System and method for overcoming decision making and communications errors to produce expedited and accurate group choices
First Claim
1. A method for producing an error-resilient collective group decision from a plurality of voters on a communications network comprising:
- establishing a voting agenda having at least one of question to be voted on;
determining a voting objective;
presenting the voting agenda to each of the plurality of voters;
calculating a voting termination point based upon vote scoring methods and the voting objective;
allowing each of the plurality of users to vote;
receiving votes until the voting termination point;
processing the votes with a plurality of vote scoring methods to produce a collective group decision that is resilient to errors; and
performing a gap analysis on the votes.
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Abstract
A system and method is provided overcoming decision-making and communications errors to produce expedited and accurate group choices. The invention provides collective outcomes that are resilient to communication and decision making errors, and which are provided with a minimum wait time. The system comprises a user interface engine that provides a channel to the features of the present invention, an agenda manager module for creating and presenting questions, a user manager module that controls interactions with user who request questionnaires, submit response data, and request access to analytical results, and a report manager module that identifies collective outcomes that are resilient to error and/or that weight individual votes to optimize the group'"'"'s performance in producing one or more correct or optimal collective choices. A common data exchange allows communication between the modules.
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24 Claims
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1. A method for producing an error-resilient collective group decision from a plurality of voters on a communications network comprising:
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establishing a voting agenda having at least one of question to be voted on; determining a voting objective; presenting the voting agenda to each of the plurality of voters; calculating a voting termination point based upon vote scoring methods and the voting objective; allowing each of the plurality of users to vote; receiving votes until the voting termination point; processing the votes with a plurality of vote scoring methods to produce a collective group decision that is resilient to errors; and performing a gap analysis on the votes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of acquiring data from a plurality of sensors comprising:
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providing a communications network interconnecting a plurality of sensors with a central processor; determining a plurality of vote scoring methods; calculating a data acquisition termination point based upon vote scoring methods and a voting objective; determining a group of sensors to activate to achieve the voting objective, acquiring data from the group of sensors until the data acquisition termination point; and processing acquired data using the plurality of scoring methods to produce a collective group decision. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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