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).
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Publication number: 20160189257Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Brownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Patent number: 9070156Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent Russell Smith, Nida K. Zada
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Publication number: 20140100986Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Amazon.com, Inc.Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent Russell Smith, Nida K. Zada
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Patent number: 8620767Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent Russell Smith, Nida K. Zada
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Patent number: 8433621Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada
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Patent number: 8407105Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada
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Patent number: 8370203Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 2, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Brownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Patent number: 8326690Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 5, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Brownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Publication number: 20120259729Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada
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Patent number: 8140391Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Publication number: 20110282758Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Publication number: 20110238525Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada
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Patent number: 8024222Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Patent number: 7970664Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2004Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada
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Patent number: 7945475Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Patent number: 7921042Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Patent number: 7908183Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Publication number: 20100191582Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Bownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Publication number: 20100191619Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Brownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden
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Patent number: 7720723Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 7, 2002Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Russell A. Dicker, Jeffrey T. Brownell, Jennifer A. Jacobi, Eric A. Benson, Gregory D. Linden