Behavior based life support generating new behavior patterns from behavior indicators for a user

• US 20040116783A1
• Filed: 12/17/2002
• Published: 06/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Weaver, James Mark
• Application Number:
  US10/322,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20040116783A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Providing life support services to a user, including receiving a plurality of disparate behavior indicators, and filtering the behavior indicators for a user in dependence upon user filter attributes, thereby producing filtered behavior indicators. Embodiments include comparing the filtered behavior indicators with a plurality of past behavior records for a user, in which comparing the filtered behavior indicators with a plurality of past behavior records results in a determination that no set of past behavior records identifying a behavior pattern for a user matches the filtered behavior indicators, and creating a new behavior pattern for the user.

Claims

1. A method of providing life support services to a user, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of disparate behavior indicators;

filtering the behavior indicators for a user in dependence upon user filter attributes, thereby producing filtered behavior indicators;

comparing the filtered behavior indicators with a plurality of past behavior records for a user, wherein comparing the filtered behavior indicators with a plurality of past behavior records results in a determination that no set of past behavior records identifying a behavior pattern for a user matches the filtered behavior indicators; and

creating a new behavior pattern for the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein creating a new behavior pattern for the user comprises saving the filtered behavior indicators as past behavior records for the user.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising editing the past behavior records.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein editing the past behavior records comprises receiving editing instructions from the user.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising establishing an action associated with the new behavior pattern for the user.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein establishing an action associated with the new behavior pattern for the user comprises receiving the action from a user.

7. A system for providing life support services to a user, the system comprising:

means for receiving a plurality of disparate behavior indicators;

means for filtering the behavior indicators for a user in dependence upon user filter attributes, thereby producing filtered behavior indicators;

means for comparing the filtered behavior indicators with a plurality of past behavior records for a user, wherein means for comparing the filtered behavior indicators with a plurality of past behavior records results in a determination that no set of past behavior records identifying a behavior pattern for a user matches the filtered behavior indicators; and

means for creating a new behavior pattern for the user.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein means for creating a new behavior pattern for the user comprises means for saving the filtered behavior indicators as past behavior records for the user.

9. The system of claim 8, further means for comprising editing the past behavior records.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein means for editing the past behavior records comprises means for receiving editing instructions from the user.

11. The system of claim 7 further comprising means for establishing an action associated with the new behavior pattern for the user.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein means for establishing an action associated with the new behavior pattern for the user comprises means for receiving the action from a user.

14. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein means, recorded on the recording medium, for creating a new behavior pattern for the user comprises means, recorded on the recording medium, for saving the filtered behavior indicators as past behavior records for the user.

15. The computer program product of claim 8, further means, recorded on the recording medium, for comprising editing the past behavior records.

16. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein means, recorded on the recording medium, for editing the past behavior records comprises means, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving editing instructions from the user.

17. The computer program product of claim 7 further comprising means, recorded on the recording medium, for establishing an action associated with the new behavior pattern for the user.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein means, recorded on the recording medium, for establishing an action associated with the new behavior pattern for the user comprises means, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving the action from a user.

13. A computer program product for providing life support services to a user, the computer program product comprising:

a recording medium;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving a plurality of disparate behavior indicators;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for filtering the behavior indicators for a user in dependence upon user filter attributes, thereby producing filtered behavior indicators;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for comparing the filtered behavior indicators with a plurality of past behavior records for a user, wherein means, recorded on the recording medium, for comparing the filtered behavior indicators with a plurality of past behavior records results in a determination that no set of past behavior records identifying a behavior pattern for a user matches the filtered behavior indicators; and

means, recorded on the recording medium, for creating a new behavior pattern for the user.