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Social learning inferencing engine for intelligent agent environment

  • US 5,937,397 A
  • Filed: 04/10/1997
  • Issued: 08/10/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/10/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A social learning inferencing engine implemented as a computer process on a distributed data base to predict a user'"'"'s score for objects on the distributed data base, said process comprising the steps of:

  • establishing a user class containing member fields that identify the user, specify configuration values specific to the user, and links to objects that the user has scored or referenced;

    establishing an object class containing member fields that identify an object and links to user objects that have scored or referenced the object;

    associating user object links to actual scores given by the user for the objects, a comment given by the user and associated with the score, and a number of references made by the user to the objects;

    calculating similarity measures for each user class to every other user class and similarity measures for each object class to every other object class based on the scores and the number of references associated with the user object links;

    using the similarity measures of the user classes and the similarity measures of the object classes to predict a score that the user would give the object; and

    displaying objects to the user that have a predicted score above a threshold set by the user.

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