Patent ID: 8725592

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for recommending one or more gifts for a selected individual, the method comprising: receiving, by an interest determination module, textual content authored and published by the selected individual; forwarding the textual content to a semantic analysis engine; performing, by the semantic analysis engine, semantic analysis on the textual content to extract one or more topic categories of interest to the selected individual from within the textual content; receiving the one or more topic categories of interest from the semantic analysis engine; determining, by a computing device executing computer-executable code associated with a product lookup module, one or more products corresponding to the one or more topic categories of interest that are giftable; and recommending the one or more giftable products as gifts for the selected individual; wherein the semantic analysis of the textual content performed by the semantic analysis engine comprises: determining that the selected individual has a negative sentiment of a first topic category among the one or more topic categories based on the textual content authored and published by the selected individual and received by the determination module; and, excluding the first topic category from the one or more topic categories of interest, the first topic category not utilized in the determining of the one or more products corresponding to the one or more topic categories of interest.