Method and system for improving the selection of services in a service exchange environment
US8478660B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 19, 2011 |
| Grant date | Jul 2, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 30, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q30/00
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and a system for improving the selection of a group of services, in an exchange services environment, by a user of a telecommunication network. The following steps are comprised by the invention: defining a first set of requirements in a selection criteria manager module to be fulfilled by the services; performing a search among all services available, according to services functionalities defined in a service catalog and matching the first set of requirements; discarding services which do not fulfilled the first set of requirements; defining a second set of requirements in the selection criteria manager module, the second set of requirements indicates user preferences; assigning weights to the services taking into account the second set of requirements, data from an historical information module of previous selections of the user, data from a profile of the user with previous preferences; arranging all service combination according to the weights obtained, being the first one an optimal selection; storing the selection of the user at the historical information module.
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