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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1998
Filed:
May. 27, 1997
Ronald Edward Bingham, Capitola, CA (US);
Michael Jon Dockter, Hollister, CA (US);
Joel Frank Farber, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Leon Pauser, Morgan HIll, CA (US);
Randal James Richardt, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for allowing communication of a large number of parameters from a computer user to an application program with a relatively small amount of interaction. The system uses a plurality of graphical metaphors to represent a collection of known personality or collective knowledge representations to extract a computer user's preferences. A computer user expresses how much likeness exists between themselves and a set of metaphoric graphical objects which is translated into an intermediary format which enables the computer to provide a higher quality of pattern matching and differentiation.