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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:
Mar. 29, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 04, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jalal U. Mahmud, San Jose, CA (US);

Nimrod Megiddo, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jeffrey W. Nichols, San Jose, CA (US);

Michelle X. Zhou, Saratoga, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30604 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/30876 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments relate to optimizing user response rate in social media. One embodiment includes generating a model for modeling a likelihood of social media user response from data collected from social media based on social media user filtering criteria and historical information. Modeling the likelihood includes estimating ability of social media users to perform a particular task based on social media user information including tracking of the social media users, evaluating previous task responses and personality features. Social media users are selected based on estimated ability to perform the particular task for maximizing a response rate.


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