Capturing energy consumption for validating a product review

A computer program product for generating a review of a product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions stored in the computer readable storage medium, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions are executed by a central processing unit (CPU) of a first computer system to cause the first computer system to perform a method comprising the steps of:

• the first computer system receiving an amount of usage of the product by a user, the amount of usage being received from an energy monitoring device that is a nonintrusive load monitoring device that monitors and tracks the amount of usage of the product by the user;
• the first computer system determining that the amount of usage of the product by the user exceeds a predetermined threshold amount;
• based on the amount of usage of the product by the user exceeding the predetermined threshold amount, the first computer system sending a message to a second computer system utilized by the user, the message requesting the user to author content that comments on the product;
• the first computer system receiving the content from the second computer system, the content having been authored by the user in response to the step of sending the message;
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• the first computer system generating a review of the product by combining the content with an indication of the amount of usage of the product by the user.

A first computer system comprising:

• a central processing unit (CPU);
• a memory coupled to the CPU;
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• a computer readable storage medium coupled to the CPU, the computer readable storage medium containing instructions that are executed by the CPU via the memory to implement a method of generating a review of a product, the method comprising the steps of:
• the first computer system receiving an amount of usage of the product by a user, the amount of usage being received from an energy monitoring device that is a nonintrusive load monitoring device that monitors and tracks the amount of usage of the product by the user;
• the first computer system determining that the amount of usage of the product by the user exceeds a predetermined threshold amount;
• based on the amount of usage of the product by the user exceeding the predetermined threshold amount, the first computer system sending a message to a second computer system utilized by the user, the message requesting the user to author content that comments on the product;
• the first computer system receiving the content from the second computer system, the content having been authored by the user in response to the step of sending the message;
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• the first computer system generating a review of the product by combining the content with an indication of the amount of usage of the product by the user.