NETWORK-COMMUNITY RESEARCH SERVICE
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1. An educational-community research service, comprising:
- an enrollment module to maintain a roster of teachers and students belonging to an online educational community; and
a research module to receive a research query from a requesting student belonging to the online educational community, the research module configured to answer the research query with a ranked list of research results at least partially prioritized based on educational-community activities of non-requesting students or non-requesting teachers belonging to the online educational community.
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Abstract
A network-community research service includes a research module to receive a research query from a requesting member belonging to a network community. The research module is configured to answer the research query with a ranked list of research results at least partially prioritized based on network-community activities of non-requesting members.
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20 Claims
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1. An educational-community research service, comprising:
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an enrollment module to maintain a roster of teachers and students belonging to an online educational community; and a research module to receive a research query from a requesting student belonging to the online educational community, the research module configured to answer the research query with a ranked list of research results at least partially prioritized based on educational-community activities of non-requesting students or non-requesting teachers belonging to the online educational community. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A network-community research service, comprising:
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an enrollment module to maintain a roster of members belonging to a network community; an interrelation module to maintain a map defining network-community associations between two or more network-community members belonging to the network community; and a research module to receive a research query from a requesting member belonging to the network community, the research module configured to answer the research query with a ranked list of research results at least partially prioritized based on network-community activities of non-requesting members. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of facilitating online research, comprising:
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receiving a research query from a requester via a computer network; determining if the requester belongs to a network community; if the requester belongs to the network community, comparing the research query to network locations blessed by non-requesting members of the network community; if a network location blessed by a non-requesting member of the network community includes a reference to the research query, adding that network location to a ranked list of research results with an elevated prioritization; and presenting the ranked list of research results to the requester via the network.
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