Method and system for distributing a work process over an information network
AssigneeNet Shepherd, Inc.
InventorsRonald W. Warris, William David Paterson, John Wester
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Abstract
A system and method for distributing a work process on an information network comprises a first subsystem to contract members of a virtual community having access to the information network to perform tasks associated with the work process, the members having an interest in the work process. A second subsystem dispatches tasks to the members requiring the members to evaluate information accessible on the information network and receive the evaluations of the members. A third subsystem processes the evaluations to perform the work process.
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A method of distributing a work process on an information network comprising the steps of:
- contracting members of a virtual community having access to said information network to perform tasks associated with said work process, said members having an interest in said work processes;
- dispatching tasks to said members requiring said members to evaluate information accessible on said information network;
- receiving the evaluations of said members;
- processing the evaluations to perform said work process;
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- monitoring the evaluations received from said members to determine the quality thereof, wherein during said monitoring step, the rate at which members complete said evaluations is measured and compared with a standard, the rate at which evaluations are received from members also be examined to detect steady-state and lengthy non-stop evaluations.
A method of distributing a work process on an information network comprising the steps of:
- contracting members of a virtual community having access to said information network to perform tasks associated with said work process, said members having an interest in said work process;
- dispatching tasks to said members requiring said members to evaluate information accessible on said information network based on predetermined criteria;
- receiving the evaluations of said members;
- monitoring the evaluations received from said members to determine bias in said evaluations;
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- processing the evaluations to perform said work process.
A system for distributing a work process on an information network comprising:
- a first subsystem to contrast members of a virtual community having access to said information network to perform tasks associated with said work process, said members having an interest in said work process;
- a second subsystem to dispatch tasks to said members requiring said members to evaluate information accessible on said information network based on predetermined criteria and receive the evaluations of said members;
- a quality management subsystem executing a bias determination procedure to monitor the evaluations of said members and detect bias in said evaluations;
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- a third subsystem to process the evaluations to perform said work process.
A system for distributing a work process on an information network comprising:
- a first subsystem to contract members of a virtual community having access to said information network to perform tasks associated with said work process, said members having an interest in said work process;
- a second subsystem to dispatch tasks to said members requiring said members to evaluate information accessible on said information network based on predetermined criteria and receive the evaluations of said members;
- a third subsystem to process the evaluations to perform said work process;
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- a quality management subsystem monitoring the evaluations of said members to determine the quality thereof, said quality management subsystem including a plurality of quality procedures, each of said quality procedures monitoring evaluations of members based on differing criteria to detect a specific quality issue, said quality procedures include an anti-spamming procedure comparing the rate at which members complete said evaluations with a standard to detect steady-state and lengthy non-stop evaluations.
A method for assigning a generic rating to a directory containing a plurality of documents comprising the steps of:
- evaluating documents in said directory one at a time and assigning rating values to said documents;
- as said rating values are assigned to said documents, comparing said rating values;
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- if said rating values are the same and after a predetermined percentage of the total number of documents in said directory have been evaluated, assigning a generic rating value to said directory that is the same as said rating values and ending the document evaluation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.