1. Technical Field
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device and method for generating recommendation content.
2. Description of Related Art
Products, services, subscriptions, and other offerings are available via online sites. Online sites can provide recommendations of similar or related products based on what other customers have purchased or viewed. Nonetheless, these generic recommendations may not be effective to persuade a visitor to the online site to make a purchase. For example, the use of generic recommendations can often produce lists of recommendations that are too long to be useful to the visitor. Hence, there is a need for an improved system and method of providing recommendations.
Many aspects of the embodiments can be better understood with reference to the following drawings. The components in the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale, the emphasis instead being placed upon clearly illustrating the principles of the present disclosure. Moreover, in the drawings, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.
Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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The query receiving module 31 receives a search query from a user. The query analyzing module 32 analyzes the received search query and determines content of interest associated with the search query and associated content associated with the content of interest. In one embodiment, the electronic device 100 is used as a server for an online store, and the query analyzing module 32 determines the content of interest based on the transaction record of the user. For example, if the transaction record of a user includes a tablet computer and a search query is “screen protector,” the query analyzing module 32 determines the content of interest is a screen protector for the tablet computer. The query analyzing module 32 also determines that the associated content related to the tablet computer includes a protective case for the tablet computer.
The search module 33 searches for the content of interest and associated content associated with the content of interest in the database 10. The sorting module 34 sorts the search results retrieved by the search module 33 according to the number of times that the search has been conducted before. Alternatively or optionally, the sorting module 34 may refine the sorted search results according to the times that particular results of the search results have been clicked/selected before. The result presenting module 35 presents the sorted search results according to the screen size of the display 20.
Alternatively or optionally, the search module 33 may search for the content of interest and associated content associated with the content of interest on the Internet and/or a local area network (if available). In this instance, the processor 30 may further include a data updating module 36 for adding the search results from the Internet and/or a local area network to the database 10.
The method may further include the following step: the search module 33 searches for the content of interest and associated content associated with the content of interest on the Internet and/or a local area network (if available), and the data updating module 36 adds the search results from the Internet and/or a local area network to the database 10.
While various embodiments have been described and illustrated, the disclosure is not to be construed as being limited thereto. Various modifications can be made to the embodiments by those skilled in the art without departing from the true spirit and scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims.
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201210052834.8 | Mar 2012 | CN | national |