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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Rui Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Chow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Maurice Kyojin Chu, Burlingame, CA (US);
Kurt E. Partridge, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rui Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Chow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Maurice Kyojin Chu, Burlingame, CA (US);
Kurt E. Partridge, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A performance-efficient activity-modeling system generates a group-activity model for a population group using information from an optimal subset of users of the population group. During operation, the system computes utility scores for a set of users based on a utility-scoring function, such that a respective utility score indicates a usefulness or penalty of collecting a corresponding user's contextual information. The system then selects, from the set of users, a subset of users with highest utility scores, and receives user information from each of the selected users. The system generates the group-activity model based on the user information received from the selected users.