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Method and system of determining a prioritized list of users related to a given goal

US8825561B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Rachel K. E. Bellamy · Bedford, US
Margaret Myers Burnett · Corvallis, US
Joseph A. Lawrance · Braintree, US
Peter K. Malkin · Yorktown Heights, US
John T. Richards · Honeoye Falls, US
Clay E. Williams · New York, US

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 10, 2009
Grant date	Sep 2, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 25, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG09B7/04
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system of determining a prioritized list of one or more users related to a given goal obtaining a set of places, determine one or more future places an expert associated with a given goal is predicted to visit to accomplish the given goal, obtain a history of one or more places users have visited, determine one or more historical places from the history of one or more places that match the future places, and identify one or more users associated with the determined one or more historical places.

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