METHOD TO KNOW THE REACTION OF A GROUP RESPECT TO A SET OF ELEMENTS AND VARIOUS APPLICATIONS OF THIS MODEL
First Claim
1. A computer aided method for estimating the reaction of an agent set comprising a plurality of agents that are presented with an opportunity to provide an agent reaction to one or more options, said method comprising:
- providing a first option set comprising a plurality of options;
dividing, with aid of a computer processor, the agent set into a first plurality of agent subsets, wherein the agents belonging to one or more individual agent subset of the agent set are randomly selected;
dividing the option set into a plurality of option subsets that comprehends the first option set;
assigning one or more different option subsets to each respective agent subset;
providing all the options in every assigned option subset to each agent within the respective agent subset;
receiving an agent reaction to all the options in every assigned option subset from each agent within the respective agent subset; and
inferring, with aid of a computer processor, a statistical estimation of the reaction of the agent set to each and every option in the first option set, based on a selected analysis of the agent reactions in the respective agent subsets to the assigned option subsets,wherein the ratio of the total number of options in the first option set to the number of options in the assigned option subsets provided to an individual respective agent subset is greater than or equal to 2;
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Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods that provide knowledge about a reaction (e.g. interest) of a group (normally of people) with respect to a set of elements, wherein each group member can react in a different manner. Assuming that the group is accessible by electronic means (e.g. Internet) this system may be based on a group response algorithm to estimate group reaction minimizing workload of group members and minimizing the time needed.
To minimize or reduce group members'"'"' workload and time, the algorithm uses statistic tools. The group response system estimates group reaction with previously set statistic reliability.
The present invention can use too in some cases, secondary algorithms for specific cases.
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47 Claims
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1. A computer aided method for estimating the reaction of an agent set comprising a plurality of agents that are presented with an opportunity to provide an agent reaction to one or more options, said method comprising:
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providing a first option set comprising a plurality of options; dividing, with aid of a computer processor, the agent set into a first plurality of agent subsets, wherein the agents belonging to one or more individual agent subset of the agent set are randomly selected; dividing the option set into a plurality of option subsets that comprehends the first option set; assigning one or more different option subsets to each respective agent subset; providing all the options in every assigned option subset to each agent within the respective agent subset; receiving an agent reaction to all the options in every assigned option subset from each agent within the respective agent subset; and inferring, with aid of a computer processor, a statistical estimation of the reaction of the agent set to each and every option in the first option set, based on a selected analysis of the agent reactions in the respective agent subsets to the assigned option subsets, wherein the ratio of the total number of options in the first option set to the number of options in the assigned option subsets provided to an individual respective agent subset is greater than or equal to 2;
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33. A method of determining opinions on a total set of options in a community comprising a
plurality of agents, the method comprising: -
defining a number of groups based on a number of options in the total set of options or an expected number of options; assigning each agent of said plurality to one of the groups; for each group, presenting to each agent within the group for evaluation a number of options fewer than the number of options in the total set of options; for each group, receiving from each agent an evaluation of each option presented to the agent; and determining, with aid of a processor, a best option or set of options according to community opinion using the evaluations received from each of the agents in each of the groups. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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46. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for determining opinions on a total set of options in a community comprising a plurality of agents, the process comprising:
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defining a number of groups based on a number of options in the total set of options or an expected number of options; assigning each agent of said plurality to one of the groups; for each group, presenting to each agent within the group for evaluation a number of options fewer than the number of options in the total set of options; for each group, receiving from each agent an evaluation of each option presented to the agent; and determining a best option or set of options according to community opinion using the evaluations received from each of the agents in each of the groups.
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47. A computer system that determines opinions on a total set of options in a community comprising a plurality of agents, the computer system comprising:
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a programmable processor configured to; define a number of groups based on a number of options in the total set of options or an expected number of options; assign each agent of said plurality to one of the groups; for each group, present to each agent within the group for evaluation a number of options fewer than the number of options in the total set of options; for each group, receive from each agent an evaluation of each option presented to the agent; and determine a best option or set of options according to community opinion using the evaluations received from each of the agents in each of the groups; and a display device configured to display the best option or set of options.
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