Patents by Inventor Hielke Roelof van der Scheer

Hielke Roelof van der Scheer 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).

  • System to provide consumer preference information
    Patent number: 7958006
    Abstract: A system to determine preference information in which preference information associated with a consumer is determined, the preference information is validated, and the preference information is mixed with preference information associated with a plurality of consumers based on the validating step. The validating step may includes provision of trade-off questions to the consumer, reception of actual answers to the trade-off questions, prediction of consumer answers to the trade-off questions based on the preference information associated with the consumer and prediction of subgroup answers to the trade-off questions based on the preference information associated with the plurality of consumers. Moreover, the preference information may be mixed with the preference information associated with the plurality of consumers based on the actual answers, the predicted consumer answers and the predicted subgroup answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: True Choice Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Sev K. H. Keil, Dick R. Wittink, Hielke Roelof van der Scheer
  • System to provide consumer preference information
    Publication number: 20030040952
    Abstract: A system to determine preference information in which preference information associated with a consumer is determined, the preference information is validated, and the preference information is mixed with preference information associated with a plurality of consumers based on the validating step. The validating step may includes provision of trade-off questions to the consumer, reception of actual answers to the trade-off questions, prediction of consumer answers to the trade-off questions based on the preference information associated with the consumer and prediction of subgroup answers to the trade-off questions based on the preference information associated with the plurality of consumers. Moreover, the preference information may be mixed with the preference information associated with the plurality of consumers based on the actual answers, the predicted consumer answers and the predicted subgroup answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Sev K. H. Keil, Dick R. Wittink, Hielke Roelof van der Scheer