Patent ID: 6988132
Filing Date: 2006-01-17
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system to facilitate communications between parties, comprising: a first component associated with a request for attentional resources of a contactee, the first component is a contactor data store that includes preferences of a contactor relating to the request; a second component that facilitates a response to the request based in part on the utility of the request to the contactee, the second component is a contactee data store that includes preferences of the contactee relating to at least one of the request and the response; and a contact manager to facilitate communications between the contactor and the contactee based in part on the preferences of the parties, the request and the response, the contact manager including decision-theoretic formulae to facilitate communications between the parties, the decision-theoretic formulae including the following equation: A A context context C is an identity of the contactor; and p(context