Contextual Product Recommendation Engine

摘要

Disclosed is a computer system that produces contextually relevant, customized and predictive product recommendations by combining a novel layered user interface and a server system implementing data mapping of one or more external product databases. The combining of these software of hardware components improves the quality and relevancy of product recommendations specifically when a user knows what they are interested in but not the products needed to accomplish these interests as well as when a user has more than one interest and wants product recommendations that take into account these multiple interests.

主权项

1. A method of receiving product recommendations, comprising: selecting one or more interests and a geographic area to search; querying a map server for maps of the region; querying a point-of-interest (POI) database for sites at which the user may pursue his or her interests within the region; querying an amenities server for other sites supportive of the user's activities within the region; querying one or more product databases for products useful to support the user's combination of interests at the specific POIs found; ranking these products using a data mapping procedure and filtering the products to accord with the user's personal characteristics and usage history; presenting an interface which displays the maps, annotated with POIs and amenities sites; and displaying these product recommendations to the user.