Method and process for identifying trusted information of interest

• US 20110047213A1
• Filed: 08/20/2009
• Published: 02/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alan David Manuel
• Original Assignee: Alan David Manuel
• Inventors: Manuel, Alan David
• Application Number:
  US12/583,394
• Publication Number:
  US 20110047213A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce

Abstract

A method and process for identifying trusted information of interest consisting of: (1) optionally, accepting as input from a user (a “requester”) a demand for recommendations; (2) determining a set of users (“participants”) eligible to provide, receive, and evaluate recommendations; (3) accepting as input from participants recommendations and indications of concurrence of opinion on recommendations; (4) determining the level of trust that a user has in participants, their recommendations, and their indications of concurrence of opinion on recommendations; (5) presenting recommendations and indications of concurrence of opinion on recommendations to a user contemporaneously with a predicted level of trust in recommendations; and (6) repeating steps 1-5.

Claims

1. A method and process for identifying trusted information of interest, comprising:

(a) a means for managing eligibility of a user to recommend trusted information of interest, and

(b) a means for a user to recommend trusted information of interest, and

(c) a means to determine trust in recommended information of interest, whereby said method and process provides relevant, timely, comprehensive recommendations.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising a means to present predicted level of trust in recommended information of interest to a user.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising a means to present predicted level of trust in recommended information of interest to a user contemporaneously with a measure of trust among users.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said means for managing eligibility of a user to recommend trusted information of interest comprises a means of determining the extent of a user'"'"'s relationships with other users.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said means for managing eligibility of a user to recommend trusted information of interest comprises at least one user-specific parameter.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said means for a user to recommend trusted information of interest comprises a means for a user to indicate concurrence of opinion on recommended information of interest.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said means to determine trust in recommended information of interest comprises a means for a user to set explicitly a measure of the ability of a first user to provide trusted information of interest to a second user.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said means to determine trust in recommended information of interest comprises at least one user-specific parameter.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said means to determine trust in recommended information of interest comprises a collaborative filter.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein said means to determine trust in recommended information of interest comprises a means of determining the extent of a user'"'"'s relationships with other users

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the means to determine trust in recommended information of interest operates independently of degrees of separation of users in a social network.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein said means to determine trust in recommended information of interest comprises a means of determining levels of trust among users and at least one indication of concurrence of opinion on recommended information of interest.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising a means to associate recommended information of interest with groupings of recommended information of interest.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising a means for a user to express demand for recommendations of trusted information of interest.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising a means for a user recipient of recommended information of interest to communicate with a user source of recommended information of interest.

16. A computer-implemented method for operating a machine to identify trusted information of interest, the method comprising the steps, performed by the machine, of

(a) managing eligibility of a user to recommend trusted information of interest, and

(b) enabling a user to recommend trusted information of interest, and

(c) determining trust in recommended information of interest.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of communicating trust in recommended information of interest to a user.