Patent ID: 8577753
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for community-based guided shopping, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of shopping profiles associated with a product category selected by a user via a user interface on a client, wherein each of the shopping profiles has a corresponding shopping profile weight factor and comprises one or more products, and wherein each of the one or more products has a corresponding product weight factor; selecting a respective shopping profile from the shopping profiles to be presented to the user via the user interface based at least in part on the corresponding shopping profile weight factors of the shopping profiles; obtaining a user selection via the user interface of the respective shopping profile presented to the user via the user interface; performing an automated selection of at least one of the one or more products associated with the respective shopping profile based at least in part on the corresponding product weight factors of the one or more products, the at least one of the one or more products to be presented to the user via the user interface; monitoring one or more user interactions with the user interface when the user interface includes content associated with the at least one of the one or more products; determining, via a processor, an interaction weight for each of the one or more user interactions; and based at least in part on the interaction weight for each of the one or more user interactions, increasing or decreasing, via the processor, the corresponding shopping profile weight factor for the respective shopping profile and the corresponding product weight factor for the at least one of the one or more products within the respective shopping profile.