Product Recommendations Filtering by Delivery Channel Availability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing product recommendation systems often provide redundant or non-functional suggestions that do not adequately account for past purchases, sales channels, or multi-wise combinations of frequently bought products, leading to inefficient user interaction and increased navigation for customers.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that receive a user's product selection, determine the delivery channel, and present frequently bought together items available in that channel, using filtering criteria to select and display only relevant items, allowing for streamlined purchasing through graphical control elements on an electronic interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If product recommendations are provided without filtering by delivery channel and availability, then the quantity of recommended items increases, but the relevance and functionality of recommendations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by filtering recommended items based on their specific availability in different delivery channels (in-store vs. online). Each recommended item is evaluated for its local availability characteristics, and only items that are actually available in the selected delivery channel are presented to the customer. This ensures that recommendations are locally relevant and functional for the specific purchasing context.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-determining which items are available in each delivery channel before generating recommendations. The availability information is prepared in advance and used to filter the recommendation list, ensuring that only applicable items are presented to the customer without requiring real-time checking during the recommendation generation process.
2Ease of operation
If all frequently bought together items are presented without filtering, then the ease of operation improves, but the user time and effort increases due to redundant navigation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes irrelevant recommended items from the presentation by filtering out items that are not available in the selected delivery channel. This extraction process eliminates unnecessary navigation and interaction with unavailable items, allowing customers to focus only on items that can actually be purchased through the selected delivery method, thereby reducing time loss while maintaining ease of operation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple interchangeable items are presented, then the quantity of choices increases, but the device complexity and user confusion increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and presents only one representative item from each set of interchangeable items, eliminating redundant choices. By selecting a single representative from equivalent items, the interface complexity is reduced while still providing sufficient adaptability for the customer's needs, avoiding confusion among multiple interchangeable options.
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AI summary
This disclosure includes systems and methods for providing purchase recommendations to a user that may include items frequently purchased with a product selected by the user. The determination of which items are frequently purchased with which other items may account for both online and in-store transactions and may further account for both pairwise and multi-wise relationships. The recommendations may be provided on an electronic user interface, such as a website, in response to the user's selection of the product through the electronic user interface. The recommendations may be tailored to the user's selected product so that the recommended items are available in the same delivery channel as the user-selected product.