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Automatic recommendation of products using latent semantic indexing of content

  • US 6,615,208 B1
  • Filed: 09/01/2000
  • Issued: 09/02/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for automatically recommending textual items stored in a database to a user of a computer-implemented service, the user having selected one of the items, the method comprising the steps offiltering the textual items based upon pre-selected textual content, applying a latent semantic algorithm to the textual items to establish a conceptual similarity among the filtered textual items and the selected item, generating a first list of filtered items nearest to the selected item with reference to the conceptual similarity, filtering the first list of nearest items based upon pre-determined criteria to produce a second list of filtered nearest items, and outputting to the user a recommended set of nearest items to the selected item created from a subset of the second list based upon the conceptual similarity.

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