Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Jeffrey D Lehman

Andrej Gregov

Jeffrey D Few

Jeffrey T Brownell

Aaron Michael Donsbach

George M Ionkov

Joseph Xavier

Bobby P Nath

Michael R Anderson

Japan S Doshi

Sandy Wenling Qiu

Jeffrey I Brownell

An interactive system generates personalized item recommendations for users based partly or wholly on ratings assigned by the users to particular items. The system includes an item rating user interface that enables a user to view, prior to rating an item, information regarding the types of items that will be recommended to the user if the user assigns a particular rating or type of rating to the item. The user interface thereby enables users to refrain from performing rating actions that will tend to result in low utility or 'poor quality' recommendations from the users' perspectives.

Recommendation system with user interface for exposing downstream effects of paricular rating actions

A system provides a user interface through which users can flexibly tag individual items represented in an electronic catalog with user-defined tags, such as text strings, and obtain recommendations that are specific to particular tags. The tags and tag-item assignments created by each user are stored persistently in association with the user, and may be kept private to the user or exposed to others. Once a user has assigned a tag to a number of items, the user (or another user in some embodiments) can request and obtain recommendations that are specific to this tag. These recommendations may be generated in real time by a recommendation service that identifies items that are collectively similar or related to the items associated with the tag.

Recommendations based on item tagging activities of users

Method and systems for providing item recommendations, displays categories (or tags) of recommended items where the categories are displayed using a quantity identifier indicative of the number of recommended items in that category. When a category is selected, a slide show viewer displays a number of items from the selected category.

Method and system for providing item recommendations

Recommendation system with user interface for exposing downstream effects of particular rating actions

User interface for a portion of a display screen

Growing community of inventors

Lynnwood, WA, United States of America

Jeffrey D Lehman