US 11,232,466 B2 · Recommendation for experiences based on measurements of affective response that are backed by assurances

Abstract

Some aspects of this disclosure include systems, methods, and/or computer programs that may be used to collect measurements of affective response of users and to utilize the collected measurements to generate a crowd-based result, such as a score for an experience which the users had. Some embodiments described herein involve sending requests for measurements of affective response to software agents operating on behalf of the users. The requests may provide details regarding the type of measurements requested and may also provide assurances. The assurances may relate to various aspects such as the number of users whose measurements are to be used to generate the crowd-based result, the disclosure of the crowd-based result (e.g., regarding the recipients of the crowd-based result), and the compensation for providing the measurements. Software agents that accept the assurances and have relevant measurements may provide the measurements, which are then utilized to generate the crowd-based result.

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Dependent claims

A system configured to compute a score for an experience while providing privacy-related assurances, comprising:

sensors configured to take measurements of affective response of users to the experience;
a computer configured to:
send, to software agents operating on behalf of the users, requests for the measurements of affective response of the users to the experience;
receive the measurements of affective response of users to the experience, which were sent by the software agents;
wherein each measurement is associated with an assurance that assures at least one of the following when the measurement is used to compute a score for the experience:
(i) the score is computed based on measurements of at least a certain number of the users, which is at least three, and (ii) the score is computed based on measurements that have a variance that reaches a certain threshold;
select a subset of the measurements and compute the score based on the subset;
wherein the subset comprises measurements of at least three of the users, the assurance associated with each of the measurements in the subset is not violated, and the subset does not include a certain measurement, from among the measurements, whose inclusion in the subset would violate the assurance associated with the certain measurement;
and
recommend the experience, responsive to the score reaching a predetermined threshold.

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A method for computing a score for an experience while providing privacy-related assurances, comprising:

sending, by a computer, to software agents operating on behalf of users, requests for measurements of affective response of the users to the experience;
taking, by sensors, the measurements of affective response of the users to the experience;
sending, by the software agents, the measurements of affective response of the users to the experience;
receiving, by the computer, the measurements of affective response of users to the experience;
wherein each measurement is associated with an assurance that assures at least one of the following when the measurement is used to compute a score for the experience:
(i) the score is computed based on measurements of at least a certain number of users, which is at least three, and (ii) the score is computed based on measurements that have a variance that reaches a certain threshold;
selecting a subset of the measurements and computing the score based on the subset;
wherein the subset comprises measurements of at least three of the users, the assurance associated with each of the measurements in the subset is not violated, and the subset does not include a certain measurement, from among the measurements, whose inclusion in the subset would violate the assurance associated with the certain measurement;
and
responsive to the score reaching a predetermined threshold, recommending the experience.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a system including a processor and memory, causes the system to perform operations comprising:

sending, by a computer, to software agents operating on behalf of users, requests for measurements of affective response of the users to an experience;
taking, by sensors, the measurements of affective response of the users to the experience;
sending, by the software agents, the measurements of affective response of the users to the experience;
receiving, by the computer, the measurements of affective response of users to the experience;
wherein each measurement is associated with an assurance that assures at least one of the following when the measurement is used to compute a score for the experience:
(i) the score is computed based on measurements of at least a certain number of users, which is at least three, and (ii) the score is computed based on measurements that have a variance that reaches a certain threshold;
selecting a subset of the measurements and computing the score based on the subset;
wherein the subset comprises measurements of at least three of the users, the assurance associated with each of the measurements in the subset is not violated, and the subset does not include a certain measurement, from among the measurements, whose inclusion in the subset would violate the assurance associated with the certain measurement;
and
responsive to the score reaching a predetermined threshold, recommending the experience.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Recommendation for experiences based on measurements of affective response that are backed by assurances

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Recommendation for experiences based on measurements of affective response that are backed by assurances

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Abstract

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