Automated objective-based feature improvement

US8706733B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Google LLC · US

Inventors

• Zach Yeskel · San Francisco, US
• David Andrew Huffaker · Palo Alto, US
• Rachel Ida Rosenthal Schutt · New York, US
• Andrew Tomkins · Menlo Park, US
• David A. Gibson · Austin, US
• Abhijit Bose · Ann Arbor, US
• Alexander Fabrikant · Palo Alto, US
• Makoto Uchida · Tokyo, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 27, 2012
• Grant date: Apr 22, 2014
• Expiry date: Oct 18, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating automatic objective-based feature improvement, the method including receiving a request to identify an optimal alternative for each of one or more features of a computer-implemented entity, determining an alternative feature range for each of the one or more features, the alternative feature range defining a range of possible alternative features available with respect to the feature, selecting one or more alternative features for each feature from the alternative feature range of the feature, generating a plurality of alternative sets, each including an alternative feature for at least one of the one or more features, selecting a plurality of user groups from a pool of users and assigning each user group of the plurality of users groups to one of the plurality of alternative sets based on user characteristics of the users and historical information regarding the interaction of the user with the computer-implemented entity.