Patents by Inventor Gregory D. Linden

Gregory D. Linden has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20160189257
    Abstract: Improved user interfaces and methods are provided for presenting item recommendations to a user when the user selects an item to add to an electronic shopping cart. In response to the user's selection, a page generation process generates and returns a page that includes a condensed shopping cart portion and a recommendations portion. The condensed shopping cart portion may include a link to an additional page that includes controls for editing the shopping cart and/or includes additional information regarding contents of the shopping cart. The recommendations portion may include multiple recommendations sections that are populated using different respective item selection methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Brownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Patent number: 9070156
    Abstract: Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent Russell Smith, Nida K. Zada
  • Publication number: 20140100986
    Abstract: Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent Russell Smith, Nida K. Zada
  • Patent number: 8620767
    Abstract: Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent Russell Smith, Nida K. Zada
  • Patent number: 8433621
    Abstract: Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada
  • Patent number: 8407105
    Abstract: Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada
  • Patent number: 8370203
    Abstract: Improved user interfaces and methods are provided for presenting item recommendations to a user when the user selects an item to add to a shopping cart. In response to the user's selection, a page generation process generates and returns a page that includes a plurality of recommendations sections, each of which displays item recommendations generated using a different respective recommendation or selection algorithm (e.g., recommendations based on shopping cart contents, recommendations based on purchase history, etc.). These recommendation algorithms may be selected based on collected information regarding the user. The page may also include a shopping cart section which displays contents of the shopping cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Brownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Patent number: 8326690
    Abstract: Improved user interfaces and methods are provided for presenting item recommendations to a user when the user selects an item to add to an electronic shopping cart. In response to the user's selection, a page generation process generates and returns a page that includes a condensed shopping cart portion and a recommendations portion. The condensed shopping cart portion displays the contents of the shopping cart, but omits some of the item information and/or controls provided on a shopping cart page, thereby preserving more screen real estate for the display of item recommendations. The condensed shopping cart portion also includes a link to the shopping cart page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Brownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Publication number: 20120259729
    Abstract: Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada
  • Patent number: 8140391
    Abstract: A computer-implemented recommendation service uses item-to-item relationship mappings to select items to recommend to the user. The item-to-item relationship mappings may reflect user-behavior-based (e.g., purchase-based) item relationships, content-based item relationships, or a combination thereof. In one embodiment, personalized recommendations are generated for a user by a process that comprises retrieving from the mapping, for each of a plurality of items of interest to the user, a respective related items list; weighting the related items lists based on information regarding the user's affinity for the corresponding items of interest; combining the weighted related items lists to form a pool of scored items, and selecting items from the pool to recommend to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Publication number: 20110282758
    Abstract: A computer-implemented recommendation service uses item-to-item relationship mappings to select items to recommend to the user. The item-to-item relationship mappings may reflect user-behavior-based (e.g., purchase-based) item relationships, content-based item relationships, or a combination thereof. In one embodiment, personalized recommendations are generated for a user by a process that comprises retrieving from the mapping, for each of a plurality of items of interest to the user, a respective related items list; weighting the related items lists based on information regarding the user's affinity for the corresponding items of interest; combining the weighted related items lists to form a pool of scored items, and selecting items from the pool to recommend to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Publication number: 20110238525
    Abstract: Various processes are disclosed for discovering item relationships between particular items, such as products represented in an electronic catalog, based on monitored user behaviors (e.g., item viewing activities, item purchases, shopping cart activities, etc.). The discovered item relationships may, for example, be used to generate personalized item recommendations for users, and/or to supplement item detail pages of an electronic catalog with lists of related items. Also disclosed are processes for generating personalized item recommendations based on users' search activities and browse node visits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada
  • Patent number: 8024222
    Abstract: A computer-implemented service analyzes purchase histories and/or other types of behavioral data of users on an aggregated basis to detect and quantify associations between particular items represented in an electronic catalog. The detected associations are stored in a mapping structure that maps items to related items, and is used to recommend items to users of the electronic catalog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Patent number: 7970664
    Abstract: Various methods are disclosed for monitoring user browsing activities, and for using such information to provide item recommendations to users. In one embodiment, a monitoring component of a merchant's Web site maintains a record of products viewed by each user during a current browsing session—preferably based on visits to product detail pages. A recommendations component uses the resulting history of viewed products to identify additional products to recommend, preferably using a pre-existing table that maps products to related products. In one embodiment, this table is generated by periodically analyzing user browsing histories to identify correlations between purchases, viewing events, and/or other actions performed with respect to particular products. The recommended items may be displayed together with an option to individually deselect the recently viewed items on which the recommendations are based.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada
  • Patent number: 7945475
    Abstract: A computer-implemented service analyzes purchase histories and/or other types of behavioral data of users on an aggregated basis to detect and quantify associations between particular items represented in an electronic catalog. The detected associations are stored in a mapping structure that maps items to related items, and is used to recommend items to users of the electronic catalog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Patent number: 7921042
    Abstract: A computer-implemented service analyzes purchase histories and/or other types of behavioral data of users on an aggregated basis to detect and quantify associations between particular items represented in an electronic catalog. The detected associations are stored in a mapping structure that maps items to related items, and is used to recommend items to users of the electronic catalog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Patent number: 7908183
    Abstract: A computer-implemented service analyzes purchase histories and/or other types of behavioral data of users on an aggregated basis to detect and quantify associations between particular items represented in an electronic catalog. The detected associations are stored in a mapping structure that maps items to related items, and is used to recommend items to users of the electronic catalog. The items may include products and/or categories of products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Publication number: 20100191582
    Abstract: An improved user interfaces and methods are provided for presenting item recommendations to a user when the user selects an item to add to a shopping cart. In response to the user's selection, a page generation process generates and returns a page that includes a plurality of recommendations sections, each of which displays item recommendations generated using a different respective recommendation or selection algorithm (e.g., recommendations based on shopping cart contents, recommendations based on purchase history, etc.). These recommendation algorithms may be selected based on collected information regarding the user. The page may also include a shopping cart section which displays contents of the shopping cart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Bownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Publication number: 20100191619
    Abstract: Improved user interfaces and methods are provided for presenting item recommendations to a user when the user selects an item to add to an electronic shopping cart. In response to the user's selection, a page generation process generates and returns a page that includes a condensed shopping cart portion and a recommendations portion. The condensed shopping cart portion displays the contents of the shopping cart, but omits some of the item information and/or controls provided on a shopping cart page, thereby preserving more screen real estate for the display of item recommendations. The condensed shopping cart portion also includes a link to the shopping cart page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Brownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
  • Patent number: 7720723
    Abstract: An improved user interface and method are provided for presenting recommendations to a user when the user adds an item to a shopping cart. In response to the shopping cart add event, a page generation process generates and returns a page that includes a recommendations portion and a condensed view of the shopping cart. The recommendations portion preferably includes multiple recommendation sections, each of which displays a different respective set of recommended items selected according to a different respective recommendation or selection algorithm (e.g., recommendations based on shopping cart contents, recommendations based on purchase history, etc.). The condensed shopping cart view preferably lacks controls for editing the shopping cart, and lacks certain types of product information, making more screen real estate available for the display of the recommendations content. A link to a full shopping cart page allows the user to edit the shopping cart and view expanded product descriptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Brownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden