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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014

Filed:

May. 13, 2011
Applicant:

Michael Kim, Walnut Creek, CA (US);

Inventor:

Michael Kim, Walnut Creek, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving aggregate user data, the aggregate user data corresponding to response rate of one or more answering users responding to requests, processing the aggregate user data to generate one or more analytical models, each of the one or more analytical models providing a plurality probabilities that an average answering user will respond to a request, each probability of the plurality of probabilities corresponding to a particular time period during a day, receiving a request, determining a time corresponding to the request, identifying a plurality of answering users, processing the one or more analytical models based on the time to identify a sub-set of answering users of the plurality of answering users, and transmitting the request to each answering user of the sub-set of answering users.


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