Patent ID: 9215322
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for selecting a target, comprising: selecting, according to a combinatorial optimization executed on an automated processor, at least one first object from a plurality of available first objects, each respective first object having an associated first object profile, for association with a second object from a plurality of second objects, wherein the at least one first object and the second object are each identified humans, each respective second object having an associated second object profile, the associated second object profile representing at least temporally varying characteristics of the respective second object, based on at least a relative quantitative strength of relationship between the plurality of available first objects derived from the respective first object profiles and a predicted value of the at least temporally varying characteristics of the plurality of second objects derived from the respective second object profiles at a respective time of association of the at least one first object and a respective second object, the relative quantitative strength being determined based on a relationship of characteristics of the at least one first object reflected in the first object profile and characteristics of the second object reflected in the second object profile, said selecting comprising performing a cost-benefit or cost-efficiency analysis of a plurality of possible associations of the plurality of available first objects and the plurality of second objects, wherein a quantitative strength of a respective relationship is dependent on at least the cost-benefit or cost-efficiency analysis; and outputting the information identifying the at least one first object.