Patents by Inventor Cees van Riel

Cees van Riel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220366438
    Abstract: A system and method for determining and managing reputation of an entity or industry includes determining a sample size of the population that provides at least a pre-defined percent confidence interval, and which has the predefined level of familiarity (unique group); determining a measure of likelihood that the targeted population will perform a positive action on behalf of an entity (behavioral connection score), wherein determining the measure of the likelihood that the targeted population will perform a positive action on behalf of an entity comprises: receiving survey ratings from behavioral connection survey questions where each survey rating is provided by a party within the unique group; weighting the received survey ratings to accommodate for at least one of the group consisting of cultural bias and missed demographic quotas; and aggregating the ratings within each individual question to provide a single aggregated behavioral connection score for each behavioral connection survey question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Charles Fombrun, Mark Haseltine, Anna Litvak-Hinenzon, Cees Van Riel
  • Publication number: 20220261825
    Abstract: A system and method for determining and managing reputation of an entity or industry includes cleaning data to derive a highly reliable, demographically representative sample of a survey population, sized to provide a ninety-five percent or greater confidence interval from individuals familiar with the entity; determining a reputation perception score of the entity; determining reputation factor scores; determining reputation driver scores; and determining a reputation driver weight and reputation driver order of importance to entity reputation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Charles Fombrun, Mark Haseltine, Anna Litvak-Hinenzon, Kasper Ulf Nielsen, Nicolas Georges Trad, Cees van Riel, Kylie Wright-Ford
  • Publication number: 20220261824
    Abstract: A system and method for determining and managing reputation of an entity or industry includes determining a sample size of the population that provides at least a pre-defined percent confidence interval, and which has the predefined level of familiarity (unique group); determining a measure of likelihood that the targeted population will perform a positive action on behalf of an entity (behavioral connection score), wherein determining the measure of the likelihood that the targeted population will perform a positive action on behalf of an entity comprises: receiving survey ratings from behavioral connection survey questions where each survey rating is provided by a party within the unique group; weighting the received survey ratings to accommodate for at least one of the group consisting of cultural bias and missed demographic quotas; and aggregating the ratings within each individual question to provide a single aggregated behavioral connection score for each behavioral connection survey question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Charles Fombrun, Mark Haseltine, Anna Litvak-Hinenzon, Cees van Riel