Professional collaboration networks
OwnerArjuna Indraeswaran Rajasinghaminventor
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Abstract
A business system generating and utilizing trust linkages and professional linkages between members for the synthesis of economic value in business entities.
Claims23
A Webserver and client interface implemented method for measuring reliability of a reputation of a target member by a user member, in an information network with a plurality of members with a professional collaboration network comprising at least one Trust Layer (TL) and at least one Professional Layer (PL) using a server device and method comprising:
- storing one or more references for the target member, the references having being created by referees of the target member;
- in response to a search by a user member for which the target member is a search result, revealing a profile of the target member, the profile including the references for the target member, information regarding referees' link relationship with the target member in the Professional Layer, and displaying information regarding a searcher's link relationship with the referees in the Trust Layer;
A method for business decision support using a web server and client user interfaces for performance evaluation of human resources comprising professional ability and trust, utilizing an information network with a plurality of members wherein said members comprise a First Member and a Second Member—with a Professional Collaboration Network with at least one Professional layer and at least one Trust Layer, comprising:
- obtaining member information;
- establishing a Professional layer based on the member information comprising disclosed professional ability and pairwise professional relationships with other members of the Professional Layer;
- establishing a Trust Layer by utilizing a linkage search engine to identify linkages from member information comprising directed pairwise trust relationships with other members of the Trust layer from disclosed interactions between pairs of members resulting from at least one of:
- prior or current personal contact;
- and history of each of said directed pairwise trust relationships in contributing to a successful assessment of a Second Member by a First Member;
- iteratively using such linkages between members, to create a chain of directed trust linkages that generate at least one connected network of members as a subset of the Trust Layer with each of said connected networks comprising members connected to every other member in said connected network through a series of pairwise connections between members, wherein each of said connected networks comprise one or more connection threads each of which is a unique path along said pair-wise linkages between any two of said members with any one pair-wise linkage traversed only once;
- identifying a Trust Reference for members of said Trust layer utilizing the chain of directed trust relationships along one or more connection threads;
- accessing from the web server a Professional Reputation for at least one member, from the at least one Professional Layer with members wherein the professional ability of said members are assessed using third party knowledge of said members;
- accessing from the web server a Trust Reference for at least one member from the at least one Trust Layer using the trust relationships along one or more connection threads;
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- evaluating for a First Member, the Professional Reputation and Trust Reference of a Second Member,
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