Personal concierge plan and itinerary generator
View Patent ↗The technology disclosed relates to identification of future activity options. In particular, it relates to identifying future activity options that are similar to a selected future activity, similar to past activities, that meet descriptive language criteria, that form compatible sequences of activities, or that form compatible multi-day sequences of activities. The technology disclosed also relates to rapid and convenient sorting through activity options.
1. A method of recommending a sequence of three or more future activities, including:
receiving at least mood and occasion indicators and a geographic location for a future activity;
selecting a plurality of anchor activities near the geographic location that are consistent with the mood and not inconsistent with the occasion;
for each anchor activity,
applying compatibility rules to identify two or more compatible activities that take place before or after the anchor activity and during a time period that includes the anchor activity; and
forming at least one activity set that includes the anchor activity and two or more of the compatible activities;
scoring the activity sets;
reporting at least some of the scored activity sets;
receiving data representing user choices that reject or accept the reported activity sets;
evaluating the user choices against a multi-dimensional qualitative taxonomy and identifying dimensions that distinguish between the rejected activity sets and the accepted activity sets; and
reporting additional activity sets representing additional user options based at least in part on the identified dimensions.
2. The method of claim 1 , further including:
receiving data representing user choices that reject or accept the anchor activities;
evaluating the user choices against a multi-dimensional qualitative taxonomy and identifying dimensions that distinguish between the rejected anchor activities and the accepted anchor activities; and
presenting additional activity sets responsive to the identified dimensions as data representing additional user choices is received.
3. A computer system for recommending a sequence of three or more future activities, including:
a processor and a computer readable storage medium storing computer instructions that cause the processor to implement a method comprising:
receiving at least mood and occasion indicators and a geographic location for a future activity;
selecting a plurality of anchor activities near the geographic location that are consistent with the mood and not inconsistent with the occasion;
for each anchor activity,
applying compatibility rules to identify two or more compatible activities that take place before or after the anchor activity and during a time period that includes the anchor activity; and
forming at least one activity set that includes the anchor activity and two or more of the compatible activities;
scoring the activity sets;
reporting at least some of the scored activity sets;
receiving data representing user choices that reject or accept the reported activity sets;
evaluating the user choices against a multi-dimensional qualitative taxonomy and identifying dimensions that distinguish between the rejected activity sets and the accepted activity sets; and
reporting additional activity sets representing additional user options based at least in part on the identified dimensions.
4. The system of claim 3 , further including computer instructions implementing:
receiving data representing user choices that reject or accept the anchor activities;
evaluating the user choices against a multi-dimensional qualitative taxonomy and identifying dimensions that distinguish between the rejected anchor activities and the accepted anchor activities; and
presenting additional activity sets responsive to the identified dimensions as data representing additional user choices is received.
5. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to implement a method comprising:
receiving at least mood and occasion indicators and a geographic location for a future activity;
selecting a plurality of anchor activities near the geographic location that are consistent with the mood and not inconsistent with the occasion;
for each anchor activity,
applying compatibility rules to identify two or more compatible activities that take place before or after the anchor activity and during a time period that includes the anchor activity; and
forming at least one activity set that includes the anchor activity and two or more of the compatible activities;
scoring the activity sets;
reporting at least some of the scored activity sets;
receiving data representing user choices that reject or accept the reported activity sets;
evaluating the user choices against a multi-dimensional qualitative taxonomy and identifying dimensions that distinguish between the rejected activity sets and the accepted activity sets; and
reporting additional activity sets representing additional user options based at least in part on the identified dimensions.
6. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 5 , further including computer instructions implementing:
receiving data representing user choices that reject or accept the anchor activities;
evaluating the user choices against a multi-dimensional qualitative taxonomy and identifying dimensions that distinguish between the rejected anchor activities and the accepted anchor activities; and
presenting additional activity sets responsive to the identified dimensions as data representing additional user choices is received.