This document summarizes research on techniques for mining high utility itemsets from transactional databases. It discusses how traditional frequent itemset mining focuses only on item frequency and not utility. High utility itemset mining considers both frequency and the utility (e.g. profit, quantity) of itemsets to find those with high total utility. The document reviews related work on frequent itemset mining and introduces high utility itemset mining. It defines key concepts like internal utility, external utility and discusses properties like the utility bound property. Finally, it surveys several algorithms for high utility itemset mining including Two-Phase, CTU-Mine, CTU-PRO and CTU-PROL.