Patent ID: 7756806
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: G06N

Abstract:
1. A system for facilitating collaborative or cooperative user thinking about an arbitrary problem for groups or multiple users, comprising: one or more computer readable media, memory, or computer readable devices, or a combination thereof, having processor executable instructions, said instructions comprising: instructions to facilitate user specification of at least one of a at least one problem and a at least one conclusion, or both; instructions to facilitate at least one of user specification or derivation, or both, of knowledge, related to at least one of the at least one problem specification and the at least one conclusion specification, or both, to populate a knowledge structure; instructions to persuade multiple user interaction to sequence series of interactions within a predefined set of interaction sequences, wherein the predefined set of interactions define a collaborative archetype process for multiple users thinking about the at least one problem; instructions to subdivide or partition, or both, at least one of the problem specification, knowledge specification and conclusion specification, or a combination thereof, into more than one subset; At least one of instructions to display, instructions to store and instructions to output at least a subset of the resulting user structure, or any combination thereof.