Patent ID: 8019642
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: generating a visual electronic interface configured to receive recommendation boost instructions from a user indicating a boost subject, the generating of the visual electronic interface being performed by a configured computer system; receiving the recommendation boost instructions indicating the boost subject from the user via the visual electronic interface, wherein the recommendation boost instructions indicate how strongly the boost subject should be recommended or how strongly the boost subject should be suppressed from being recommended, the receiving of the recommendation boost instructions being performed by the configured computer system; receiving a set of recommendations from one or more automated product recommendation systems, the set of recommendations having been selected by one or more selection models or user models of the one or more automated product recommendation systems, and the receiving of the set of recommendations being performed by the configured computer system; and automatically modifying the set of recommendations according to the recommendation boost instructions to enable control by the user of at least some of the recommendations of the automatically modified set, the automatic modifying being performed by the configured computer system.