CREATING AN INCENTIVE TO AUTHOR USEFUL ITEM REVIEWS

• US 20100217654A1
• Filed: 03/01/2010
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Jon Phillips, Nicolas Pottier, Thomas L. Keller
• Inventors: Keller, Thomas L., Phillips, Jon, Pottier, Nicolas
• Granted Patent: US 8,140,380 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.200
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0203 Market surveys; Market polls
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0218 based on score

Abstract

A facility for rewarding the provision of useful item reviews is described. The facility receives a plurality of item reviews, each from a source. The facility publishes each of the plurality of received item reviews, and assesses the usefulness of the published item reviews. Based upon this assessment of usefulness, the facility selects one or more of the published item reviews, and provides rewards to the sources of these selected item reviews.

Claims

1-31. -31. (canceled)

32. A method in a computing system for rewarding the provision of useful item reviews, comprising:

receiving, at the computing system, a plurality of item reviews from one or more sources;

publishing, using the computing system, the plurality of item reviews;

assessing, using the computing system, the usefulness of the published item reviews;

based upon the assessment of usefulness, selecting, using the computing system, one or more of the sources of the published item reviews; and

providing one or more rewards to the selected sources of the published item reviews.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the one or more sources of item reviews are authors.

34. The method of claim 32, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of a laudatory message about a corresponding source.

35. The method of claim 32, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of a laudatory message displayed in association with a ranked listing of the selected sources of the published item reviews, wherein a ranking indicates a level of usefulness of reviews of the corresponding source.

36. The method of claim 32, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of a laudatory message displayed in association with a ranked listing of the selected sources of the published item reviews, including corresponding selectable links, that when selected by a user, provide additional information regarding the corresponding selected sources.

37. The method of claim 32, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of information about a corresponding selected source provided by the corresponding selected source displayed in association with a reviewer ranking of the corresponding selected source.

38. The method of claim 32, the method further comprising applying a formula to obtain a score for at least one source at least partly based upon an indication that considers, for a review for an item submitted by the at least one source, whether the review submitted by the at least one source is a first review submitted for the item.

39. The method of claim 32, the method further comprising applying a formula to obtain a score for at least one source at least partly based upon an indication that considers, for a review for a first item submitted by the at least one source, how many consumers to whom the review for the first item was displayed subsequently ordered the first item.

40. The method of claim 32, the method further comprising providing for display identities of the selected sources of the published item reviews.

41. An apparatus, comprising:

a computing device;

a program stored in computer readable memory that when executed by the computing device is configured to perform operations comprising;

receiving a plurality of item reviews from one or more sources;

publishing the plurality of item reviews;

assessing the usefulness of the published item reviews;

based upon the assessment of usefulness, selecting one or more of the sources of the published item reviews; and

providing one or more rewards to the selected sources of the published item reviews.

42. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein the one or more sources of item reviews are authors.

43. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of a laudatory message about a corresponding source.

44. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of a laudatory message displayed in association with a ranked listing of the selected sources of the published item reviews, wherein a ranking indicates a level of usefulness of reviews of the corresponding source.

45. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of a laudatory message displayed in association with a ranked listing of the selected sources of the published item reviews, including corresponding selectable links, that when selected by a user, provide additional information regarding the corresponding selected sources.

46. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of information about a corresponding selected source provided by the corresponding selected source displayed in association with a reviewer ranking of the corresponding selected source.

47. The apparatus of claim 41, the operations further comprising applying a formula to obtain a score for at least one source at least partly based upon an indication that considers, for a review for an item submitted by the at least one source, whether the review submitted by the at least one source is a first review submitted for the item.

48. The apparatus of claim 41, the operations further comprising applying a formula to obtain a score for at least one source at least partly based upon an indication that considers, for a review for a first item submitted by the at least one source, how many consumers to whom the review for the first item was displayed subsequently ordered the first item.

49. The apparatus of claim 41, the operations further comprising providing for display identities of the selected sources of the published item reviews.

50. A program stored in computer readable memory that when executed by the computing device is configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving a plurality of item reviews from one or more sources;

publishing the plurality of item reviews;

assessing the usefulness of the published item reviews;

based upon the assessment of usefulness, selecting one or more of the sources of the published item reviews; and

providing one or more rewards to the selected sources of the published item reviews.

51. The computer readable memory of claim 50, wherein the one or more sources of item reviews are authors.

52. The computer readable memory of claim 50, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of a laudatory message about a corresponding source.

53. The computer readable memory of claim 50, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of a laudatory message displayed in association with a ranked listing of the selected sources of the published item reviews, wherein a ranking indicates a level of usefulness of reviews of the corresponding source.

54. The computer readable memory of claim 50, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of a laudatory message displayed in association with a ranked listing of the selected sources of the published item reviews, including corresponding selectable links, that when selected by a user, provide additional information regarding the corresponding selected sources.

55. The computer readable memory of claim 50, wherein at least one of the rewards includes a publication of information about a corresponding selected source provided by the corresponding selected source displayed in association with a reviewer ranking of the corresponding selected source.

56. The computer readable memory of claim 50, the operations further comprising applying a formula to obtain a score for at least one source at least partly based upon an indication that considers, for a review for an item submitted by the at least one source, whether the review submitted by the at least one source is a first review submitted for the item.

57. The computer readable memory of claim 50, the operations further comprising applying a formula to obtain a score for at least one source at least partly based upon an indication that considers, for a review for a first item submitted by the at least one source, how many consumers to whom the review for the first item was displayed subsequently ordered the first item.

58. The computer readable memory of claim 50, the operations further comprising providing for display identities of the selected sources of the published item reviews.