Promoting Learned Discourse In Online Media
OwnerStephen B. Heppe, Kenan G. Heppeinventors
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Abstract
In one example, a method for promoting learned discourse in online forums includes posting forum content on a forum server and providing access to users to the content through an I/O module. The method further includes receiving a comment from a user and analyzing the comment from the user to produce an a priori score for the comment. A portable certificate of status is accepted from the user and used to produce a posteriori score for the comment. A system for promoting learned discourse in online forms is also disclosed.
Claims20
A method for promoting learned discourse in online forums comprising:
- posting forum content on a forum server and providing access to users to the content through an I/O module;
- receiving a comment from a user;
- analyzing, with a content analysis module executed on a computer processor, the comment from the user to produce an a priori score for the comment;
- accepting a portable certificate of status from a user;
- and
- using the portable certificate of status, with a scoring module executed on the computer processor, to produce an a posteriori score for the comment.
A method for establishing status using portable status certificates comprising:
- accepting, by a receiving computing device, an encrypted portable status certificate issued by an issuer for a user;
- accessing a public key of the issuer;
- decrypting, with a computer processor of the receiving computing device, the encrypted portable status certificate;
- verifying that the encrypted portable status certificate was issued by the issuer;
- and
- assigning a score to content submitted by the user to a forum according to a status contained in the encrypted portable status certificate.
A method for producing a portable status certificate comprising:
- evaluating a user's online interaction in relation to a set of performance criteria;
- assigning a status to the user based on the interaction;
- generating, with a computer processor, an encrypted portable status certificate by encrypting the status of the user with a private key;
- issuing, to the user, the encrypted portable status certificate;
- and
- providing access to a matching public key for the encrypted portable status certificate.
A system comprising:
- content data stored in computer readable memory and accessible to users via an I/O module;
- a received comment, submitted by a user, stored in the computer readable memory;
- a comment analysis module, executed by a computer processor, to analyze content of the received comment and to generate an a priori score assigned to the received comment;
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- a scoring module, executed by the computer processor, to analyze the status of a user and to adjust the a priori score to reflect the status of the user to produce an a posteriori score;
- in which the comments are displayed according to the a posteriori score.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.