Group polling for consumer review
OwnerNorman Shiinventor
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Abstract
Using a computer system comprising clients at which users interface to the computer system and at least one review server that maintains a collection of reviews, each associated with a presentation, a method of collecting the reviews including providing a first presentation to a first user via a first client associated with the first user; maintaining a trust network linking the first user to the other users in the trust network; receiving a request for a review from the first user via the first client; routing a request for a review to the users in the trust network who are linked to the first user in the trust network; and saving at least some of the returned reviews in the collection of review.
Claims27
A method of collecting reviews over a network, the method comprising:
- providing a first presentation to a first user via a first client associated with the first user;
- maintaining a trust network linking the first user to other users in the trust network;
- receiving a request for a review from the first user via the first client;
- routing a request for the review to the users in the trust network linked to the first user;
- and
- saving at least one of the returned reviews on at least one review server that maintains a collection of reviews, wherein each saved review is associated with the first presentation.
A consumer review method for soliciting reviews to a query comprising:
- presenting a Web presentation to a client associated with a first user;
- presenting a user interface to the client, wherein the user interface is configured to send a query about the Web presentation;
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- sending the query to a set of clients associated with a set of users to solicit a set of reviews to the query from the set of users, wherein the set of users has a known relationship with the first user.
A review solicitation system comprising:
- at least one query system configured to receive a request for a query from a requester;
- and
- a review server configured to publish a request page on the query system, wherein the request page is configured to receive the request, and wherein the review server is configured to automatically send the query to a set of clients associated with a set of reviewers, wherein the reviewers are members of a trust network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.