# US20150073870A1: Crowdsourced Initiatives Tracking, Development, Evaluation And Scoring

- Kind: Published application
- Family: Blockchain-Based Crowdsourced Initiatives Tracking System (https://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/patents/blockchain-based-crowdsourced-initiatives-tracking-system)
- USPTO status: Abandoned  --  Failure to Respond to an Office Action (as of 2017-08-14; record read 2026-09-27)
- Application: 14025493
- Filed: 2013-09-12
- Published: 2015-03-12
- Inventor: Shahid N. Shah
- Rights holder: Intellectual Frontiers LLC
- Classifications (CPC): G06Q 30/0203, G06Q 10/40, G06Q 10/063, G06Q 30/0206, G06Q 50/184
- Continued in part by US11270263B2

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## Abstract

An initiatives exchange ecosystem includes a computing device operatively connected to a crowdsourced initiatives exchange network. The initiatives include an innovation and corresponding sub-innovations such that each innovation tracks sub-innovations. The ecosystem further includes a web platform accessible through a user interactive interface through the computing device and a processing circuit. The processing circuit includes an initiatives tracking engine that develops or tracks sub-innovations corresponding to an innovation in the crowdsourced initiatives exchange network. The initiatives are developed or tracked by performing a set of automated tasks aiming to change configurations of a parent innovation in at least one of the attributes or elements such that the resulting sub-innovation is different from the parent innovation in at least one of the categories.

## Independent claims

1. An initiatives exchange ecosystem comprising: a computing device operatively connected to a crowdsourced initiatives exchange network, wherein said initiatives include an innovation and corresponding sub-innovations such that each innovation tracks sub-innovations; a web platform accessible through a user interactive interface through said computing device; a processing circuit including or coupled to: an initiatives tracking engine that develops or tracks sub-innovations corresponding to an innovation in said crowdsourced initiatives exchange network, wherein said initiatives are developed or tracked by performing a set of automated tasks aiming to change configurations of a parent innovation in at least one of said attributes or elements such that said resulting sub-innovation is different from said parent innovation in at least one of said categories including physical property, chemical property, biologic property, end usage, functionality, portability, cost effectiveness, and product type and bear a similarity relationship thread with said parent invention; and a central initiatives management engine including: an evaluation module for evaluating said initiatives based on one or more inputs; and a scoring module for associating a score to each of said initiatives based on an evaluation output; an enterprise asset library to serve as a knowledge repository for storing information pertinent to said initiatives including initiatives documents, invention disclosures, innovator profiles, innovator credentialing details, said evaluation output, and said associated scores; a financial transaction engine coupled to said processing circuit for: exploring a plurality of target agency requirements within and outside said initiatives exchange network; determining a degree of relevance of an initiative with said target agency requirements; and determining a financial value of said initiative for said target agency; an initiatives transfer engine for facilitating transfer of rights associated with said initiatives once said financial transaction is settled.

14. A method for tracking or developing and scoring sub-innovations from an innovation in an initiatives exchange ecosystem, said method comprising: developing or tracking sub-innovations corresponding to an innovation in the crowdsourced initiatives exchange network, wherein said initiatives are developed or tracked by performing a set of automated tasks aiming to change configurations of a parent innovation in at least one of said attributes or elements such that said resulting sub-innovation is different from said parent innovation in at least one of said categories including physical property, chemical property, biologic property, end usage, functionality, portability, cost effectiveness, and product type and bear a similarity relationship thread with said parent invention; evaluating said initiatives based on one or more inputs, wherein said one or more inputs include credentialed score, officiality, and reputation of said innovator, novelty search output, non-obviousness decision, significance of said initiatives for a target agency, revenue potential, and market coverage; associating a score to each of said initiatives based on an evaluation output; and outputting said score to a computing device.

19. A non-transitory program storage device readable by computer, and comprising a program of instructions executable by said computer to perform a method for tracking or developing and scoring sub-innovations from an innovation in an initiatives exchange ecosystem, said method comprising: developing or tracking sub-innovations corresponding to an innovation in said crowdsourced initiatives exchange network, wherein said initiatives are developed or tracked by performing a set of automated tasks aiming to change configurations of a parent innovation in at least one of said attributes or elements such that said resulting sub-innovation is different from said parent innovation in at least one of said categories including physical property, chemical property, biologic property, end usage, functionality, portability, cost effectiveness, and product type and bear a similarity relationship thread with said parent invention; evaluating said initiatives based on one or more inputs, wherein said one or more inputs include credentialed score, officiality, and reputation of said innovator, novelty search output, non-obviousness decision, significance of said initiatives for a target agency, revenue potential, and market coverage; and associating a score to each of said initiatives based on an evaluation output.

Source: https://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/patents/blockchain-based-crowdsourced-initiatives-tracking-system/us20150073870a1