Abstract:
Systems and methods for making recommendations to a consumer, including, accessing a first and a second consumer profile database; allowing a consumer to request information regarding a product from a product database; selecting all products in the product database; removing all of the products that are not included in a similar product area with the requested product; establishing an initial product recommendation value for each remaining selected products; transforming the initial product recommendation value for each of the remaining selected products based on a comparison of the subjective product evaluation information and at least some consumer profile information and/or supplemental consumer profile information to produce a final recommendation value for each of the remaining selected products; creating a ranked list of the remaining selected products by each remaining selected product's final recommendation value; and displaying data regarding the ranked list of the remaining selected products to the consumer.
Abstract:
Education management systems and methods that include a server, at least one student computer that is linked, via a distributed network, to the server; and at least one management computer that is linked, via the distributed network, to the server. The server includes at least some of a products database for storing and/or updating a plurality of product profile records, a criteria database for storing and/or updating evaluation criteria by which a product is evaluated, a students database for storing and/or updating a plurality of student profile records or student profile information, a testing database for storing and/or generating testing documents and data, a curriculum database for assessing a student's personal and/or performance information and developing and/or updating an individual student curriculum based on the student's personal and/or performance information, and a reports database for receiving a student's personal and/or performance information and producing report documents and data.
Abstract:
A product recommendation expert system including a server; at least one consumer computer that is linked, via a distributed network, to the server; and at least one management computer that is linked, via a distributed network, to the server; wherein the server includes at least some of a product profile database for storing and/or updating product information for a plurality of products, a criteria database for storing and/or updating evaluation criteria by which a product is evaluated, and at least one first consumer profile database for storing and/or updating consumer profile information for a plurality of consumers; and at least one second consumer profile database, wherein the second consumer profile database contains at least some previously stored, supplemental consumer profile information, wherein the supplemental consumer profile information includes at least some consumer profile information that is different from the consumer profile information in the first consumer profile database.