US Patent 9076172 Generating item suggestions from a profile-based group

Disclosed are various embodiments relating to generating profile-based groups to obtain item suggestions. A network page is rendered in a client computing device comprising a topic field to input a topic and a third party criteria selection mechanism to select at least one third party user. The user inputs the topic and the third party criteria. A request for suggestions relating to the topic is then sent from the client computing device to a server computing device.