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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2002
Applicants:
Jianming Dong, Austin, TX (US);
Paul David Waldo, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Jianming Dong, Austin, TX (US);
Paul David Waldo, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Card-sorting exercises are used to understand how users would intuitively group or sort information topics, in order to better design an instrument that provides these topics, such as a website. When a user is not familiar with some of the topics, they are allowed to leave these items unsorted, in order that wild guesses do not skew the results. The algorithm verifies that the unsorted items are unfamiliar, then tracks instances of unsorted items so that these responses are mathematically removed from the calculations.