US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on April 29 for "System, method, and computer program for providing similar product recommendations for non-merchant publishers based on publisher preferences" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,239, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"System, method, and computer program for providing similar product recommendations for non-merchant publishers based on publisher preferences" was invented by Brent Dore Locks (San Mateo, Calif.) and David Andrew Peck (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and computer program for automatically providing similar product recommendations for sold-out products promoted on non-merchant publisher sites, wherein the similar product recommendations are filtered for publisher preferences. A computer system with a pr...