Patent ID: 7308378

Claim:
A system for determining the classification of an unclassified signal comprising: a computer system having a processor; an input for receiving one or more unclassified signals having one or more attributes; a plurality of training signals associated with one or more known classifications, wherein each of the training signals has a plurality of training signal attributes; the computer system further comprising a first reduct calculator for calculating one or more reducts that include the minimum number of training signal attributes that are required to correctly classify the plurality training signals; the computer system further comprising a classifier for classifying a plurality of unclassified signals as a function of the one or more reducts and one or more attributes of the unclassified signals; the computer system further comprising a marginal reduct identifier for determining if one or more reducts provided one or more marginal classifications; the computer system further comprising a reduct classification fuser for combining one or more marginal reducts if identified by the marginal reduct identifier to determine a final classification; and an output for providing an output indicative of the final classification of one or more of the plurality of unclassified signals.