Massachusetts Inventor Develops Team-Member Contributions Analysis System

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 27 -- Philip James Campaigne of Harvard, Mass., has developed a method for a plurality of reporters to collectively report team-member activity that is causal to team achievement.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and system for a plurality of reporters to collectively self-organize, for the purpose of identifying, measuring and recording team-member activity that is causal to team achievement. The method includes steps of role selection, information discovery, information reporting and information aggregation of team-member activity that is causal to team achievement. It includes means for creating a common perspective among reporters, a common means to judge the value of team-members' contributions, means for collective self-organizing and self-training by reporters, and means for valuing reporters' contributions to the reporting process."

An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "One preferred embodiment is a game that enables a large group of humans to determine the critical few actions and collaborations that lead to winning a basketball game viewed live, via TV or internet broadcast. Another preferred embodiment is a game for maximizing the selling activity of a commercial sales group."

The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,153,211 on Dec. 26.

The patent has been assigned to Bect Power Inc., Harvard.

The original application was filed on July 10, 2001, and is available at:http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,153,211.PN.&OS=PN/7,153,211&RS=PN/7,153,211.

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