Patent Document ID: 8155577
Application ID: 10459956
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for recommending one or more products, selected from a group of offered products, based on a specific consumer profile for a specific consumer, comprising: establishing a products database in a computer accessible medium, wherein the products database contains at least some stored product information for each offered product, and wherein the stored product information includes subjective product evaluation information including information gained from a subjective evaluation of each product's suitability for specific consumers, wherein the subjective product evaluation information comprises answers to specific product evaluation questions with respect to consumer personal information; accessing at least one first database in a computer accessible medium, wherein the first database contains at least some previously stored consumer profile information for the specific consumer; establishing a second database in a computer accessible medium, wherein the second database contains at least some stored supplemental consumer profile information for the specific consumer, wherein the supplemental consumer profile information is information different from the consumer profile information in the first database; allowing a consumer to select, via a computer, a specific product area from the products database; accessing, based on the consumer's selection of a product area, the products database; accessing the first database and the second database; selecting, via a computer processor, all offered products in the products database, regardless of the product area selected by the consumer; removing from the selected offered products, via the computer processor, all of the offered products that are not included in the selected product area selected by the consumer; removing, after the offered products that are not included in the subject area selected by the consumer have been removed, all of the offered products that are designated to be a predetermined number of skill levels above the specific consumer's skill level, wherein information regarding the specific consumer's skill level is stored as consumer profile information for the specific consumer in the first database or the second database, and wherein information regarding the designated skill level of each offered product is stored as product information in the products database; removing, after the offered products that are designated to be a predetermined number of skill levels above the specific consumer's skill level have been removed, via the computer processor, all of the offered products that are designated to be a predetermined number of skill levels below the specific consumer's skill level, wherein information regarding the specific consumer's skill level is stored as consumer profile information for the specific consumer in the first database or the second database, and wherein information regarding the designated skill level of each offered product is stored as product information in the products database; establishing an initial product recommendation value for each of the remaining selected offered products; transforming the product recommendation value for each of the remaining selected offered products based on a comparison of the subjective product evaluation information and at least some consumer profile information including at least some consumer personal information from the first or second database for the specific consumer to produce a final product recommendation value for each of the remaining selected offered products creating a ranked list of the remaining selected offered products by ranking the remaining selected offered products by each remaining selected offered product's final product recommendation value; transforming data regarding the ranked list of the remaining selected offered products to a displayable representation of the data regarding the ranked list of the remaining selected offered products; and displaying the displayable representation of the data regarding the ranked list of the remaining selected offered products to the consumer.