Patent ID: 7313267

Claim:
A method for automated encoding of complex system architectures for a pattern recognition classifier, comprising: creating a generic classification object having a plurality of associated features, a plurality of associated output classes, a plurality of associated classification techniques, and a plurality of associated preprocessing techniques; generating a configuration file for the generic classification object, wherein generating the configuration file comprises: defining a plurality of subclassifiers, wherein each subclassifier is defined as a plurality of selected classifier components associated with a the generic classifier, the plurality of selected components comprising: a subset of a plurality of features associated with the generic classifier; a subset of a plurality of output classes associated with the generic classifier; at least one classification technique from a plurality of classification techniques associated with the generic classifier; and a subset of a plurality of preprocessing techniques associated with the generic classifier; and establishing a set of rules for transitioning among the defined plurality subclassifiers such that a classification result from a first subclassifiers from the defined plurality of subclassifiers is utilized to select between at least second and third subclassifiers from the plurality of subclassifiers; encoding the established set of rules and the selected plurality of classifier components for each of the defined plurality of subclassifiers into the configuration file; providing the configuration file to the generic classifier object via a computer network; and combining a first instance of the generic classifier object with the configuration file as to produce a first functional classification system having a complex system architecture.