Electronically managing items in a wish list

• US 8,612,312 B1
• Filed: 03/30/2011
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Cohen, Jacob D., Edwards, Matthew M., Bansal, Nitin, Hsu, Jeffrey J., Le, Don
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosen, Nicholas D
• Application Number:
  US13/076,317
• Time in Patent Office: 993 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26.8, 705/26.81, 705/27.1
• US Class Current: 705/26.8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for electronically managing items in a wish list. In some embodiments, order information associated with an order of one or more items may be received. The order may be associated with a purchasing customer, and may indicate that the purchasing customer is purchasing the one or more items of the order. One or more wish lists that were presented to the purchasing customer prior to receiving the order may be determined. For each of the one or more wish lists that were presented to the purchasing customer, it may be determined whether at least one of the items of the order is referenced in the wish list. The reference to the ordered item may then be removed from at least one of the wish lists.

Claims

1. A system for electronically managing items in a wish list, the system comprising:

a data store that stores information regarding a plurality of wish lists, wherein each of the plurality of wish lists comprises references to one or more items; and

a computing device in communication with the data store and that is operative to;

receive order information associated with an order of one or more items, wherein the order is associated with a purchasing customer, wherein the order indicates that the purchasing customer is purchasing the one or more items;

determine two or more wish lists that were presented to the purchasing customer prior to receiving the order information;

for each of the two or more wish lists that were presented to the purchasing customer, determine whether the wish list includes a reference to at least one of the one or more items of the order; and

remove the reference to the at least one of the one or more items of the order from at least one of the two or more wish lists that were presented to the purchasing customer.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the reference to the at least one item of the order is removed from the at least one of the two or more wish lists that were presented to the purchasing customer based at least in part on a determination that the at least one item was selected by the purchasing customer from a user interface comprising display of the at least one of the two or more wish lists that were presented to the purchasing customer.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the reference to the at least one item of the order is removed from the at least one of the two or more wish lists that were presented to the purchasing customer based at least in part on a determination that a wish list owner associated with the at least one of the two or more wish lists is associated with a shipping address associated with the order.

4. A system for electronically managing items in a wish list, the system comprising:

a data store that stores information regarding a plurality of wish lists, wherein each of the plurality of wish lists comprises references to one or more items, wherein each of the plurality of wish lists is associated with a wish list owner identifier identifying a customer that created the wish list; and

a computing device in communication with the data store and that is operative to;

receive order information associated with an order of one or more items, wherein the order is associated with an ordering user, wherein the order indicates that the ordering user is ordering the one or more items;

determine whether the ordering user is a wish list owner associated with one or more of the plurality of wish lists;

for each of the one or more wish lists associated with the ordering user, determine whether the wish list includes a reference to at least one of the one or more items of the order; and

remove the reference to the at least one item of the one or more items of the order from at least one of the one or more wish lists associated with the ordering user.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the reference to the at least one item of the order is automatically removed from the at least one wish list in response to receiving the order information.

6. The system of claim 4, further comprising, prior to removing the reference to the at least one of the one or more items of the order from the at least one of the one or more wish lists, receiving a confirmation from the ordering user confirming that the at least one of the one or more items should be removed from the at least one of the one or more wish lists.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein determining whether the ordering user is the wish list owner associated with one of the plurality of wish lists comprises determining that a user identifier associated with the order matches a wish list owner identifier associated with the one of the plurality of wish lists.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein determining whether the ordering user is the wish list owner associated with one of the plurality of wish lists comprises determining that a customer name associated with the order is similar to a name associated with the one of the plurality of wish lists.

9. The system of claim 4, further comprising, prior to removing the reference to the at least one of the one or more items of the order from the at least one of the one or more wish lists, determining that the ordering user selected to view item information associated with the at least one of the one or more items of the order from a display of the at least one of the one or more wish lists prior to the ordering user ordering the one or more items.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the item information associated with the at least one of the one or more items of the order comprises at least one user review associated with the at least one of the one or more items of the order.

