US 12,136,042 B2
Asymmetrical multilateral decision support system
Erin C. DeSpain, Sandy, UT (US)
Assigned to BrainThrob Laboratories, Inc., Sandy, UT (US)
Filed by BrainThrob Laboratories, Inc., Sandy, UT (US)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/921,975.
Application 16/921,975 is a continuation of application No. 15/649,267, filed on Jul. 13, 2017, granted, now 10,747,796.
Application 15/649,267 is a continuation of application No. 14/402,881, granted, now 9,727,640, issued on Aug. 8, 2017, previously published as PCT/US2013/042787, filed on May 27, 2013.
Application 14/402,881 is a continuation in part of application No. 13/480,529, filed on May 25, 2012, granted, now 8,560,478, issued on Oct. 15, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2020/0334280 A1, Oct. 22, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06N 5/02 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 10/00 (2023.01); G06Q 10/06 (2023.01)
CPC G06N 5/02 (2013.01) [G06F 16/3334 (2019.01); G06F 16/3347 (2019.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A decision support system for facilitating the recursive selection, evaluation, improvement, and completion of a limited set of useful surveys for a given decision over multiple iterations, comprising:
a central processor;
a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by the central processor, cause said central processor to perform operations comprising:
controlling, by said central processor, a survey management module; and
managing, by said survey management module, a provision of a plurality of surveys, said surveys having utility scores, said survey management module further comprising a genetic optimization module;
implementing, by said genetic optimization module, an iterative feedback process over multiple iterations, said implementing further comprising:
limiting, by said survey management module, an availability of at least one survey in a set of said surveys to be reviewed and/or selected by evaluators and/or respondents by comparing said utility score of said at least one survey against a threshold,
providing, by said survey management module, to said evaluators and/or respondents said set of surveys related to a given decision,
applying, by said survey management module, a limit to a total number of surveys available to be selected,
requiring, by said survey management module, said evaluators and/or said respondents to select surveys from said set of surveys used in said decision,
generating, by said survey management module, a relevance score for each survey in said set of surveys, each relevance score indicating relative utility of each survey,
improving, by said genetic optimization module, said utility scores of said selected surveys, and
depreciating, by said genetic optimization module, said utility scores of said excluded surveys.