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Discovery of behavior-based item relationships

  • US 8,433,621 B2
  • Filed: 06/18/2012
  • Issued: 04/30/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of discovering item relationships, the method comprising:

  • storing, in computer storage, records of electronic shopping cart contents of each of a plurality of users of an interactive system that provides electronic shopping carts, said records of shopping cart contents identifying particular items selected by users to add to their electronic shopping carts, wherein the records of electronic shopping cart contents include, for particular users, records of recently removed shopping cart contents, said records of recently removed shopping cart contents specifying items that, within a selected period of time, were removed from the electronic shopping carts without being purchased; and

    generating, based at least partly on the records of electronic shopping cart contents, including the records of recently removed shopping cart contents, a mapping that maps items to corresponding sets of related items;

    said method performed by a computing system that comprises one or more computers.

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