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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2012
Applicant:
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Inventors:
Ioannis Pavlidis, Boulder, CO (US);
Anand Rajaraman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zoheb Vacheri, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0631 (2013.01); G06F 17/30702 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods for evaluating a user's interests and making gift recommendations using social media data. Interests and attributes of a user may be detected from social media content and products corresponding to the interests and attributes may be selected and presented as gift recommendations for the user. Methods are disclosed for resolving ambiguity as to interests reflected by textual data in social media content. Also disclosed are methods for inferring a user's interests from the interests of friends of the user.