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US 9,426,160 B2Granted
Delivering author specific content
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJonathan F. Brunn, Jessica W. Forrester, Stephen C. Hess, Jeffrey R. Hoy
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Abstract
Delivering author specific content includes identifying author specific content with tags inserted into its metadata across multiple online resources and delivering updates about the author specific content to a user specified activity stream.
Claims20
A method of generating a database of verified authors and associated content, the method comprising:
- receiving input from a user identifying content on webpage;
- identifying purported author of that content;
- if according to a trust policy, the site is trusted, then associating the identity of the purported author with the user in a database;
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- if, according to a trust policy, the site is not trusted, then using a verification engine to verify the identity of the author of the content, and if the verification engine verifies the identity of the author, then associating the verified author with the user in the database to produce a list of authors whose content has been selected by the user.
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A method of identifying authorship of content, the method comprising:
- receiving input from a user associated with a content;
- determining the purported author of the content;
- verifying the purported author of the content;
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- informing the user of the verified author of the content.
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A method of identifying content purportedly authored by an identified author, the method comprising:
- engaging a crawler to search content for content apparently authored with an identified author, including searching non-public content using access rights provided by a user;
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- for found content, if it the source is trusted according to a trust policy, index the found content into a database by the identified author;
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- for found content, if the source is not trusted according to a trust policy, verify the identity of the purported author of the found content and if the author of the found content is verified, index the found content in a database by the identified author;
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- referencing an indexed non-public content associated with the identified author to users with access rights to the associated non-public content.
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