SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING CROWDSOURCED CREDENTIALING AND ACCREDITATION
First Claim
1. A system for facilitating crowdsourced credentialing over a network, said system comprising:
- a federated profile manager to maintain profile related information for a plurality of professionals obtained from a plurality of federated sources distributed across said crowdsourced network, wherein said profile related information for each of said plurality of professionals is located at one or more of said federated sources;
a profile segmenting engine to segment and classify said profile related information for each of said professionals into a plurality of federated profiles;
a certification engine to allow a plurality of crowdsourced respondents to respond to said federated profiles associated with each of said plurality of professionals and credential said plurality of professionals, wherein said credentialing of each of said federated profiles associated with a professional of said plurality of professionals contribute to credentialing of an entire common profile of said professional upon collation of said credentialed federated profiles, and wherein said federated profiles associated with said professional are credentialed from a plurality of respondents; and
an auto-validation engine coupled to said certification engine and communicatively linked to a social networking platform hosting information related to said professionals, said auto-validation engine to certify said credentialing of said federated profiles, already certified by said certification engine, by using said information about said professionals from said social networking platform,wherein one or more of said federated profiles are accessible by medical entities for determining a level of trust about said plurality of professionals based on a cumulative effect of credentialing and said auto validation of said profile related information.
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Abstract
A system and method for facilitating crowdsourced credentialing over a network includes a federated profile manager to maintain profile related information for a plurality of professionals obtained from a plurality of federated sources distributed across the crowdsourced network. The system further includes a profile segmenting engine to segment and classify the profile-related information for each of the professionals into a plurality of federated profiles. The system further includes a certification engine to allow a plurality of crowdsourced respondents to respond to the federated profiles associated with each of the plurality of professionals and credential them.
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18 Claims
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1. A system for facilitating crowdsourced credentialing over a network, said system comprising:
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a federated profile manager to maintain profile related information for a plurality of professionals obtained from a plurality of federated sources distributed across said crowdsourced network, wherein said profile related information for each of said plurality of professionals is located at one or more of said federated sources; a profile segmenting engine to segment and classify said profile related information for each of said professionals into a plurality of federated profiles; a certification engine to allow a plurality of crowdsourced respondents to respond to said federated profiles associated with each of said plurality of professionals and credential said plurality of professionals, wherein said credentialing of each of said federated profiles associated with a professional of said plurality of professionals contribute to credentialing of an entire common profile of said professional upon collation of said credentialed federated profiles, and wherein said federated profiles associated with said professional are credentialed from a plurality of respondents; and an auto-validation engine coupled to said certification engine and communicatively linked to a social networking platform hosting information related to said professionals, said auto-validation engine to certify said credentialing of said federated profiles, already certified by said certification engine, by using said information about said professionals from said social networking platform, wherein one or more of said federated profiles are accessible by medical entities for determining a level of trust about said plurality of professionals based on a cumulative effect of credentialing and said auto validation of said profile related information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for facilitating crowdsourced and multi-level credentialing over a network for use of multi-level credentialed information by a plurality of medical entities through said crowdsourced network, said method comprising:
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receiving profile information from a plurality of crowdsourced professionals; segmenting said profile information associated with each of said plurality of professionals into a plurality of federated profiles; and receiving responses from a plurality of crowdsourced respondents for each of said federated profiles, said response defining certification of information contained in each of said federated profiles, wherein said certification associated with each of said federated profiles concludes in either verified as correct or verified as wrong, wherein said crowdsourced credentialing facilitates said certification of each of said federated profiles from one or more respondents so as to cumulate an effect of said certification at multiple levels defined by each respondent, and wherein said cumulated effect of said certification allows to associate a cumulative segment rating to each of said federated profiles associated with each of said professionals, wherein said response from each of said professionals associated with each of said federated profiles is associated with an attribute defining said source and said respondent for each of said federated profile during credentialing, and a date of certification; auto-validating said responses to further certify said information provided by said respondents for each of said federated profiles through one or more sources of a social networking platform that associates said professionals through a social networking profile; either refining said segment rating for each of said federated profiles or associating a separate rating based on a mapping of each of said federated profiles with said social networking profiles; and facilitating access by said plurality of medical entities to retrieve said responses identifying credentialing and certification and said refined or associated rating through a web-based portal operating in said crowdsourced network. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. A program storage device readable by computer, and comprising a program of instructions executable by said computer to perform a method for facilitating crowdsourced and multi-level credentialing over a network for use of multi-level credentialed information by a plurality of medical entities through said crowdsourced network, said method comprising:
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receiving profile information from a plurality of crowdsourced professionals; segmenting said profile information associated with each of said plurality of professionals into a plurality of federated profiles; and receiving responses from a plurality of crowdsourced respondents for each of said federated profiles, said response defining certification of information contained in each of said federated profiles, wherein said certification associated with each of said federated profiles concludes in either verified as correct or verified as wrong, wherein said crowdsourced credentialing facilitates said certification of each of said federated profiles from one or more respondents so as to cumulate an effect of said certification at multiple levels defined by each respondent, wherein said cumulated effect of said certification allows to associate a cumulative segment rating to each of said federated profiles associated with each of said professionals, and wherein said response from each of said professionals associated with each of said federated profiles is associated with an attribute defining said source and said respondent for each of said federated profile during credentialing, and a date of certification; auto-validating said responses to further certify said information provided by said respondents for each of said federated profiles through one or more sources of a social networking platform that associates said professionals through a social networking profile; either refining said segment rating for each of said federated profiles or associating a separate rating based on a mapping of each of said federated profiles with said social networking profiles; and facilitating access by said plurality of medical entities to retrieve said responses identifying credentialing and certification and said refined or associated rating through a web-based portal operating in said crowdsourced network. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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