International Business Machines Corporation

James Hoey

William J Green

Chanchal Saha

Goods/service recommendation that includes: accessing a consumer's computerized calendar to retrieve consumer calendar data and identifying an event in the calendar data; removing calendar data that is restricted data; determining first key words of the event representative of the event; identifying a target from the event; determining second key words of the target being descriptive of the target; determining third key words of the calendar data being descriptive of the consumer; combining the first, second and third key words; determining similarities and relationships between the target and the consumer to find groups of key words that form the strongest similarities and relationships; identifying the group of key words as having the strongest similarities and relationships between the target and the consumer; using the group of key words having the strongest similarities to identify a recommendation for providing a goods/service to the target; and providing the recommendation to the consumer.

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Poughkeepsie, NY, United States of America

James Hoey