Patent ID: 6195643
Filing Date: 2001-02-27
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
In a decision making system, a method of performing a detailed level evaluation of one or more products or articles based on a decision maker's response to one or more questions relating to the decision maker's functional requirements comprising:(1) the decision maker providing a response result representing how important a particular detailed requirement is to that decision maker in response to a question relating to the decision makers functional requirement(s), taking into account a predefined result type;(2) the response result is compared with a product result, wherein the product result is a data element reflecting the functional capability of the article or product in relation to the detailed requirement, thereby producing an evaluation ratio and optionally the evaluation ratio may be associated with a significance level reflecting how well the product result meets the decision maker's corresponding functional requirement;(3) calculating evaluation ratios so as to include information relating to whether the functional requirement is provided by one or more modules; and(4) providing an output setting for a particular product or article and a particular detailed requirement, the number of proportion of functional requirements within said particular detailed requirement as a function of significance level, wherein the evaluation ratio is the product result divided by the response result or the response result divided by the product result, the choice being made so that a higher evaluation ratio corresponds to a greater degree of suitability to the decision maker's functional requirements.