Method and system for incorporating trusted metadata in a computing environment
First Claim
1. A method for providing trustworthy information about an item, the method comprising:
- querying a personalized database of trusted metadata concerning the item, the personalized database of trusted metadata including at least one report, the at least one report emanating from metadata received from an informer network, the informer network including a computer user and at least one informer, each informer in the informer network being trusted by the computer user either directly or indirectly to have opinions that coincide with those of the computer user, each indirectly trusted informer being trusted directly by at least one other informer in the informer network, each of the at least one report including one of an explicit subjective assertion, by an informer in the informer network from which that report originated, regarding the quality of an item and an explicit expression, by the informer in the informer network from which that report originated, of a degree of trust in another informer regarding the another informer'"'"'s opinions; and
indicating to the computer user the item'"'"'s subjective quality based on at least one report about the item from an informer in the informer network in the personalized database of trusted metadata.
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Abstract
A method and system for incorporating trusted metadata in a computing environment is described. One illustrative embodiment is a system comprising at least one functional module configured to query a personalized database of trusted metadata including at least one report from an informer network that includes the computer user and at least one informer, each informer in the informer network being trusted by the computer user either directly or indirectly, each indirectly trusted informer being trusted directly by at least one other informer in the informer network, each of the at least one report including a subjective assertion regarding the quality of an item or an expression of a degree of trust in an informer; and at least one functional module configured to perform a task in the computing environment based at least in part on results of a query of the personalized database of trusted metadata.
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23 Claims
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1. A method for providing trustworthy information about an item, the method comprising:
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querying a personalized database of trusted metadata concerning the item, the personalized database of trusted metadata including at least one report, the at least one report emanating from metadata received from an informer network, the informer network including a computer user and at least one informer, each informer in the informer network being trusted by the computer user either directly or indirectly to have opinions that coincide with those of the computer user, each indirectly trusted informer being trusted directly by at least one other informer in the informer network, each of the at least one report including one of an explicit subjective assertion, by an informer in the informer network from which that report originated, regarding the quality of an item and an explicit expression, by the informer in the informer network from which that report originated, of a degree of trust in another informer regarding the another informer'"'"'s opinions; and indicating to the computer user the item'"'"'s subjective quality based on at least one report about the item from an informer in the informer network in the personalized database of trusted metadata. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for processing an item by computer, the method comprising:
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querying a personalized database of trusted metadata concerning the item, the personalized database of trusted metadata including at least one report, the at least one report emanating from metadata received from an informer network, the informer network including a computer user and at least one informer, each informer in the informer network being trusted by the computer user either directly or indirectly to have opinions that coincide with those of the computer user, each indirectly trusted informer being trusted directly by at least one other informer in the informer network, each of the at least one report including one of an explicit subjective assertion, by an informer in the informer network from which that report originated, regarding the quality of an item and an explicit expression, by the informer in the informer network from which that report originated, of a degree of trust in another informer regarding the another informer'"'"'s opinions; determining the item'"'"'s subjective quality based on at least one report about the item from an informer in the informer network in the personalized database of trusted metadata; and processing the item in accordance with its subjective quality. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A system for incorporating trusted metadata in a computing environment associated with a computer user, the system comprising:
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a processor; and a memory containing a plurality of program instructions configured to cause the processor to; query a personalized database of trusted metadata, the personalized database of trusted metadata including at least one report, the at least one report emanating from metadata received from an informer network, the informer network including the computer user and at least one informer, each informer in the informer network being trusted by the computer user either directly or indirectly to have opinions that coincide with those of the computer user, each indirectly trusted informer being trusted directly by at least one other informer in the informer network, each of the at least one report including one of an explicit subjective assertion, by an informer in the informer network from which that report originated, regarding the quality of an item and an explicit expression, by the informer in the informer network from which that report originated, of a degree of trust in another informer regarding the another informer'"'"'s opinions; and perform a task in the computing environment based at least in part on results of a query of the personalized database of trusted metadata, the results being based on at least one report about the item from an informer in the informer network in the personalized database of trusted metadata.
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23. A computer-readable storage medium containing program instructions executable by a processor to incorporate trusted metadata in a computing environment associated with a computer user, the program instructions comprising:
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a first instruction segment configured to query a personalized database of trusted metadata, the personalized database of trusted metadata including at least one report, the at least one report emanating from metadata received from an informer network, the informer network including the computer user and at least one informer, each informer in the informer network being trusted by the computer user either directly or indirectly to have opinions that coincide with those of the computer user, each indirectly trusted informer being trusted directly by at least one other informer in the informer network, each of the at least one report including one of an explicit subjective assertion, by an informer in the informer network from which that report originated, regarding the quality of an item and an explicit expression, by the informer in the informer network from which that report originated, of a degree of trust in another informer regarding the another informer'"'"'s opinions; and a second instruction segment configured to perform a task in the computing environment based at least in part on results of a query of the personalized database of trusted metadata, the results being based on at least one report about the item from an informer in the informer network in the personalized database of trusted metadata.
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