Patent ID: 7689524

Claim:
A system that facilitates decision-making, comprising: a memory: one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory and disposed within one or more devices; a monitoring component that collects and filters information from a user and a surrounding environment; a decision-making component that receives the information and analyzes portions of the information based on user preferences stored in a user attribute store, the decision-making component generates a suggestion for implementing a decision to facilitate user decision making based on the analysis; a classifier that utilizes the monitoring component, the decision-making component and the user attribute store to perform a plurality of functions, wherein the classifier is a support vector machine (SVM) that operates by finding a hypersurface in the space of possible inputs, the hypersurface splitting the information from the user attribute store into a plurality of triggering events and a plurality of non-triggering events to enable the automatic performing of the plurality of functions; a mode selector that manages multiple personifications of the user when generating the suggestion, wherein the generated suggestion varies based on which of the multiple personifications the user selects; and a broadcast device that provides information regarding the user to a plurality of other users and devices, wherein the broadcast device confirms authorization of the plurality of other users and devices before providing the information regarding the user and determines the type of authorization of the plurality of other users and devices based at least in part on current environment information, current user information and stored individual preferences of the plurality of other users.