Appeal No. 2001-2051
Application 08/923,293
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to a system, method, and computer
program product for providing recommendations of goods and/or
services of potential interest to customers based upon the
customer's selection of other goods and/or services, in
conjunction with a database of the purchasing history of other
customers of the merchant. For example, if a user selects a
specific book that he or she is interested in purchasing, the
system searches the database to determine all previous customers
who have purchased that book and, if those previous customers
have also purchased other books in common, the books will be
displayed. A common example today, although not known to this
panel to be prior art to the present application, is found on
websites such as "www.barnesandnoble.com" where selection of a
book results in information on the book and a list of books under
the heading of "People who bought this book also bought:."
Claim 16 is reproduced below.
16. A computer program product having a computer readable
medium having computer readable code recorded thereon for
the recommendation of goods or services in response to user
input, comprising:
input means for receiving user commands representing
any of a plurality of goods or services to be used as filter
data;
database storage means for the retention of data
concerning goods or services purchase decisions of prior
users; and
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