System for Creating and Maintaining a Database of Information Utilizing User Options
First Claim
1. A method, relating to creating and maintaining, in at least one database available to a population of users, on a database server computer, information about a plurality of database of subjects, comprising the steps of:
- a) associating with each database subject of such plurality of database subjects at least one plurality of natural-language tags potentially descriptive of such each database subject according to an involved subset of such population of database users;
b) assessing at least one measure of descriptive relevance of each of such at least one plurality of natural-language tags to such each database subject according to each particular database user of such involved subset of such population of database users; and
c) associatively indexing, in such at least one database, such respective particular database users, such respective natural-language tags, such respective measures of relevance, and such respective database subjects.
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Abstract
A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality of the database information without any substantial management by the website owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form of both comments and ratings about which natural-language terms best describe a particular subject, enabling user searches of the subject database to be by way of preferred such descriptive natural-language terms, which terms are further preferred to be evaluative and approving.
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15 Claims
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1. A method, relating to creating and maintaining, in at least one database available to a population of users, on a database server computer, information about a plurality of database of subjects, comprising the steps of:
- a) associating with each database subject of such plurality of database subjects at least one plurality of natural-language tags potentially descriptive of such each database subject according to an involved subset of such population of database users;
b) assessing at least one measure of descriptive relevance of each of such at least one plurality of natural-language tags to such each database subject according to each particular database user of such involved subset of such population of database users; and
c) associatively indexing, in such at least one database, such respective particular database users, such respective natural-language tags, such respective measures of relevance, and such respective database subjects. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
- a) associating with each database subject of such plurality of database subjects at least one plurality of natural-language tags potentially descriptive of such each database subject according to an involved subset of such population of database users;
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10. A computer system, relating to creating and maintaining, in at least one database available to a population of users, on a database server computer, information about a plurality of database of subjects, comprising:
- a) at least one (associating) computer processor structured and arranged to associate with each database subject of such plurality of database subjects at least one plurality of natural-language tags potentially descriptive of such each database subject according to an involved subset of such population of database users;
b) at least one (assessing) computer processor structured and arranged to assess, from input from at least one particular database user, at least one measure of descriptive relevance of each of such at least one plurality of natural-language tags to such each database subject according to each particular database user of such involved subset of such population of database users; and
c) at least one (indexing) computer processor structured and arranged to associatively index, in such at least one database, such respective particular database users, such respective natural-language tags, such respective measures of relevance, and such respective database subjects. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
- a) at least one (associating) computer processor structured and arranged to associate with each database subject of such plurality of database subjects at least one plurality of natural-language tags potentially descriptive of such each database subject according to an involved subset of such population of database users;
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14. A method, relating to a developer of web computer systems of the type involving supporting a community of users searching for particular subject information, on a database server computer, to achieve additional revenue from customers using such computer systems, comprising the steps of:
- a) providing for such computer systems to operate essentially without customer website management;
b) providing for such computer systems to directly motivate and automatically manage the direct collection of sponsor revenue from respective entities desiring to sponsor a respective particular item of such subject information; and
c) charging such customer, for use of such computer systems, an amount comprising a portion of such sponsor revenue. - View Dependent Claims (15)
- a) providing for such computer systems to operate essentially without customer website management;
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