Patent Issued for Systems and Methods for Translating Non-Comparable Values into Comparable Values for Use in Heuristics

摘要

From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: "Decision trees and other heuristics are commonly used as predictive models to map observations about an item with conclusions about the item's target value. For example, a security-software vendor may use decision trees as predictive models for identifying or detecting malicious computer files ('malware') based on attributes, characteristics, and/or behaviors of the files.