IDENTIFICATION AND ALTERING OF USER ROUTINES

• US 20160093226A1
• Filed: 09/29/2014
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Fitoussi, Hen, Machluf, Amit, Schlesinger, Benny
• Application Number:
  US14/500,765
• Publication Number:
  US 20160093226A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F

Abstract

A computerized method includes identifying a first routine of a first user and determining an alteration for the first routine. The alteration can be determined based at least in part on a second routine, where the second routine corresponds to a second user. In addition, or instead, the determining may be based at least in part on generating and selecting one or more alterations and/or selecting one or more enumerated alterations for the first routine. The first routine can be simulated with the alteration to predict a first performance score with respect to multiple future iterations of at least the altered first routine. The alteration may be selected for the first routine based on the prediction of the first performance score and a second performance score with respect to at least the unaltered first routine. The selected alteration for the first routine may be presented to the first user.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:

identifying a first routine of a first user, wherein the first routine corresponds to at least one recurring behavior of the first user;

determining an alteration for the first routine of the first user based at least in part on a second routine of a second user, wherein the second routine corresponds to at least one recurring behavior of the second user;

simulating the first routine with the alteration based on historical data associated with the alteration, wherein the simulation predicts a first performance score with respect to multiple future iterations of at least the altered first routine;

selecting the alteration for the first routine based on the predicted first performance score and a second performance score with respect to at least the unaltered first routine; and

presenting the selected alteration for the first routine to the first user.

2. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the alteration for the first routine offloads at least a portion of the second routine to the first routine.

3. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the alteration for the first routine combines at least a portion of the second routine with the first routine.

4. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the identifying the alteration for the first routine is based on at least one hard constraint of the second user.

5. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the selecting the alteration for the first routine is further based on a first group performance score that incorporates the predicted first performance score and a second group performance score that incorporates the second performance score.

6. The one or more computer storage media of claim 5, wherein the predicted first performance score corresponds to a degradation of the second performance score and the selecting is based on the first group performance score indicating an improvement to the second group performance score.

7. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, further comprising receiving user feedback from the first user, wherein the user feedback indicates a level of satisfaction of the first user with respect to the presented alteration for the first routine.

8. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, further comprising a modifying a performance preference of the first user based on user feedback received in response to the presenting of the selected alteration.

9. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the alteration for the first routine violates a user constraint of at least one of the first and second users.

10. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, further comprising generating the alteration for the first routine at least one day prior to the presenting.

11. A computer implemented method comprising:

identifying a routine of a user, wherein the routine corresponds to at least one recurring behavior of the user;

simulating the routine with an alteration based on historical data associated with the alteration, wherein the simulating predicts a first performance score with respect to multiple future iterations of the altered routine;

selecting the alteration for the routine based on the predicted first performance score and a second performance score with respect to the unaltered routine; and

presenting the selected alteration for the routine to the user.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein the predicted first performance score and the second predicted performance score are generated using a common performance metric.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein the selecting is based on the predicted first performance score indicating an improvement with respect to the second performance score.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein the second performance score corresponds to the unaltered routine as performed by the user.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein the simulating is performed at least one day prior to the presenting of the selected alteration for the routine to the user.

16. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein the selecting of the alteration is based on at least one performance preference of the user.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 11, further comprising generating the alteration for the routine based on at least one hard constraint of the user.

18. A computerized system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

identify a routine of a user, wherein the routine corresponds to at least one recurring behavior of the user;

simulate the routine with an alteration based on historical data associated with the alteration, wherein the simulation predicts a first performance score with respect to multiple future iterations of the altered routine;

select the alteration for the routine based on the predicted first performance score and a second performance score with respect to the unaltered routine; and

present the selected alteration for the routine to the user.

19. The computerized system of claim 18, wherein the alteration for the routine is selected based on the predicted first performance score indicating an improvement with respect to the second performance score.

20. The computerized system of claim 18, wherein the second performance score corresponds to the unaltered routine as performed by the user.