Systems and Methods for Recommendation Scraping

• US 20150278916A1
• Filed: 03/30/2015
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC (WalMart Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores Texas LLC (WalMart Inc.)
• Inventors: Stoll, Nathan, Stensmo, Jan Magnus, Robinson, Stuart Payton, Ellerhorst, Andrew Mark
• Granted Patent: US 10,210,559 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Various embodiments of systems and methods for recommendation scraping include a method comprising receiving a content feed, wherein the content feed is associated with a holder and identifying at least one post within the content feed comprising a mention of a respective item. In many embodiments, the method can further comprise generating an item recommendation corresponding to the respective item, associating the item recommendation with a profile associated with the holder, and sending instructions to present the item recommendation to one or more users. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a content feed, wherein the content feed is associated with a holder;

identifying at least one post within the content feed comprising a mention of a respective item;

generating an item recommendation corresponding to the respective item;

associating the item recommendation with a profile associated with the holder; and

sending instructions to present the item recommendation to one or more users.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the profile associated with the holder corresponds to a user account associated with the holder.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining if a user account associated with the holder is active; and

if the user account associated with the holder is inactive;

generating the profile associated with the holder; and

associating the item recommendation with the profile;

or

if the user account associated with the holder is active;

corresponding the profile associated with the holder to the user account associated with the holder.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

if the user account associated with the holder is inactive;

sending an invitation to the holder to activate the user account; and

corresponding the profile associated with the holder and the user account upon activation of the user account.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the content feed comprises;

a social network content feed associated with the holder, a blog associated with the holder, a microblog associated with the holder, or an image collection associated with the holder.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the content feed comprises a weblog or microblog feed associated with the holder.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining if the mention of the respective item is at least one of;

a positive mention;

a neutral mention;

or

a negative mention.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

determining if the mention of the respective item is at least one of the positive mention, the neutral mention, or the negative mention.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the item recommendation includes an indication to initiate a transaction to purchase the item recommendation.

10. A method comprising:

receiving a content feed, wherein the content feed is associated with a holder;

identifying at least one post within the content feed comprising a mention of a respective item;

generating an item recommendation corresponding to the respective item;

associating the item recommendation with a profile associated with the holder; and

sending instructions to display the item recommendation to one or more users;

wherein;

the holder is within a respective trust network of each of the one or more users.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the content feed comprises;

a social network content feed associated with the holder, a blog associated with the user, a microblog associated with the holder, or an image collection associated with the holder.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the holder is identified as trusted by a respective user of the one or more users with respect to a first level category; and

the first level category comprises the respective item.

13. A system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors;

wherein the one or more programs comprise instructions for;

receiving a content feed, wherein the content feed is associated with a holder;

identifying at least one post within the content feed comprising a mention of a respective item;

generating an item recommendation corresponding to the respective item; and

associating the item recommendation with a profile associated with the holder.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the profile associated with the holder corresponds to a user account associated with the holder.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the one or more programs further comprise instructions for;

determining if a user account associated with the holder is active; and

if the user account associated with the holder is inactive;

generate the profile associated with the holder; and

associate the item recommendation with the profile;

or

if the user account associated with the holder is active;

corresponding the profile associated with the holder corresponds to the user account associated with the holder.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein:

if the user account associated with the holder is inactive;

send an invitation to the holder to activate the user account; and

correspond the profile associated with the holder and the user account upon activation of the user account.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the content feed comprises;

a social network content feed associated with the holder, a blog associated with the holder, a microblog associated with the holder, or an image collection associated with the holder.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the one or more programs further comprise instructions for;

determining if the mention of the respective item is at least one of;

a positive mention;

a neutral mention;

or

a negative mention.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the one or more programs further comprise instructions for;

determining if the mention of the respective item is at least one of the positive mention, the neutral mention, or the negative mention.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the item recommendation includes an indication to initiate a transaction to purchase the item recommendation.