11. A computer-implemented method for electronically managing items in a wish list, the computer-implemented method comprising:

as implemented by one or more computing devices configured with specific executable instructions,

receiving order information associated with an order of one or more items, wherein the order information includes information identifying an order recipient to receive the one or more items of the order;

determining two or more wish lists associated with the order recipient, wherein each of the two or more wish lists comprises references to one or more items;

for each of the two or more wish lists associated with the order recipient, determining whether the wish list includes a reference to at least one of the one or more items of the order; and

removing the reference to the at least one of the one or more items of the order from at least one of the two or more wish lists associated with the order recipient.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein determining two or more wish lists associated with the order recipient comprises determining at least one of a wish list associated with a shipping address associated with the order and a wish list associated with an order recipient name included in the order information.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the reference to the at least one item of the order is removed from at least one of the two or more wish lists based at least in part on a determination that the at least one item was selected by an ordering user from a user interface comprising display of the at least one of the two or more wish lists.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the reference to the at least one item of the order is removed from the at least one of the two or more wish lists based at least in part on a determination that a uniform resource identifier associated with a user interface presented for display to an ordering user prior to receiving the order information includes identification information identifying the at least one of the two or more wish lists, wherein the user interface presented to the ordering user included item information associated with the at least one item of the order.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein removing the reference to the at least one of the one or more items of the order from the at least one of the two or more wish lists comprises decreasing a quantity associated with the at least one of the one or more items in the at least one of the two or more wish lists.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising removing a reference to an item that is similar to at least one of the one or more items of the order from at least one of the two or more wish lists.

17. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium having a computer-executable component, the computer-executable component comprising:

an order attribution component for;

receiving order information associated with an order of one or more items, wherein the order is associated with an ordering user;

based at least in part on user activity data that identifies content requested for viewing by the ordering user, determining one or more item lists that were presented to the ordering user prior to receiving the order information, wherein each of the one or more item lists comprises references to one or more items;

for each of the one or more item lists that were presented to the ordering user, determining whether the item list includes a reference to at least one of the one or more items of the order; and

removing the reference to the at least one of the one or more items of the order from at least one of the one or more item lists.

18. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more item lists include at least one of a wish list and a gift registry.

19. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the reference to the at least one item of the order is removed from the at least one of the one or more item lists based at least in part on a determination that the at least one item was selected by the ordering user from a user interface comprising display of the at least one of the one or more item lists.

20. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the reference to the at least one item of the order is removed from the at least one of the one or more item lists based at least in part on a determination that a uniform resource identifier associated with a user interface presented for display to the ordering user prior to receiving the order includes identification information identifying the at least one of the one or more item lists, wherein the user interface presented to the ordering user included item information associated with the at least one item of the order.

21. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the ordering user did not select the at least one item of the order from the at least one of the one or more item lists.

22. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the reference to the at least one item of the order is removed from the at least one of the one or more item lists based at least in part on a determination that an owner of the at least one of the one or more item lists is associated with a shipping address associated with the order.

23. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the reference to the at least one item of the order is removed from the at least one of the one or more item lists based at least in part on a determination that an owner of the at least one of the one or more item lists is associated with an address that is within a predetermined geographic proximity to a shipping address associated with the order.

24. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the order attribution component is further configured to remove a reference to an item that is similar to at least one of the one or more items of the order from at least one of the one or more item lists.

25. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the order attribution component is further configured to, prior to receiving the order information associated with the order:

in response to a request associated with the ordering user to view item information associated with an item from an item list presented to the ordering user, storing item selection information, wherein the item selection information comprises an item list identifier identifying the item list presented to the ordering user and an item identifier identifying the item associated with the request.

26. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 25, wherein the reference to the at least one of the one or more items of the order is removed from the at least one of the one or more item lists based at least in part on the stored item selection information.

27. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 26, wherein the reference to the at least one of the one or more items of the order is removed from the at least one of the one or more item lists based at least in part on a determination that the item identifier of the item selection information identifies the at least one of the one or more items of the order and the stored item list identifier of the item selection information identifies the at least one of the one or more item lists.

28. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 27, wherein the reference to the at least one of the one or more items of the order is removed from the at least one of the one or more item lists based at least in part on a determination that the item selection information further comprises at least one of a user identifier identifying the ordering user and a session identifier associated with the order.

29. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 25, wherein the item information associated with the item from the item list presented to the ordering user comprises at least one user review associated with the item.