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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2021
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Rahul Iyer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Victor Anthony Perry, IV, San Francisco, CA (US);
Prashant Chandrakant Saundade, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Dean Guo, Saratoga, CA (US);
Evren Korpeoglu, San Jose, CA (US);
Kannan Achan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Sandhya Ajit, San Jose, CA (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
A category recommender system includes a computing device configured to obtain customer information characterizing a customer's interactions on an ecommerce marketplace. The computing device is further configured to determine discovery category rankings for each category of items available on the ecommerce marketplace for the customer based on the customer information, determine repeat category rankings for each category of items available on the ecommerce marketplace for the customer based on the customer information, and determine item rankings for each item in the ecommerce marketplace based on the customer information. The computing device is further configured to merge the discovery category rankings, the repeat category rankings and the item recommendation rankings into final recommendations based on one or more predetermined merging criteria and provide the final recommendations to the customer.