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Providing recommended items

  • US 10,198,749 B1
  • Filed: 06/15/2015
  • Issued: 02/05/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

  • receiving, by a computer system associated with an electronic marketplace from a user computing device, an order for a requested item offered from the electronic marketplace and a selection of a delivery method from available delivery methods to a requested location, the delivery method based at least in part on using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to deliver the requested item to the requested location within a shorter predefined time frame relative to a predefined time frame of another one of the available delivery methods;

    in response to the selection of the delivery method that has the shorter predefined time frame, determining, by the computer system, a recommended item based at least in part on a comparison of an attribute of the recommended item and an attribute of the requested item and on an available UAV delivery space;

    causing, by the computer system, one or more UAVs to deploy to the requested location based at least in part on the order for the requested item and on the selection of the delivery method and absent of an order for the recommended item, the one or more UAVs retaining at least the requested item and the recommended item;

    based at least in part on deploying the one or more UAVs, sending, by the computer system to the user computing device, a notification that the requested item and the recommended item have been shipped and an option to order the recommended item; and

    causing, by the computer system, the one or more UAVs to deliver the requested item to the requested location based at least in part on the order and to deliver the recommended item to the requested location based at least in part on receiving a selection of the option to order the recommended item.

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