Accessory recommendation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020104898-A1
Application number	US-201816143723-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 27, 2018
Priority date	Sep 27, 2018
Publication date	Apr 2, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

This disclosure includes systems and methods for providing accessory product recommendations to a user that may include items related to an anchor product selected by the user. The determination of accessory product recommendations may be made based on compatibility between anchor and accessory products, based on manually entered anchor-accessory product relationships, using an algorithm trained to determine anchor-accessory product relationships, or using other methods. The accessory recommendations may be provided along with the anchor product on an electronic user interface, such as a website, in response to the user's selection of the product through the electronic user interface. In this way, the accessory and anchor products may be viewed and/or selected by the user with a minimal number of clicks or user interactions through the electronic user interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method of providing an accessory recommendation to a user, comprising:
receiving, from a user electronic device, a selection of an anchor product through an electronic user interface; determining an accessory product related to the anchor product; and sending, to the user electronic device, information about the accessory product and the anchor product to display together on the electronic user interface, wherein the accessory product is determined to be an accessory related to the anchor product at least in part by:
determining an anchor product category of the anchor product;
determining a plurality of other anchor products that are in the anchor product category;
determining, based on the plurality of other anchor products, a plurality of accessory products from a list of manually entered anchor-accessory product relationships that are recommended for the plurality of other anchor products; and
selecting the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product from the plurality of accessory products.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending, to the user electronic device for display on the electronic user interface, a graphical control element with which the user is able to purchase the anchor product and the accessory product.

3 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
receiving a selection of the graphical control element from the user electronic device; and adding the anchor product and the accessory product to the user's cart in response to the received selection.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the anchor product does not have an associated accessory product relationship in the list of manually entered anchor-accessory product relationships.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a utility of the anchor product is greater when used in combination with the accessory product.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product from the plurality of accessory products further comprises determining that one of the plurality of accessory products been recommended for at least:
a predetermined number of products in the anchor product category in the list of manually entered anchor-accessory product relationships or a predetermined percentage of products in the anchor product category in the list of manually entered anchor-accessory product relationships.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product from the plurality of accessory products further comprises:
determining a plurality of accessory product categories, wherein each of the plurality of accessory products is in at least one of the plurality of accessory product categories; and determining a number of instances, for each of the plurality of accessory product categories, in which any of the plurality of accessory products is recommended for the anchor product category in the list of manually entered anchor-accessory product relationships.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein selecting the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product further comprises selecting from one of the plurality of accessory products that is in one of the plurality of accessory product categories that has:
the number of instances above a predetermined number or the number of instances as a percentage of a total number of products in the anchor product category above a predetermined percentage.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product from the plurality of accessory products further comprises determining which of the plurality of accessory products has been co-purchased with the anchor product a highest number of times.

10 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising determining which of the plurality of accessory products has been co-purchased with the anchor product from co-purchase data comprising records of purchases through a website or mobile application and records of purchases in one or more brick-and-mortar stores.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product from the plurality of accessory products further comprises determining that the accessory product and the anchor product have at least one compatible attribute.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein determining that the accessory product and the anchor product have at least one compatible attribute comprises performing text mining on product names or descriptions of the accessory product and the anchor product to determine the at least one compatible attribute.

13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product from the plurality of accessory products further comprises determining that the accessory product and the anchor product have more compatible attributes than other accessory products of the plurality of accessory products.

14 . The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product from the plurality of accessory products further comprises:
determining a plurality of other anchor product categories in addition to the anchor product category; and determining a number of instances each of the plurality of accessory products are recommended for at least one item in each of the plurality of other anchor product categories.

15 . The method of claim 14 , further comprising selecting the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product from the plurality of accessory products comprises selecting the accessory product from one of the plurality of accessory products that has:
the number of instances above a predetermined number or the number of instances as a percentage of a total number of the plurality of other anchor product categories is above a predetermined percentage.

16 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
establishing an anchor-accessory relationship between the accessory product and the anchor product in response to the selecting of the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product; and storing the anchor-accessory relationship in a lookup table, wherein receiving the selection of the anchor product through the electronic user interface occurs after the anchor-accessory relationship is stored in the lookup table such that the determination of the accessory product is accomplished by locating the anchor-accessory relationship in the lookup table.

17 . A method of providing an accessory recommendation to a user, comprising:
receiving, from a user electronic device, a selection of an anchor product through an electronic user interface; determining an accessory product related to the anchor product; and sending, to the user electronic device, information about the accessory product and the anchor product to display together on the electronic user interface, wherein the accessory product is determined to be an accessory related to the anchor product at least in part by:
determining a plurality of potential accessory products;
comparing first text associated with the anchor product to respective second text associated with each of the plurality of potential accessory products;
selecting, based on the comparison of the first text to the second texts, the accessory product to recommend for the anchor product from the plurality of accessory products.

18 . The method of claim 17 , further comprising sending, to the user electronic device for display on the electronic user interface, a g

Assignees

• Home Depot Product Authority Llc

Inventors

• Cui Xiquan
• Qu Huiming
• Afshar Estelle
• Wu San-He

Classifications

• G06Q30/0643

  graphically representing goods, e.g. 3D product representation · CPC title

• G06Q30/0631 Primary

  Recommending goods or services · CPC title

• G06Q30/0633

  Managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists (shipping orders G06Q10/083; order filling G06Q10/087) · CPC title