20140156449 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ITEM RECOMMENDATION - The present invention provides a method and system for recommending one or more products and recommending one or more sales channel to a user. The method and apparatus disclosed provides a mechanism for generating a personalized and customized catalog of relevant products to be presented to the user along with a plurality of sales channels showing availability of the recommended products. Various embodiments of the present invention teaches a mechanism for generating the product recommendation based on at least the user shopping context information, user preference information, and the body profile information. The one or more products are correlated with the user information and the most relevant products are recommended to the user. The invention also teaches a method for virtually trying a product recommended by the recommendation engine of the present invention before purchasing through the one or more recommended sales channels. | 06-05-2014 |