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US 2006/0143067 A1Published application
Vendor-driven, social-network enabled review system with flexible syndication
AssigneeDiamond Review, Inc.
InventorHermann Calabria
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Abstract
The embodiments of the present system include a review engine that is connected to support modules and databases that receive, store and retrieve reviews, based upon the subject and the users' relationship to the authors of the reviews. The review engine comprises a social network engine, a rate and rank engine, a credentials engine and a privacy engine. These engines allow reviews to be sorted, filtered and ordered in terms of relevance when presented to the user. Numerous methods are also provided by the system that receive, store and retrieve reviews.
Claims31
A method, comprising:
- receiving a request for a review on a subject from a user;
- retrieving reviews pertaining to the subject;
- determining if the user is known or unknown;
- and
- providing the reviews to the user in a first manner if the user is known and in a second manner if the user is unknown.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a database that contains user information, user author information, and reviews;
- at least one interface to provide reviews from the database to a user;
- and
- a review engine that provides reviews to the interface selected from the database based at least in part on a calculated social distance between the user and an author of a review.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a user browser;
- a website;
- and
- a review provider engine that includes a database that contains user information, user author information, and reviews, wherein the review provider engine provides reviews to the user browser selected from the database based in part on a calculated social distance between the user and an author of a review.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.