PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16390706
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["706", "046000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for evaluating various decision opportunities faced by a person, where the person has the opportunity to take different actions over time, where the state of affairs in each time period and the action taken affect the reward or benefits received by the person at that time and the action is likely to affect the state of affairs in the next time period.

Claim (Index 1):
A decision-making system, comprising:\n (a) a user input interface; (b) a user output device; and (c) a processor (A) facilitating input of information from a user via the user input interface, including facilitating user selection of (i) a type of decision to be made, (ii) at least one state available to a subject, (iii) at least one action available to the subject, (iv) a reward associated with an outcome, (v) a discount rate and a growth rate available to the subject, and (vi) a time index expressed in periods available to the subject, (B) validating and checking user provided inputs by determining whether at least one user provided input has a value within a predetermined limit, and performing a convergence check to determine whether the problem is solvable, wherein the convergence check (a) evaluates whether the reward function produces, for all combinations of state and actions, a reward that is less than an upper bound, which upper bound is a real number less than infinity; and (b) evaluates whether the discount factor is a real number strictly less than one, (C) generating the following elements from the information: (i) a set of states that describe possible outcomes, (ii) a set of possible actions by a decision maker, (iii) a transition probability function representative of the likelihood of a particular state occurring at a future time based on the current state and a particular action taken by the user, (iv) a reward function representative of the benefits and costs associated with each possible combination of state and action, (v) a discount factor determined from the growth rate and the discount rate and (vi) a time index that establishes a sequential ordering of events, (D) formulating the elements into a functional equation, (E) solving the functional equation, and (F) presenting the user with decision-making advice via the user output device, wherein the advice includes (a) a representation of a value function consisting of a mapping from each state to a value, and (b) the representation of a companion policy function consisting of a mapping of each state to a value-maximizing action; wherein steps (C), (D), (E) and (F) are completed only if the convergence check indicates that the input information can be formulated into a solvable functional equation, and the user is otherwise requested to provide additional input.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60465
- Patent Class: 706.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14982382', '14871029', '14458209', '12140846', '10198102']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4015335683086701
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4953176750619941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4109119789840025
- Mean Citation Score: 231.145436
- Max Citation Score: 278.1105
- Similarity Product: 229.64886495450145

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test