Patent ID: 9262765
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for identifying and providing suggestions within a framework of a domain, wherein the domain is a computer system or framework that hosts and centrally manages multiple participants and provides a plurality of administrative services to the participants, the domain comprising a set of licenses and at least one environment; wherein the licenses define how data is shared between participants; wherein the at least one environment comprises a respective participant account for each participant, and a list of items to form the basis of suggestions; and wherein the domain is configured to share suggestions with participant accounts within the environment according to the licenses, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a message to register information of a behavior of a user in the at least one environment within said domain, said receiving a message causing one or more behavior processes to identify said behavior, identify at least one item associated with said behavior, identify an identity of said user, and store information obtained during said identifying, and one or more task processes to prepare at least one suggestion list using said information and a stored configuration, match and join item and user data in said environment, and associate and join item and user transactions; receiving a request from a participant account in said environment for suggestions to serve to said user visiting a request point within said domain where said participant account belongs to a participant belonging to a group of affiliated participants within said domain, said receiving a request causing one or more suggestion processes to identify, from said request, a request item, identify said identity of said user and attributes associated with said request, said one or more suggestion processes being further operable for identifying, from said request point, stored behavior information of said user visiting said participant account and stored behavior information of said user visiting accounts of said affiliated participants, and a list of suggestion methods and filters, said list being at least in part determined by a license of said participant account, said suggestion processes being further operable for applying one or more suggestion methods and filters from said list to a suggestion list set to aggregate suggestions into a resultant set of relevant suggestions; and responding to said request with served suggestions comprising said resultant set, said participant being enabled to offer said served suggestions, within said domain, on behalf of another affiliated participant of said group of affiliated participants.