DIGITAL WARDROBE WITH RECOMMENDER SYSTEM

• US 20140279186A1
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Juan, Wen-Hsiang, Tsai, Chun-I, Yu, San-Ching
• Application Number:
  US13/799,462
• Publication Number:
  US 20140279186A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations

Abstract

Wearable objects purchased by a user are added to a digital wardrobe associated with the user. The user can create and store various outfits from the contents of the digital wardrobe. A recommender system also accesses the digital wardrobe and provides recommendations of wearable items personalized to the user'"'"'s tastes.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, information regarding a first wearable item purchased by a user;

adding, by the processor, the first wearable item to a digital wardrobe of the user;

providing, by the processor, access to the digital wardrobe upon request from the user;

facilitating, by the processor, creation of at least one combination outfit of the first wearable item with other wearable items by the user;

storing, by the processor, a finalized combination outfit in the digital wardrobe;

recommending, by the processor, additional wearable items not included in the digital wardrobe for purchase by the user.

2. The method of claim 1, facilitating creation of the combination outfit further comprises:

providing, by the processor, images of the first wearable item and other wearable items to the user;

receiving, by the processor, user selection of the first wearable item and at least one of the other wearable items;

receiving, by the processor, input indicating user intention to create the finalized combination outfit from the first wearable item and at least one of the other wearable item; and

storing, by the processor, data related to the first wearable item and the at least one other wearable item as the combination outfit in the digital wardrobe.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein other wearable items are contents of the digital wardrobe.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein other wearable items are contents of a wish list associated with the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein contents of the digital wardrobe are purchased online.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the contents of the digital wardrobe are purchased in at a physical store.

7. The method of claim 1, recommending additional wearable items further comprises:

receiving, by the processor, metadata of the additional wearable items;

determining, by the processor, that the additional wearable items have metadata that matches metadata of contents of the digital wardrobe.

8. The method of claim 1, recommending additional wearable items further comprising:

generating, by the processor, a suggested combination outfit comprising a wearable item from the digital wardrobe and at least one of the additional wearable items;

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing, by the processor, an image of a suggested combination outfit created from contents of the digital wardrobe and at least one of the additional wearable items to the user.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

facilitating, by the processor, changes to an outfit by the user, wherein the outfit is stored in the user'"'"'s digital wardrobe and comprises at least two items from the digital wardrobe.

11. A computing device comprising:

a processor;

a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising;

purchase item receiving logic, executed by the processor, to receive information regarding a first wearable object purchased by a user;

adding logic, executed by the processor, to add the first wearable item to a digital wardrobe of the user;

access providing logic, executed by the processor, to provide access to the digital wardrobe upon request from the user;

outfit creation facilitating logic, executed by the processor, to facilitate creation of at least one combination outfit of the first wearable object with other wearable objects by the user;

outfit storing logic, executed by the processor, to store a finalized combination outfit in the digital wardrobe;

recommending logic, executed by the processor, to recommend additional wearable objects not included in the digital wardrobe for purchase by the user.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the outfit creation facilitating logic further comprises:

image providing logic, executed by the processor, to provide images of the first wearable object and other wearable objects to the user;

user selection receiving logic, executed by the processor, to receive user selection of the first wearable object and at least one of the other wearable objects;

user input receiving logic, executed by the processor, for receiving input from the user indicating that creation of the finalized combination outfit is completed.

13. The computing device of claim 11 wherein other wearable objects are contents of the digital wardrobe.

14. The computing device of claim 11, wherein other wearable objects are contents of a wish list associated with the user.

15. The computing device of claim 11, the recommending logic further comprises:

additional item receiving logic, executed by the processor, for receiving metadata of the additional wearable items;

match determining logic, executed by the processor, for determining that the additional wearable items have metadata that matches metadata of contents of the digital wardrobe.

16. A computer readable storage medium, comprising instructions, which when executed by a processor cause the processor to:

receive information regarding a first wearable item purchased by a user;

add the first wearable item to a digital wardrobe of the user;

provide access to the digital wardrobe upon request from the user;

facilitate creation of at least one combination outfit of the first wearable item with other wearable items by the user;

store a finalized combination outfit in the digital wardrobe;

recommend additional wearable items not included in the digital wardrobe for purchase by the user.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 16, further comprising instructions which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

provide images of the first wearable item and other wearable items to the user;

receive user selection of the first wearable item and at least one of the other wearable items;

receive input indicating user intention to create the finalized combination outfit from the first wearable item and at least one of the other wearable item; and

store data related to the first wearable item and the at least one other wearable item as the combination outfit in the digital wardrobe.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 16 wherein other wearable items are contents of the digital wardrobe.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 16 wherein other wearable items are contents of a wish list associated with the user.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 16, further comprising instructions which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

receive metadata of the additional wearable items;

determine that the additional wearable items have metadata that matches metadata of contents of the digital wardrobe.