Christine M Long

US Patent:

20040049473, Mar 11, 2004

Filed:

Sep 5, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/235403

Inventors:

David John Gower - Blacklick OH, US
James Brennan - West Worthington OH, US
David Alford Burgoon - Columbus OH, US
Steven Cohen - Dublin OH, US
Christine Marie Long - Chicago IL, US
Robert David Quinn - Delaware OH, US
Dov Stuart Rosenberg - Bexley OH, US

International Classification:

G06F007/00
G06N005/04
G06F017/00
G06N005/02
G06F015/18

US Classification:

706/046000, 707/100000, 707/104100, 706/012000

Abstract:

One aspect of the present invention relates to methods and systems that utilize harvested data to predict results, populate predictive models, and allow decisions to be made. Internal structured data is grouped into items of interest and an event of interest is tagged. Data including unstructured and structured data is harvested, and the harvested data is analyzed to determine whether a predictive model exists between the harvested data and the selected group. A mathematical signature is computed based upon the external data in order to establish the predictive model. Thus the harvested information may be used to build, modify, or test predictive models of internal results based upon external events.