SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALCULATING AND PRESENTING A USER-CONTRIBUTOR RATING INDEX
First Claim
1. A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause a computing device to perform a method, comprising:
- accessing a plurality of items submitted by a user from a corpus of user-submitted items, each item submitted by a respective user and having a respective rating;
identifying a highest-rated subset of the plurality of items submitted by the user;
calculating a quality rating for the user, wherein the quality rating is a function of the ratings of the items in the highest-rated subset; and
providing an interface to display content submitted by the user, wherein the interface includes an indication of the quality rating of the user.
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Abstract
The quality and/or nature of the contributions submitted by a particular user-contributor may be summarized by a quality rating, a prime slice count, and/or a prime slice ratio. The quality rating may be derived from a subset of top-rated submissions by the user. The prime slice count may indicate how many of the user'"'"'s submissions are within a top-rated, prime slice of the website corpus. The prime slice ratio may represent a ratio of the prime slice count to the total number of submissions from the user-contributor. Indications of the quality rating, prime slice count, and/or prime slice ration may be displayed in connection with content submitted by the user and/or a user profile. The indicators may include graphics, text, or the like. This invention allows for recognition of a valuable contributor without penalizing the contributor for submissions that do not reflect the contributor'"'"'s very best work.
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30 Claims
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1. A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause a computing device to perform a method, comprising:
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accessing a plurality of items submitted by a user from a corpus of user-submitted items, each item submitted by a respective user and having a respective rating; identifying a highest-rated subset of the plurality of items submitted by the user; calculating a quality rating for the user, wherein the quality rating is a function of the ratings of the items in the highest-rated subset; and providing an interface to display content submitted by the user, wherein the interface includes an indication of the quality rating of the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for providing user-contributor rating index information, comprising:
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a computing device comprising a processor; a content management module operable on the processor and comprising a plurality of items submitted by a user, each item having a respective rating; and a user management module operable on the processor and communicatively coupled to the content management module, the user management module configured to identify a highest-rated subset of the plurality of items authored by the user and to calculate a quality rating of the user as a function of the ratings in the highest-rated subset, wherein the content management is configured to provide an interface to display content submitted by the user, the interface including an indication of the quality rating of the user. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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21. The system of claim 21, wherein the graphic comprises a pie chart depicting the total number of submissions of the user, and wherein a slice of the pie chart depicts the prime slice count of the user.
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29. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
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accessing a plurality of items submitted by a user from within a corpus of content items stored on a computer-readable storage medium, wherein each item in the corpus is associated with a respective submitter and has a respective rating; identifying a highest-rated subset of the plurality of items submitted by the user; calculating a quality rating for the user, wherein the quality rating is a function of the ratings of the items in the highest-rated subset; identifying a highest-rated prime slice of the corpus; calculating a prime slice count of content items submitted by the user that are within the identified prime slice; and providing an interface to display an indication of the quality rating and the prime slice count of the user. - View Dependent Claims (30)
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