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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2010
Vijay Mital, Redmond, WA (US);
R. Donald Thompson, Iii, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Povey, Redmond, WA (US);
Gary Shon Katzenberger, Redmond, WA (US);
Vijay Mital, Redmond, WA (US);
R. Donald Thompson, III, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Povey, Redmond, WA (US);
Gary Shon Katzenberger, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An interactive recommendation system generates one or more recommendations (e.g., recommended products, travel destinations, etc.) for a user based on a recommendation model. The recommendation model includes one or more criteria that are used to analyze a datastore of user characteristics (e.g., a user's age, location, past online behavior, etc.) and generate one or more recommendations based thereon. The interactive recommendation system further presents a user interface that allows the user to interactively modify the criteria of the recommendation model and to apply the modified recommendation model to the datastore in order to generate one or more modified recommendations. In this manner, for example, the user can customize the recommendations he or she receives by interacting with the recommendation system to modify the recommendation model used to generate such recommendations.