Reputation System in a Default Network
AssigneeFoxwordy, Inc.
InventorsMonica Zent, Robert Schmitt
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Abstract
A system and a method are disclosed for computing a reputation score for user profiles of a social network according to actions taken by user profiles of the social network. The reputation score may be based on interactions of a user profile with a content item or based on interactions of user profiles with other user profiles. Actions may be weighted differently in calculating a reputation score as a sum of products of action counts and actions weights. Reputation scores calculated may be used to rank user profiles and to determine reputation levels for user profiles based on exceeding a threshold in reputation score or reputation ranking.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for computing a reputation score for a user profile within the default network computing system, the method comprising:
- receiving a request to assess a user profile of the default network computing system;
- retrieving, from the default network computing system, a plurality of user action counts, each user action count indicating how many times a particular action relating to the assessed user profile has occurred within the default network computing system;
- multiplying, through the default network computing system, each of the plurality of user action counts by one of a plurality of weighting factors to determine a plurality of products, each weighting factor corresponding to a particular user action count;
- summing, through the default network computing system, each product in the determined plurality of products to calculate a weighted sum;
- storing, in the default network computing system, the calculated weighted sum as a user reputation score for the assessed user profile;
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- providing for display, to a user profile of the default network computing system, the stored user reputation score for the assessed user profile.
The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the content item is selected from a group consisting of an excerpted content item, a document, a clause, a file, a forum post, a discussion, a topic, a resource, a question, a request, a referral, a comment, an answer, and any combination thereof.
A computer-implemented method for computing a reputation score for a user profile of a default network computing system, the method comprising:
- receiving a request to assess a user profile;
- retrieving a plurality of user action counts, each user action count indicating how many times a particular action relating to the assessed user profile has occurred;
- multiplying each of the plurality of user action counts by one of a plurality of weighting factors to determine a plurality of products;
- summing each product in the determined plurality of products to calculate a weighted sum;
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- storing the calculated weighted sum as a user reputation score for the assessed user profile.
A computer-readable medium configured to store instructions, the instructions when executed by a processor cause the processor to:
- receive a request to assess a user profile;
- retrieve a plurality of user action counts, each user action count indicating how many times a particular action relating to the assessed user profile has occurred;
- multiply each of the plurality of user action counts by one of a plurality of weighting factors to determine a plurality of products;
- sum each product in the determined plurality of products to calculate a weighted sum;
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- store the calculated weighted sum as a user reputation score for the assessed user profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.