Patent ID: 9070156
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer process for detecting item relationships, comprising: providing a user interface that includes functionality for users to interactively select individual items for viewing and to view the selected items; maintaining, in computer storage, user-specific session records that identify particular items selected by the users for viewing via the user interface, each session record corresponding to a respective browsing session of a user; generating, for each of a plurality of pairs of the items, a respective data value representing a degree of relationship between the two items of the pair, wherein generating the data value for a pair comprises using the user-specific session records to determine how frequently both items of the pair are selected for viewing within a common browsing session; generating, based on the data values, a mapping that maps items to related items; and during a browsing session of a first user: said process performed entirely by a computer system that comprises one or more physical servers.