ARRANGEMENT FOR FACILITATING SHOPPING AND RELATED METHOD
First Claim
1. An electronic arrangement (104, 110, 110a) for producing foodstuff recommendations and thus facilitating shopping in grocery stores and the like, said arrangement comprising a number of computer apparatuses, such as at least one server device, said arrangement comprising:
- a semantic context management entity (118, 203) configured to maintain semantic context-defining user information relative to a plurality of users, wherein said user information indicates user preferences relative to groceries based on obtained explicit or implicit preference information,a base item recommendation entity (120, 204-214) configured to determine, for a first user, a plurality of more generic grocery recommendations (302, 302a) based on the semantic context of the first user and the semantic contexts of a number, preferably a plurality, of other users considered as neighbors to the first user according to predetermined similarity criteria, anda product recommendation entity (122, 217, 218) configured to derive, for the first user, a shopping list (219, 308) incorporating a plurality of recommended products (306a) relative to a predetermined, optionally user-selected, store (105) offering such products, the recommended products representing more specific instances of the determined more generic grocery recommendations and being derived utilizing knowledge of the store'"'"'s product range or current stock (216, 304) as well as of the semantic context of the first user and preferably of said plurality of neighboring other users.
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Abstract
An executing electronic arrangement for producing foodstuff recommendations and facilitating shopping in grocery stores, includes semantic context management entity configured to maintain semantic context-defining user information relative to a plurality of users, which indicates user preferences relative to groceries based on obtained explicit or implicit preference information, a base item recommendation entity configured to determine, for a first user, a plurality of more generic grocery recommendations based on the semantic context of the first user and the semantic contexts of a number of other users considered as neighbors to the first user according to predetermined similarity criteria, and a product recommendation entity configured to derive, for the first user, a shopping list incorporating a plurality of recommended products relative to a predetermined store offering such products, representing more specific instances of the determined more generic grocery recommendations and being derived utilizing knowledge of the store'"'"'s product range or current stock.
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1. An electronic arrangement (104, 110, 110a) for producing foodstuff recommendations and thus facilitating shopping in grocery stores and the like, said arrangement comprising a number of computer apparatuses, such as at least one server device, said arrangement comprising:
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a semantic context management entity (118, 203) configured to maintain semantic context-defining user information relative to a plurality of users, wherein said user information indicates user preferences relative to groceries based on obtained explicit or implicit preference information, a base item recommendation entity (120, 204-214) configured to determine, for a first user, a plurality of more generic grocery recommendations (302, 302a) based on the semantic context of the first user and the semantic contexts of a number, preferably a plurality, of other users considered as neighbors to the first user according to predetermined similarity criteria, and a product recommendation entity (122, 217, 218) configured to derive, for the first user, a shopping list (219, 308) incorporating a plurality of recommended products (306a) relative to a predetermined, optionally user-selected, store (105) offering such products, the recommended products representing more specific instances of the determined more generic grocery recommendations and being derived utilizing knowledge of the store'"'"'s product range or current stock (216, 304) as well as of the semantic context of the first user and preferably of said plurality of neighboring other users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for automated generation of a grocery shopping list to be performed by an electronic apparatus or a plurality of at least functionally connected electronic apparatuses, comprising:
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obtaining and maintaining (201, 202, 222, 203, 220) semantic context-defining user information relative to a plurality of users, wherein said user information indicates user preferences relative to groceries based on obtained explicit or implicit preference information, such as allergy information input by a user or behavioral data like purchase history information obtained relative to the user, determining, for a first user, a plurality of more generic grocery recommendations based on the semantic context of the first user and the semantic contexts of a number of other users considered as neighboring the first user according to predetermined similarity criteria (204-213), selecting a grocery store according to a number of predetermined selection rules or user input, constructing, for the first user, an initial shopping list incorporating a plurality of recommended products, the recommended products representing the more specific instances of the determined more generic grocery recommendations and being derived utilizing knowledge of the store'"'"'s product range or current stock, as well as of the semantic context of the first user and preferably of said plurality of other users (215-219), and indicating said initial shopping list (308) to the first user for review, modification and/or acceptance preferably via the UI (user interface) of an associated service application. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
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