RATING RATERS

• US 20090144272A1
• Filed: 12/02/2008
• Published: 06/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Komaragiri, Vihari, Adarsh, Anurag, Gupta, Apurv
• Application Number:
  US12/326,722
• Publication Number:
  US 20090144272A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes identifying a plurality of ratings on a plurality of items, wherein the plurality of ratings are made by a first user, determining one or more differences between the plurality of ratings, and ratings by other users associated with the items, and generating a quality score for the first user using the one or more differences.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

performing in one or more computers operations comprising;

identifying a plurality of ratings on a plurality of items, wherein the plurality of ratings are made by a first user;

determining one or more differences between the plurality of ratings, and ratings by other users associated with the items; and

generating a quality score for the first user using the one or more differences.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of ratings are explicit ratings within a bounded range.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying the first user by receiving from the first user an ID and password.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the items comprise web-accessible documents.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising ranking one or more of the web-accessible documents using the quality score.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising receiving a search request and ranking search results responsive to the search request using quality scores for a plurality of users rating one or more of the search results.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising generating scores for authors of one or more of the web-accessible documents using the quality score.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the item comprises a user comment.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the quality score is based on an average difference between the first user'"'"'s rating and other ratings for each of a plurality of items.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the quality score is compressed by a logarithmic function.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating modified ratings for the plurality of items using the quality score.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a quality score for a second user based on the quality score of the first user and comments relating to the second user by the first user.

13. A computer-implemented system, comprising:

memory storing ratings by a plurality of network-connected users of a plurality of items;

a processor operating a user rating module to generate ratings for users based on concurrence between ratings of items in the plurality of items by a user and ratings by other users; and

a search engine programmed to rank search results using the generated ratings for users.

14. The computer-implemented system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of ratings are contained within a common bounded range.

15. The computer-implemented system of claim 13, wherein the user rating module is programmed to generate a rating for a first user by comparing a rating or ratings of an item by the first user to an average rating by users other than the first user.

16. The computer-implemented system of claim 13, wherein the search results comprise a list of user-rated documents.

17. The computer-implemented system of claim 13, wherein the ratings of items are explicit ratings.

18. The computer-implemented system of claim 13, wherein the rating module further generates rating information for authors of the items using the generated ratings for users.

19. A computer-implemented system, comprising:

memory storing ratings by a plurality of network-connected users of a plurality of items;

means for generating rater quality scores for registered users who have rated one or more of the plurality of items; and

a search engine programmed to rank search results using the rater quality scores.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the items comprise web-accessible documents having discrete, bound rankings from the network-connected users.