Vendor-driven, social-network enabled review collection system
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.
Claims36
A method, comprising:
- creating a locator code data structure;
- and
- storing instructions relating to obtaining one or more reviews pertaining to one or more subjects in the locator code data structure;
An apparatus, comprising:
- a database that contains locator code data structures;
- and
- an interface to provide and receive information to and from a user, the interface coupled to the database.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a database that contains reviews information, locator code information, subject information, and user information;
- an interface to provide and receive information to and from a user;
- and
- a review engine that executes instructions stored in the locator code information to control the interface in order to receive information from a user.
A method of controlling a reviews collection system comprising:
- entering a code into the system;
- using the entered code to receive reviews pertaining to one or more subjects;
- and
- storing the received one or more reviews pertaining to the one or more subjects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.