RESORTING PRODUCT SUGGESTIONS FOR A USER INTERFACE

• US 20170206583A1
• Filed: 01/15/2016
• Published: 07/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Target Brands Inc. (Target Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Target Brands Inc. (Target Corporation)
• Inventors: Feierfeil, Andrew J., Ruekert, Joseph Owen, Muench, Thomas Fredrick, Springer, William, Gupte, Satyajit
• Granted Patent: US 10,832,304 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes generating a first list of products to recommend to a user. The following steps are then repeated: removing a first product from the first list and placing the first product in a second list wherein the order of the products in the second list determines the order that products appear on a user interface; and comparing each remaining product in the first list to the product placed on the second list and moving products that are similar to the product placed on the second list further down in the first list. A user interface is then generated from the second list to show suggested products to a user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating a first list of products to recommend to a user;

repeating the following steps at least once;

removing a top product from the first list and placing the top product in a second list wherein the order of the products in the second list determines the order that products appear on a user interface; and

comparing each remaining product in the first list to the product placed on the second list and moving products that are similar to the product placed on the second list further down in the first list; and

generating a user interface from the second list to show suggested products to a user.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein products in the first list are ordered based on a score for each product.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 wherein the score for each product is based in part on a similarity between a product vector for the product and a user vector for the user.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 wherein comparing a product in the first list to the product placed on the second list comprises determining a similarity between a product vector for the product in the first list and a product vector for the product placed on the second list.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein determining a similarity between a product vector for the product in the first list and a product vector for the product placed on the second list comprises determining a similarity score.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 wherein moving products that are similar to the product placed on the second list further down in the first list comprises altering the score of each product in the first list based on the similarity score to form revised scores.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the steps that are repeated are repeated until the first list is empty.

8. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that when executed by a processor causes the processor to perform steps comprising:

removing a product from a first list of products based on a score for the product;

adding the product to a second list of products;

for each product remaining in the first list of products, altering the score of the product based on similarities between the product and the product added to the second list of products; and

generating a user interface to display products in the second list of products.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 wherein adding the product to the second list of products comprises adding the product to an end of the second list of products.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 wherein generating a user interface to display products in the second list of products comprises placing products from the second list of products in the user interface based on the order of the products in the second list of products.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 further comprising removing a second product from the first list based on the altered scores and adding the second product to the second product list.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 further comprising for each product remaining in the first list of products after the second product is removed, altering the score of the product based on similarities between the product and the second product added to the second list of products.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 wherein altering the score of the product based on similarities between the product and the product added to the second list of products comprises determining a similarity between a product vector for the product and a product vector for the product added to the second list of products.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 wherein removing a product from a first list of products based on a score for the product and adding the product to a second list of products is repeated until the first list of products is empty.

15. A system comprising:

a memory containing a first list of products, each product in the first list of products having an associated score;

a processor;

generating a second list of products from the first list of products by sequentially selecting products from the first list of products to add to the second list of products based in part on a similarity between the product selected from the first list of products and the products in the second list of products; and

generating a user interface displaying the products in the second list of products as suggested products for a user.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein sequentially selecting products from the first list of products comprises after selecting the product from the first list of products, removing the product from the first list of products, adding the product to the second list of products, and altering the score of each product remaining in the first list of products based on the similarity between each product in the first list of products and the product added to the second list of products.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein selecting a product from the first list of products comprises selecting the product based on one of a score and an altered score for the product.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein altering the score of each product comprises altering the scores for products that are more similar to the product added to the second list of products such that products that are more similar to the product added to the second list of products have altered scores that cause a less similar product to be selected before the more similar product.

19. The system of claim 15 wherein generating a user interface displaying the products in the second list of products comprises generating the user interface such that products appear in the user interface in the order in which the products were added to the second list of products.

20. The system of claim 15 wherein the associated score of each product of the products in the first list of products is based in part on a similarity between a product vector for the product and a user vector for the user.