Patent 8209274 was granted and assigned to Google on June, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining a plurality of representations of predictive models, each representation having been received from a different client wherein each representation is associated with a respective user and comprises a description of a respective predictive model, and selecting a model implementation from a plurality of model implementations for each of the obtained representations.