method in a computing system for storing items and tracking person-to-person sharing of stored items, the method comprising:
maintaining a catalog of a plurality of items representing virtual objects and physical objects, wherein the plurality of items are substantially deduplicated such that no two items represent the same virtual object or physical object; receiving entries from a first individual of items in the catalog of interest to the first individual and saving them in an account that is associated with the first individual; receiving a request from the first individual to Initiate a share proms for sharing a saved item from the first individual's account with a second individual, and initiating the share process based on the request, the share process comprising:
generating a share message for sending the share to the second individual;providing the second individual with the identity of the first individual and the item being shared; andproviding the second individual with an option for accepting the share or declining the share; and recording if the second individual accepts the share or declines the share, and if the second individual accepts the share than saving the item in an account for the second individual, and if the second individual declines the share then not saving the item in the account for the second individual.