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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2013
Affinnova, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Kevin D. Karty, Lincoln, MA (US);
Kamal M. Malek, Weston, MA (US);
David B. Teller, Cambridge, MA (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a computing device, data from at least one user, wherein at least a portion of the data is associated with the plurality of attribute variants. A variant relationship between one or more pairs of attribute variants of the plurality of attribute variants is determined based upon, at least in part, at least the portion of the data. The distance between the one or more pairs of objects is adjusted based upon, at least in part, the variant relationship between the one or more pairs of attribute variants of the plurality of attribute variants.