Patent Document ID: 20060041548
Application ID: 11186951
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A recommendation system for providing a recommendation set of recommended items from an item data store to a user who uses an interface to browse an item set made from items in the item data store, the recommendation system comprising: a) a ratings estimation module that receives item property data including item attribute data for items in the item set, the ratings estimation module being connected to the interface for receiving training set data including user-specific information and being adapted to generate a training set based on at least one item browsed by the user and, based on at least one user-specific property and one or more item attributes, the ratings estimation module generates an item rating matrix by estimating user ratings for the items in the training set; and, b) a recommendation module connected to the ratings estimation module for receiving the item rating matrix and the item set, wherein the recommendation module estimates user ratings for unseen items in the item set and generates the recommendation set based on the estimated ratings.