Patent ID: 8156058
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: G06N

Abstract:
1. A system for facilitating and documenting user thinking about an arbitrary problem, based on exemplary approaches used by expert problem solvers, with regard especially to at least one of analysis or synthesis or both, said system comprising: at least one of a non-transitory computer readable media, computer readable device, or memory, or a combination thereof, having processor executable instructions comprising: instructions to facilitate user specification of at least one problem or at least one conclusion, or both, related to an arbitrary problem; instructions to facilitate specification of analysis to specify at least one analysis structure related to the problem or conclusion or both; instructions to construct a resulting user model structure; instructions to relate at least one analysis construct to at least one other analysis construct; instructions to specify linkages or relationships of components of a user model structure; instructions to display, instructions to store or instructions to output at least a subset of the resulting user structure, or combination thereof.