TRUSTED ACQUAINTANCES NETWORK SYSTEM

• US 20090210244A1
• Filed: 02/05/2007
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: TN20, Incorporated (Salesforce.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Koister, Jari, McCleary, Thomas B., Micucci, Michael
• Application Number:
  US12/278,277
• Publication Number:
  US 20090210244A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/319
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A trusted acquaintances network system [700] includes: providing a network system [104] with a computer system [105 ]; inputting information about a plurality of users to the network with each of the plurality of users having a different level of trustworthiness and a different rating of further information; and displaying trustworthy data from the network based on the different levels of trustworthiness and the different ratings of the further information.

Claims

1. A trusted acquaintances network system [700] comprising:

providing a network system [104] with a computer system [105];

inputting information about a plurality of users to the network system [104] with each of the plurality of users having a different level of trustworthiness and a different rating of further information; and

displaying trustworthy information from the network system [104] based on the different levels of trustworthiness and the different ratings of further information.

2. The system [700] as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

providing the network system [104] includes providing information on a plurality of topics; and

inputting the information includes using a topic context to select from the plurality of topics to provide the trustworthy information.

3. The system [700] as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

providing the network system [104] includes providing information on a user'"'"'s social network [300]; and

inputting the information includes using further information from users in the user'"'"'s social network [300] to provide the trustworthy information.

4. The system [700] as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

providing the network system [104] includes providing levels of trustworthiness of users in the network system [104] and recommendations of the users regarding the further information; and

inputting the information further comprises using the further information from users in selected levels of trustworthiness to provide the trustworthy information.

5. The system [700] as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

providing the network system [104] includes providing levels of trustworthiness of users in the network system [104] and recommendations of users on a plurality of topics; and

inputting the information includes selecting a topic from the plurality of topics and using recommendations of users in selected levels of trustworthiness to provide the trustworthy information.

6. A trusted acquaintances network system [700] comprising:

providing a network system [104] with a computer system [105];

inputting information about a plurality of users to the network system [104] with each of the plurality of users a having different level of trustworthiness and a different rating of data; and

displaying trustworthy data from the network system [104] resulting from calculation of the different levels of trustworthiness of each of the plurality of users and the different ratings of data.

7. The system [700] as claimed in claim 6 wherein:

providing the network system [104] includes providing information having a semantic notation, a rating, and a recommendation from users on a plurality of topics; and

inputting the information includes using a topic context to select from the plurality of topics to provide the trustworthy data.

8. The system [700] as claimed in claim 6 wherein:

providing the network system [104] includes providing information of different degrees of relationship [304] [306] [308] [310] of users on a user'"'"'s social network [300]; and

inputting the information includes using data from users in the user'"'"'s social network [300] within selected degrees to provide the trustworthy data.

9. The system [700] as claimed in claim 6 wherein:

providing the network system [104] includes providing levels of trustworthiness of users in the network system [104] and ratings of the users regarding the data; and

inputting the information further comprises using the data from users in selected levels of trustworthiness and the ratings to provide the trustworthy data.

10. The system [700] as claimed in claim 6 wherein:

providing the network system [104] includes providing levels of user reputation in the network system [104] and recommendations of users on a plurality of topics; and

inputting the information includes selecting a topic from the plurality of topics and using reputations of the user and recommendations of the user in selected topics to provide the trustworthy data.

11. A trusted acquaintances network system [100] comprising:

a network system [104]; and

a computer system [105] connected to the network system [104] for;

inputting information about a plurality of users to the network system [104] with each of the plurality of users having a different level of trustworthiness and a different rating of further information, and

displaying trustworthy information from the network system [100] [600] [700] based on the different levels of trustworthiness and the different ratings of further information.

12. The system [100] as claimed in claim 11 wherein:

the network system [104] is for providing information on a plurality of topics; and

the computer system [105] is for using a topic context to select from the plurality of topics to provide the trustworthy information.

13. The system [100] as claimed in claim 11 wherein:

the network system [104] is for providing information on a user'"'"'s social network [300]; and

the computer system [105] is for using further information from users in the user'"'"'s social network [300] to provide the trustworthy information.

14. The system [100] as claimed in claim 11 wherein:

the network system [104] is for providing levels of trustworthiness of users in the network system [104] and recommendations of the users regarding the further information; and

the computer system [105] is for using the further information from users in selected levels of trustworthiness to provide the trustworthy information.

15. The system as claimed in claim 11 wherein:

the network system [104] is for providing levels of trustworthiness of users in the network system [104] and recommendations of users on a plurality of topics; and

the computer system [105] is for selecting a topic from the plurality of topics and using recommendations of users in selected levels of trustworthiness to provide the trustworthy information.

16. A trusted acquaintances network system [100] comprising:

providing a network system [104]; and

a computer system [105] connected to the network system [104] for;

inputting information about a plurality of users to the network system [104] with each of the plurality of users having a different level of trustworthiness and a different rating of data; and

displaying trustworthy data from the network system [104] resulting from calculations of the different levels of trustworthiness of each of the plurality of users and the different ratings of data.

17. The system [100] as claimed in claim 16 wherein:

the network system [104] is for providing information having a semantic notation, a rating, and a recommendation from users on a plurality of topics; and

the computer system [105] is for using a topic context to select from the plurality of topics to provide the trustworthy data.

18. The system [100] as claimed in claim 16 wherein:

the network system [104] is for providing information of different degrees of relationship of users on a user'"'"'s social network [300]; and

the computer system [105] is for using data from users in the user'"'"'s social network [300] within selected degrees to provide the trustworthy data.

19. The system [100] as claimed in claim 16 wherein:

the network system [104] is for providing information of levels of trustworthiness of users in the network system [104] and ratings of the users regarding the data; and

the computer system [105] is for using the data from users in selected levels of trustworthiness and the ratings to provide the trustworthy data.

20. The system [100] as claimed in claim 16 wherein:

the network system [104] is for providing information of levels of user reputation in the network system [104] and recommendations of users on a plurality of topics; and

the computer system [105] is for selecting a topic from the plurality of topics and using reputations of the user and recommendations of the user in selected topics to provide the trustworthy data.