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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2022
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Visakhapatnam, IN;
Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy, Pune, IN;
Shikhar Kwatra, San Jose, CA (US);
Preethi Balakrishnan, Chennai, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Computer-based provision of recommendations includes determining an item of interest to a user and a geographic region of the user. The item, as available from different e-commerce websites (websites) of geographic regions that are different from the geographic region of the user are aggregated within blockchain. Social network data for the user is retrieved and processed using natural language processing to determine contacts of the user located in the geographic regions of the websites. A likelihood of each contact traveling to the geographic region of the user is determined based on the social networking data. A website is selected that offers the item and that corresponds to a geographic region of a selected contact. The selected contact of the user has at least a minimum likelihood of traveling to the geographic region of the user. The selected website is presented to the user as an option for obtaining the item.