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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2002
Marcus Thint, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Simon J Case, Saxmundham, GB;
Marcus Thint, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Simon J Case, Saxmundham, GB;
British Telecommunications public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
Appropriate updates to a respective user profile are inferred from monitored user activity. Such updates are suitable for use with applications programs that customize services based upon data and attributes stored in a user profile. The apparatus is arranged to personalize various aspects of a preferred profile updating process on the basis of stored user preferences, applying meta-rules to apply those user preferences to the definition of a set of personalized rule weights to be applied in a fuzzy inference process that infers profile updates by applying fuzzy rules and fuzzy sets to the analysis of event statistics derived from the results of user monitoring. The personalized rule weights are applied to selectively adjust the effect of particular fuzzy rules. In addition, mapping of event statistics to fuzzy rule premises in the fuzzy inference process may be personalized through the use of user-defined fuzzy sets.