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Method for categorizing, describing and modeling types of system users: Key Neurotech Patent #7

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– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 6,405,159

Today we are shar­ing a 2002 patent assigned to AT&T Labs, Inc. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date)

U.S. Patent No. 6,405,159: Method for cat­e­go­riz­ing, describ­ing and mod­el­ing types of sys­tem users

  • Assignee(s): AT&T Labs, Inc.
  • Inventor(s): Robert R. Bushey, Jen­nifer M. Mauney
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neu­roCog­ni­tive Training
  • Issue Date: June 11, 2002

SharpBrains’ Take:

While user inter­faces (UIs) are often gener­i­cal­ly built for large groups, orga­ni­za­tions or even the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion, the ‘159 patent dis­clos­es teach­ings that rec­og­nize that mod­els of each user based on unique per­son­al indi­ca­tors may be applied to tai­lor a UI to spe­cif­ic indi­vid­u­als and increase per­for­mance in impor­tant behav­ioral areas. [Read more…] about Method for cat­e­go­riz­ing, describ­ing and mod­el­ing types of sys­tem users: Key Neu­rotech Patent #7