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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
May. 04, 2012
Richard Tyler Curtis, Washington, DC (US);
Kyle Yost, Washington, DC (US);
Richard Tyler Curtis, Washington, DC (US);
Kyle Yost, Washington, DC (US);
OPOWER, INC., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Illustrative embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and computer systems for reporting a consumer's usage of a resource. A computer system retrieves consumer characteristic data and resource usage data for the first consumer and a set of second consumers including characteristic data related to each consumer. The computer system selects at least one consumer that is similar to the first consumer from the set of second consumers based upon a plurality of common criteria between the first consumer's characteristic data and a second consumer's characteristic data. The computer processes may be performing iteratively until the total number of similar consumers is equal to or greater than the predetermined number of consumers. Once a desired number of similar consumers is found, the computer system generates a report that displays the first consumer's resource usage data and the at least one similar consumers' resource usage data.