Social Profile Assessment

• US 20100004940A1
• Filed: 07/02/2008
• Published: 01/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wrp IP Management, LLC
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Readshaw, Neil Ian, Choi, Christopher, Hockings, Christopher John
• Granted Patent: US 7,930,255 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

An embodiment provides a computer implemented method for social profile assessment. The computer implemented method receives a request from a first user for an assessment, and sends questionnaires to a set of assessors for the first user. Upon receiving questionnaires from the set of assessors to form completed questionnaires, the computer implemented method generates an unadjusted social style assessment for the first user. Upon receiving a request from a second user for the social style assessment of the first user, the computer implemented method determines whether there are common assessors between the first user and the second user, and responsive to a determination that there are common assessors between the first user and the second user, generates an adjusted social style assessment for the first user, and returns the adjusted social style assessment for the first user to the second user.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for social style assessment, the computer implemented method comprising:

receiving a request from a first user for a social style assessment;

sending questionnaires to a set of assessors for the first user;

receiving questionnaires from the set of assessors to form completed questionnaires;

generating an unadjusted social style assessment for the first user from the completed questionnaires;

receiving a request from a second user for the social style assessment of the first user;

determining whether there are common assessors between the first user and the second user;

responsive to a determination that common assessors are present between the first user and the second user, generating an adjusted social style assessment for the first user; and

returning the adjusted social style assessment for the first user to the second user.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein generating an unadjusted social style assessment for the first user further comprises:

aggregating data within the completed questionnaires to form aggregate data; and

analyzing the aggregate data from the set of assessors to form an average of the aggregate data.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 2, wherein generating an adjusted social style assessment for the first user further comprises:

identifying a set of assessors common between the first user and the second user to form a common set of assessors;

subsetting the aggregate data, to the common set of assessors, to form common data;

analyzing the common data to form averaged data; and

applying a weight to the averaged data.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprises:

returning one or more of the unadjusted social style assessment for the first user, a number of users in the set of assessors and the number of users in the common set of assessors to the second user.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein generating an adjusted social style assessment for the first user further comprises:

calculating a proportion of the common set of assessors to the set of assessors to form a percentage value; and

setting the percentage value as the weight.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 3, wherein the weight is selected by one of the first user and the second user.

7. A data processing system for social style assessment, the data processing system comprising:

a bus;

a memory connected to the bus, wherein the memory including computer executable instructions;

a communication unit connected to the bus;

a processor unit connected to the bus, wherein the processor unit executes the computer executable instructions to direct the data processing system to;

receive a request from a first user for a social style assessment;

send questionnaires to a set of assessors for the first user;

receive questionnaires from the set of assessors to form completed questionnaires;

generate an unadjusted social style assessment for the first user from the completed questionnaires;

receive a request from a second user for the social style assessment of the first user;

determine whether there are common assessors between the first user and the second user;

respond to a determination that common assessors are present between the first user and the second user, to generate an adjusted social style assessment for the first user; and

return the adjusted social style assessment for the first user to the second user.

8. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the processor unit executes the computer executable instructions to direct the data processing system to generate an unadjusted social style assessment for the first user further comprises:

aggregate data within the completed questionnaires to form aggregate data; and

analyze the aggregate data from the set of assessors to form an average of the aggregate data.

9. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the processor unit executes the computer executable instructions to direct the data processing system to generate an adjusted social style assessment for the first user further comprises:

identify a set of assessors common between the first user and the second user to form a common set of assessors;

subset the aggregate data, to the common set of assessors, to form common data;

analyze the common data to form averaged data; and

apply a weight to the averaged data.

10. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the processor unit executes the computer executable instructions to further direct the data processing system to:

return one or more of the unadjusted social style assessment for the first user, a number of users in the set of assessors and the number of users in the common set of assessors to the second user.

11. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the processor unit executes the computer executable instructions to direct the data processing system to generate an adjusted social style assessment for the first user further comprises:

calculate a proportion of the common set of assessors to the set of assessors to form a percentage value; and

set the percentage value as the weight.

12. The data processing system of claim 9, wherein the weight is selected by one of the first user and the second user.

13. A computer program product for social style assessment, the computer implemented method comprising a computer readable recordable type medium having computer executable instructions tangibly embodied thereon, the computer executable instructions comprising:

computer executable instructions for receiving a request from a first user for a social style assessment;

computer executable instructions for sending questionnaires to a set of assessors for the first user;

computer executable instructions for receiving questionnaires from the set of assessors to form completed questionnaires;

computer executable instructions for generating an unadjusted social style assessment for the first user from the completed questionnaires;

computer executable instructions for receiving a request from a second user for the social style assessment of the first user;

computer executable instructions for determining whether there are common assessors between the first user and the second user;

computer executable instructions responsive to a determination that common assessors are present between the first user and the second user, for generating an adjusted social style assessment for the first user; and

computer executable instructions for returning the adjusted social style assessment for the first user to the second user.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein computer executable instructions for generating an unadjusted social style assessment for the first user further comprise:

computer executable instructions for aggregating data within the completed questionnaires to form aggregate data; and

computer executable instructions for analyzing the aggregate data from the set of assessors to form an average of the aggregate data.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein computer executable instructions for generating an adjusted social style assessment for the first user further comprise:

computer executable instructions for identifying a set of assessors common between the first user and the second user to form a common set of assessors;

computer executable instructions for subsetting the aggregate data, to the common set of assessors, to form common data;

computer executable instructions for analyzing the common data to form averaged data; and

computer executable instructions for applying a weight to the averaged data.

16. The computer program product of claim 13 further comprises:

computer executable instructions for returning one or more of the unadjusted social style assessment for the first user, a number of users in the set of assessors and the number of users in the common set of assessors to the second user.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein computer executable instructions for generating an adjusted social style assessment for the first user further comprise:

computer executable instructions for calculating a proportion of the common set of assessors to the set of assessors to form a percentage value; and

computer executable instructions for setting the percentage value as the weight.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the weight is selected by one of the first user and the second user.

19. An apparatus for a social style assessment, the apparatus comprising:

an assessment manager, wherein the assessment manager further comprises;

a survey tool for collecting a set of social style assessment data;

analytics for analyzing the set of social style assessment data to form a social style assessment;

a social data structure for storing the social style assessment; and

a classifier for classifying the social style assessment in accordance with attributes of the social style assessment.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the analytics further comprise a weight assignment capable of performing weighted average computations.