Patent ID: 9299025
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06N

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising the steps of: setting an error ratio threshold; comparing a user-specified context comprising one or more natural language contextual antecedents to a plurality of cases stored in a case base, each case stored in the case base comprising one or more case antecedents and one or more case consequents; determining if a matching case exists in the case base, wherein the matching case is the case having case antecedents that exactly match the contextual antecedents; selecting the matching case if it exists, else selecting a best matching case, wherein the step of selecting a best matching case includes generalizing the case antecedents of the cases stored in the case base and comparing the user-specified context to the cases stored in the case base having generalized antecedents to determine the best-matching case, wherein the generalization of the case antecedents involves minimizing |S displaying the case consequents of the selected case to a user.