Vendor-driven, social-network enabled review collection system and method
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a database that contains reviews and reviews information, locator code information, subject information, and user information; and
a computer system configured to instantiate a review engine server that provides a first information to a user and receives a second information from said user and stores at least some of the second information in the database, wherein said first information includes at least a review form, and said second information includes at least a locator code, and further wherein said locator code references a unique transaction.
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Abstract
The embodiments of the present system include a review engine that is connected to support modules and databases that receive, store and retrieve reviews, based upon the subject and the users'"'"' relationship to the authors of the reviews. The review engine comprises a social network engine, a rate and rank engine, a credentials engine and a privacy engine. These engines allow reviews to be sorted, filtered and ordered in terms of relevance when presented to the user. Numerous methods are also provided by the system that receive, store and retrieve reviews.
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a database that contains reviews and reviews information, locator code information, subject information, and user information; and a computer system configured to instantiate a review engine server that provides a first information to a user and receives a second information from said user and stores at least some of the second information in the database, wherein said first information includes at least a review form, and said second information includes at least a locator code, and further wherein said locator code references a unique transaction. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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10. A method implemented on a computer system having a reviews database for collecting reviews, comprising:
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receiving by a review submission subsystem of the computer system a locator code wherein said locator code is used to retrieve a locator record associated with one or more subjects to be reviewed, and further wherein said locator code references a unique transaction; receiving by the review submission subsystem of the computer system one or more reviews pertaining to said one or more subjects; and storing said one or more reviews in said reviews database of the computer system only if a valid locator code has been received. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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