Patent ID: 9094472
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for centrally providing a profile of a user's degree of preference for one or more items across categories in a plurality of domains of interest in a taxonomy of preferences, the method comprising: (a) receiving, via a server from one or more users, identification of a user's degree of preference for an item from a plurality of predetermined indicators of degrees of preference and identification of one of a category or a domain of interest created by one of the one or more users; (b) associating, via the server, the user's degree of preference for the item with the category in the domain of interest of a plurality of domains of interest, the server dynamically adding one of the domain of interest or the category to a taxonomy of preferences; and (c) storing, by the server in a profile of the user, the user's degree of preference for the item in association with the category of the domain of interest, the profile identifying preferences of the user in the taxonomy of preferences across categories in the plurality of domains of interest.