Systems and methods for analyzing policymaker alignment with organizational posture

• US 10,593,002 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2017
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FiscalNote, Inc. (Fiscalnote Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: FiscalNote, Inc. (Fiscalnote Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Palombi, Bill, Argyle, Daniel, Eidelman, Vladimir, Pinto, Jervis, Grom, Brian
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Lut
• Application Number:
  US15/494,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20170308797A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,061 Days
• Field of Search: 706 45
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/288 Entity relationship models
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3331 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/022 Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2230/00 Voting or election arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/26 Government or public services business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]

Abstract

An Internet-based agenda data analysis system may include at least one processor configured to maintain a list of user-selectable agenda issues, present to a user via a user interface, the list of user-selectable agenda issues, and receive via the user interface, based on a selection from the list, agenda issues of interest to an organization. The processor may be configured to access information scraped from the Internet to determine, for a plurality of policymakers, individual policymaker data from which an alignment position of each policymaker on each of the agenda issues is determinable, calculate alignment position data from the individual policymaker data, the alignment position data corresponding to relative positions of each of the plurality of policymakers on each of the plurality of selected issues, and transform the alignment position data into a graphical display that presents the alignment positions of multiple policymakers.

Claims

1. An Internet-based agenda data analysis system, the system comprising:

at least one processor configured to;

maintain a list of user-selectable agenda issues;

present to a user via a user interface, the list of user-selectable agenda issues, wherein each of the listed user-selectable agenda issues is configured to be selected by the user via input received from the user;

receive via the user interface, based on the input received from the user, agenda issues of interest to an organization, the agenda issues having been selected from the list of user-selectable agenda issues;

access information scraped from the Internet to determine, for a plurality of policymakers, individual policymaker data from which an alignment position of each policymaker on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization is determinable;

calculate alignment position data from the individual policymaker data, the alignment position data corresponding to relative positions of each of the plurality of policymakers on each of the plurality of selected agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization, the alignment position data comprising a measure of how each of the plurality of policymakers is oriented relative to an organizational posture of the organization, the organizational posture comprising a stance or political position of an organization on the selected agenda issues, and not an indicator of whether a particular legislative bill will pass; and

transform the alignment position data into a graphical display that presents the alignment positions of multiple policymakers on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to receive via the user interface, an indication of the organization'"'"'s position on each selected issue.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to predict an indication of the organization'"'"'s position on each selected issue.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to present to the user at least one control to adjust weighting of each user-selected agenda issue, wherein the weighting is based on an overall stance of the organization related to the agenda issue.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical display includes alignment position coordinates displayed in graphical form, and each displayed coordinate represents a single policymaker'"'"'s position on a single issue.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the at least one processor is further configured, after the alignment coordinates are displayed in graphical form, to adjust relative positions of the coordinates based on subsequent user manipulation of the at least one weighting control.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the at least one processor is further configured, after the alignment coordinates are displayed in graphical form, to subsequently access updated individual policymaker data, and to adjust relative positions of the coordinates based on updated individual policymaker data.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein each displayed coordinate is interactive, enabling a user who engages with the coordinate to view policymaker information.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the policymaker information includes an identity of each policymaker.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the policymaker information includes at least one of voting history information of each of the legislators and party affiliation of each of the legislators.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the policymaker information includes at least one of regulation information of each of the regulators or government officials and party affiliation of each of the regulators or government officials.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the agenda issues include legislative agenda issues, and the plurality of policymakers include legislators.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the agenda issues include regulatory agenda issues, and the plurality of policymakers include regulators or government officials.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the agenda issues related to one or more government bodies.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the alignment position of each policymaker is based on one more positions of at least two organizations.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the alignment position data is unrelated to predicted outcomes of the plurality of selected agenda issues.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical display that presents the alignment positions of multiple policymakers on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization further comprises:

alignment coordinates displayed in graphical form indicating whether each of the plurality of policymakers tends to support or oppose the organizational posture of the organization.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

apply a different weight to each of the relative positions.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

adjusting the alignment coordinates based on subsequent user manipulation of at least one of the weights applied to one of the relative positions.

20. An Internet-based agenda data analysis method, the method comprising:

maintaining a list of user-selectable agenda issues;

presenting to a user via a user interface, the list of user-selectable agenda issues, wherein each of the listed user-selectable agenda issues is configured to be selected by the user via input received from the user;

receiving via the user interface, based on the input received from the user, agenda issues of interest to an organization, the agenda issues having been selected from the list of user-selectable agenda issues;

accessing information scraped from the Internet to determine, for a plurality of policymakers, individual policymaker data from which an alignment position of each policymaker on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization is determinable;

calculating alignment position data from the individual policymaker data, the alignment position data corresponding to relative positions of each of the plurality of policymakers on each of the plurality of selected agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization, the alignment position data comprising a measure of how each of the plurality of policymakers is oriented relative to an organizational posture of the organization, the organizational posture comprising a stance or political position of an organization on the selected agenda issues, and not an indicator of whether a particular legislative bill will pass; and

transforming the alignment position data into a graphical display that presents the alignment positions of multiple policymakers on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising receiving via the user interface, an indication of the organization'"'"'s position on each selected issue.

22. The method of claim 20, further comprising predicting an indication of the organization'"'"'s position on each selected issue.

23. The method of claim 20, further comprising presenting to the user at least one control to adjust weighting of each user-selected agenda issue, wherein the weighting is based on an overall stance of the organization related to the agenda issue.

24. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including:

maintaining a list of user-selectable agenda issues;

presenting to a user via a user interface, the list of user-selectable agenda issues, wherein each of the listed user-selectable agenda issues is configured to be selected by the user via input received from the user;

receiving via the user interface, based on the input received from the user, agenda issues of interest to an organization, the agenda issues having been selected from the list of user-selectable agenda issues;

accessing information scraped from the Internet to determine, for a plurality of policymakers, individual policymaker data from which an alignment position of each policymaker on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization is determinable;

calculating alignment position data from the individual policymaker data, the alignment position data corresponding to relative positions of each of the plurality of policymakers on each of the plurality of selected agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization, the alignment position data comprising a measure of how each of the plurality of policymakers is oriented relative to an organizational posture of the organization, the organizational posture comprising a stance or political position of an organization on the selected agenda issues, and not an indicator of whether a particular legislative bill will pass; and

transforming the alignment position data into a graphical display that presents the alignment positions of multiple policymakers on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization.