Patents by Inventor Markus Schaal

Markus Schaal 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).

  • METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING A COMMODITY
    Publication number: 20140351079
    Abstract: A user inputs a request (1) for a commodity recommendation. A computer system accesses (2) a plurality of commodity reviews. The computer system extracts feature indicators (3) and sentiment indicators (4) from each commodity review. The computer system determines (5) the popularity of each feature indicator and the similarity between a first commodity (Q) and a second commodity (C). The computer system evaluates the sentiment indicators and evaluates the similarity indicator to form (7) the commodity recommendation. After the commodity recommendation has been formed in step (7), the computer system delivers (8) the commodity recommendation for the second commodity (C) to the user using a website interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: University College Dublin
    Inventors: Ruihai DONG, Michael P. O'Mahony, Barry Smyth, Markus Schaal