Patent ID: 9224126
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method implemented in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium and processed by one or more processors configured to perform the method, comprising: receiving a request to initiate an online collaborative decision process referred to as a buzz, the request received from a principal; acquiring, from the principal, goals for success of the buzz, participant criteria for participants in the buzz, and policies for managing and concluding the buzz, the principal criteria provided as a list of roles that define when identities are assigned to those roles, those role-assigned identities comprise the participants, and dynamically evaluating selection policies defined in the principal criteria to resolve some of the identities, the identities comprise the participants, and wherein at least one of the participants participates in the buzz using multiple different identities; initiating the buzz online for participation by the participants and the principal; and managing the buzz in accordance with the policies to automatically make decisions based on the policies, proposals, and goals of the buzz by interrogating and using at least in part recorded activities and histories for each of the identities and the buzz as a whole in making the decisions.