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A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for balancing attainment of goals. First, a plurality of goals are presented to a user. The goals may be previously selected by the user or may include a default set of goals, for example. The user is permitted to adjust preferences related to

A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for balancing attainment of goals. First, a plurality of goals are presented to a user. The goals may be previously selected by the user or may include a default set of goals, for example. The user is permitted to adjust preferences related to a selected one or more of the goals. An impact on attaining some or all of the goals is determined based on the adjusted preferences. The impact on attaining the goals is then displayed to the user.

대표청구항 ▼

What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method for enabling users to make decisions by modeling tradeoffs between a plurality of personal goals, comprising:providing a system comprising at least one memory storing data and instructions, a display device, a user interface, at least one processo

What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method for enabling users to make decisions by modeling tradeoffs between a plurality of personal goals, comprising:providing a system comprising at least one memory storing data and instructions, a display device, a user interface, at least one processor having distinct software modules configured to access the at least one memory; andexecuting the instructions to perform the computer-implemented steps of:(a) receiving, via the user interface, information at a computing device from a user including information related to a cash flow of the user;(b) pictorially presenting to the user via the display device a plurality of goals based upon the information provided from the user,wherein the plurality of goals are related to the cash flow of the user, andwherein pictorially presenting the goals comprises displaying a plurality of images,each of the images representing a goal, andat least one of the images comprising a picture of the goal that reflects a time frame for achieving the goal or a quality of the goal, the quality related to an expensiveness of the goal;(c) allowing the user to select at least one goal of the plurality of goals via the user interface;(d) presenting to the user via the display device a plurality of user preferences for each selected goal, the user preferences including for each selected goal an adjustable time indicia and an adjustable quality indicia, wherein the adjustable time indicia denotes a preferred time frame when the user prefers to achieve the goal and the adjustable quality indicia denotes a preferred expensiveness of the goal preferred by the user;(e) allowing the user, via the user interface, to make an adjustment to user preferences related to one of the selected goals;(f) determining an impact of the adjustment on attaining the remaining goals, the impact comprising an impacted time period for achieving one of the remaining goals or an impacted quality of the one of the remaining goals; and(g) graphically presenting to the user via the display device the impact of the adjustment by again presenting simultaneously the image of the one of the selected goals as adjusted and the images of the remaining goals as impacted,wherein graphically presenting the impact of the adjustment comprises altering the appearance of a picture of the one of the remaining goals to reflect an inverse relationship between the time indicia or the quality indicia of the adjusted goal and the time indicia or the quality indicia of the one of the remaining goals, and to display an extent of the impact on the one of the remaining goals by displaying the picture of the one of the remaining goals adjusted to reflect the impacted time period or the impacted quality, andwherein altering the appearance of the picture comprises at least one of the following:changing a level of transparency of a display of the picture to reflect an adjusted priority of the one of the remaining goals,changing the level of transparency of the display of the picture to reflect an adjusted amount of time expected to achieve the one of the remaining goals, andreplacing the picture with another picture of the one of the remaining goals and representative of an adjusted expensiveness of the one of the remaining goals.