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US 5,963,931 AGranted
Computer-assisted decision management system
AssigneeExpert Systems Publishing Co.
InventorsFred D. Fagg, III, Peter D. Bergsman
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AssigneeExpert Systems Publishing Co.
InventorsFred D. Fagg, III, Peter D. Bergsman
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A system for assisting a user in making decisions on a task through the asking of questions about the task and providing answer choices to the questions for the user. The system includes a set of question procedures which include a reference to another procedure and also answer procedures which include references to other procedures. Questions are dynamically generated by executing a question procedure which, in turn, calls a referenced procedure to generate a result based on one or more previous answers by the user. The referenced procedure passes the result to the question procedure for use in generating the question. The same process is used for dynamically generating answer choices for the questions. The referenced procedures may include, among other things, fetches of previous answers, conditional statements that choose among possible results based on a previous answer, or references to still other procedures. With this system, the questions and answers are kept current as the user moves through them. Advice for the questions and answer choices may also be dynamically generated.
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