Anna C Gordon

US Patent:

20190295023, Sep 26, 2019

Filed:

Apr 15, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/384906

Inventors:

James Gardner - Oakland CA, US
Anna Gordon - San Francisco CA, US
Andrew Guinther - Louisville CO, US
Manas Hardas - Union CIty CA, US

Assignee:

Spigit, Inc. - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

G06Q 10/06
G06F 17/18

Abstract:

The disclosure is directed to a system, method, and computer program for predicting the value of an idea based on crowd input. Users are prompted to vote as to whether variables for an idea (e.g., cost, time to implement, revenue/cost-savings) are greater than or less than proposed values. The proposed values are derived from probability distributions for the variables. Each time a vote is received for a variable, a new probability distribution for the variable is created, wherein parameters of the distribution (e.g., mean, shape parameter) are based on the vote data. The polling continues for each of the variables until a poll termination event occurs. The mean of the final probability distribution for each variable represents the system's estimate (or prediction) of the crowd's consensus value for the variable. Ideas are ranked based on the final consensus value estimates for the ideas.