Method and system for posting ideas
First Claim
1. A method for posting ideas from clients of tenants to a website, the method comprising:
- sending a web page to a client, the web page including at least one of an option for posting an idea, an option for viewing an idea already posted, an option for casting a vote for an idea posted;
receiving at least one of a new idea for posting, a comment on a previously posted idea and a vote for a previously posted idea; and
determining a Total Qualitative Management Criterion (TQMC) for each posted idea for each tenant of the website, by applying an increasing function of time to newer votes to enable relative weightings of older votes to diminish over time without requiring computing a decaying time function to determine weightings for each vote.
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Abstract
A site is maintained that allows consumers to suggest, comment on and/or vote on ideas about a product or service. Some site embodiments can enable sponsoring organizations (customers) to maintain their own sites for displaying articles and allowing multiple viewers to vote on these articles. Site information for multiple tenants may be maintained in a common multi-tenant system. Votes may indicate a variety of different types of criteria, such as the importance, correctness, and/or user preference for the articles or other Qualitative Management Criteria (QMC) for determining the merit of an idea or an article. The votes may be tallied into an overall Total Qualitative Management Criterion (TQMC) for the idea or article. Newer votes may be adjusted according to an increasing function of time to enable the relative weightings of the older votes to diminish over time without having to compute a decaying time function to determine weightings for each vote.
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36 Claims
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1. A method for posting ideas from clients of tenants to a website, the method comprising:
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sending a web page to a client, the web page including at least one of an option for posting an idea, an option for viewing an idea already posted, an option for casting a vote for an idea posted; receiving at least one of a new idea for posting, a comment on a previously posted idea and a vote for a previously posted idea; and determining a Total Qualitative Management Criterion (TQMC) for each posted idea for each tenant of the website, by applying an increasing function of time to newer votes to enable relative weightings of older votes to diminish over time without requiring computing a decaying time function to determine weightings for each vote. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 25)
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18. A method for posting ideas in a multi-tenant database system, the method comprising:
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receiving a web page at a client, the web page including at least one of an option for posting an idea, an option for viewing an idea already posted, an option for casting a vote for an idea posted; sending at least one of a new idea for posting, a comment on a previously posted idea and a vote for a previously posted idea; and receiving with the webpage an initial set of Total Qualitative Management Criterion (TQMC) having a TQMC for each posted idea on the webpage for a tenant of the website, at a later time receiving an updated webpage, the updated webpage having at least one updated TQMC, the updated TQMC being a value that is different from an initial value for one of the initial set of TQMC at a result of applying an increasing function of time to a new vote to enable relative weightings of older votes to diminish over time without requiring computing a decaying time function to determine weightings for each vote; and displaying the webpage on a monitor. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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20. A machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for implementing a method for providing an interface for object relationships, the method comprising:
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sending a web page to a client, the web page including at least one of an option for posting an idea, an option for viewing an idea already posted, an option for casting a vote for an idea posted; receiving at least one of a new idea for posting, a comment on a previously posted idea and a vote for a previously posted idea; and determining a Total Qualitative Management Criterion (TQMC) for each posted idea for each tenant of the website, by applying an increasing function of time to newer votes to enable relative weightings of older votes to diminish over time without requiring computing a decaying time function to determine weightings for each vote. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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