Patent Document ID: 20080154807
Application ID: 11644172
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method comprising performing a machine-executed operation involving instructions, wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform certain steps including: receiving data that identifies a plurality of classes; receiving data that indicates that a data item has been designated as belonging to a particular class of the plurality of classes; receiving data that indicates that a prediction has been made that the data item belongs to a class from a ranked set of predicted classes, wherein the ranked set of predicted classes for the data item is a subset of the plurality of classes; if the particular class matches one of the top K classes in the ranked set of predicted classes, then treating the prediction as accurate; wherein the machine-executed operation is at least one of (a) sending the instructions over transmission media, (b) receiving the instructions over transmission media, (c) storing the instructions onto a machine-readable storage medium, or (d) executing the instructions.