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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2001
Andrew Conway, Stanford, CA (US);
Peter Eastman, Belmont, CA (US);
Howard Snortland, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Barrett Eynon, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew Conway, Stanford, CA (US);
Peter Eastman, Belmont, CA (US);
Howard Snortland, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Barrett Eynon, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a method and system for performing data mining autonomously with regard to a set of data, and formulating hypotheses in response thereto. An autonomous software element (a) collects sets of data, along with collateral data, into a unified extensible database; (b) formulates possibly interesting hypotheses with regard to those data; (c) evaluates hypotheses, thus relating each hypothesis against a probability it could have occurred by chance; (d) rates each hypothesis in response to multiple factors; (e) reports those hypotheses to users, selecting those users who are most likely to be interested and who are most interested in being informed.