Steven P Deal

US Patent:

20140101079, Apr 10, 2014

Filed:

Oct 10, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/649105

Inventors:

Steven Vaughn Deal - Yellow Springs OH, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/18

US Classification:

706 12

Abstract:

A knowledge processing system that guides massive numbers of human agents and artificial agents to define, explore, and develop solutions for complex, problematic situations, that facilitates a seven-step process that proceeds from instance initiation, problem definition, problem exploration, approach selection, solution selection, to a time-sequenced action plan, and enables agents to subsequently modify process outputs and the action plan; a hybrid facilitation system in which machine and human agents jointly select the content and order of process steps and the system prompts that guide the problem-solving process; and an information-overload mitigation system which reduces the amount of information agents are required to process by means of natural language processing and graphical processing algorithms that characterize agent inputs and background materials, and identify, tag, sequester, and eliminate identical content and direct useful content to agent-defined points of application in the process.