Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automation of crowd-sourced polling
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Application No.: US14314648Application Date: 2014-06-25
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Publication No.: US10664927B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Benjamin Livshits , Todd Douglas Mytkowicz
- Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Medley, Behrens & Lewis, LLC
- Main IPC: G06Q50/00
- IPC: G06Q50/00 ; G06Q30/02 ; G06Q10/10

Abstract:
Various technologies described herein pertain to automation of crowd-sourced polling. At least one query can be received. The at least one query includes a request. A poll can be automatically generated based upon the at least one query, where the poll corresponds to the request. The poll can be submitted to a crowdsourcing backend, where instances of the poll are administered on the crowdsourcing backend. Moreover, crowd-sourced responses to the instances of the poll can be retrieved from the crowdsourcing backend. The crowd-sourced responses to the instances of the poll can respectively include crowd-sourced responses to the request. The crowd-sourced responses to the request can be converted to a random variable. An operation can be performed upon the random variable. The operation can include one or more of a statistical analysis (e.g., hypothesis testing), bias correction, an arithmetic operation, expected value computation, standard deviation computation, etc.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150379126A1 AUTOMATION OF CROWD-SOURCED POLLING Public/Granted day:2015-12-31
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