Process and heuristic statistic for prospect selection through data mining
First Claim
1. A method of identifying a final selection of prospects from a customer database containing a plurality of prospects for a product promotion, the method comprising:
- using a data mining technique, identifying an initial set of prospects in a customer database as initially identified prospects; and
,determining the final selection of prospects by performing one of a culling process and an augmenting process to, respectively, remove initially identified prospects from or add additional prospects of said customer database to the initial set of prospects using a heuristic measure H, until a count of prospects in said initial set of prospects matches a predetermined target number of prospects.
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Abstract
Method, system, and article of manufacture for selecting prospects for a product promotion though data mining. An initial set of prospects in a customer database is identified, by data mining, as initially identified prospects based on predetermined selection criteria. The number of initially identified prospects is compared to a target number of prospects. When the number of initially identified prospects matches the target number of prospects, the initially identified prospects are utilized as the final selection of prospects. When the number of initially identified prospects mismatches the target number of prospects, the final selection of prospects is determined by performing a culling process or an augmenting process to reduce or increase, respectively, the initial set of prospects using a heuristic measure H, until the number of prospects in the initial set of prospects matches the target number of prospects.
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57 Claims
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1. A method of identifying a final selection of prospects from a customer database containing a plurality of prospects for a product promotion, the method comprising:
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using a data mining technique, identifying an initial set of prospects in a customer database as initially identified prospects; and
,determining the final selection of prospects by performing one of a culling process and an augmenting process to, respectively, remove initially identified prospects from or add additional prospects of said customer database to the initial set of prospects using a heuristic measure H, until a count of prospects in said initial set of prospects matches a predetermined target number of prospects. - 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 system for identifying a final selection of prospects from a customer database containing a plurality of prospects for a product promotion, the system comprising:
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data mining means for identifying an initial set of prospects in a customer database as initially identified prospects by utilizing a data mining technique; and
,means for determining the final selection of prospects by performing one of a culling process means and an augmenting process means to, respectively, remove initially identified prospects from or add additional prospects of said customer database to the initial set of prospects using a heuristic measure H, until a count of prospects in said initial set of prospects matches a predetermined target number of prospects. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable code embodied in said medium for use in identifying a final selection of prospects from a customer database containing a plurality of prospects for a product promotion, comprising:
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data mining program code that identifies an initial set of prospects in a customer database as initially identified prospects by utilizing a data mining technique; and
,program code that determines the final selection of prospects by utilizing one of a culling process program code and an augmenting process program code to, respectively, remove initially identified prospects from or add additional prospects of said customer database to the initial set of prospects using a heuristic measure H, until a count of prospects in said initial set of prospects matches a predetermined target number of prospects. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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