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US 8,015,484 B2Granted
Reputation system for web pages and online entities
OwnerAlejandro Backerinventor
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Abstract
A method for providing a measure of trust for each participant in a network is disclosed, together with a method to calculate it automatically. In particular, a method for rating online entities, such as online identities is provided, which also takes into account the reputation of the raters.
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A method for rating an online entity in accordance with a tag, the method comprising:
- arranging the online entity to be rated by a plurality of raters in accordance with the tag;
- assigning a rater's score to the raters rating the online entity with the tag, to establish reputation of the raters;
- assigning a tag score to the online entity, the tag score depending on
- i) ratings provided by the raters to the online entity in accordance with the tag, and
- ii) the reputation of all raters rating the online entity with the tag,
- wherein assigning a tag score to the online entity is established through a raters/entities tag matrix associated with a graph connecting the raters and the online entity,
- wherein assigning a rater's score to a rater Y rating the entity with a tag T is computed as a function of
- i) ratings given to the rater Y,
- ii) reputation of raters of the rater Y for each tag matrix of many tag matrices, and
- iii) relationship between the many tag matrices and tag matrix T.
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