Patent 7095875 was granted and assigned to Lockheed Martin on August, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method to arbitrate between results obtained from observationally derived data by several procedures, where the results are items characteristic of the observationally derived data is disclosed. Each procedure is given a ranking according to the confidence on the procedure. The results and characteristics derived from the results are used in a plurality of rules, where the rules are used to arbitrate between the results.