STATISTICAL MODELS AND METHODS TO SUPPORT PERSONALIZATION OF APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES VIA CONSIDERATION OF PREFERENCE ENCODINGS OF COMMUNITY OF USERS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To assist personalization of software applications and services.

SOLUTION: Information about population statistics and/or about the complete or partial preferences of other people are analyzed to infer recommendations for settings and functionality of a computer application or service. A system is reviewed with the ability to receive data regarding a plurality of users, and respective profiles of parameters are stored in a community store. The system can leverage off of these completed and/or partially completed profiles of parameters representing preferences about software operation in connection with building new profiles for users. Data regarding a user that desires to build a new profile are employed in connection with the community profiles to facilitate the user building a personalized profile.

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