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Rating based on relationship

  • US 8,296,356 B2
  • Filed: 08/31/2007
  • Issued: 10/23/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing a rating comprising:

  • using a processor to perform acts comprising;

    receiving, from a first person, an indication of a rating target, wherein said rating target is an object, a thing, a service, a product, or a second person other than said first person;

    identifying a first set of one or more raters that stand in a relationship to said first person and that have rated said rating target;

    communicating, to said first person, information based on (a) one or more ratings of said rating target that have been provided by said first set of one or more raters, and (b) a differentiation of said first set of one or more raters from a second set of raters that do not stand in said relationship to said first person, wherein said information comprises a number based on said one or more ratings; and

    performing a computation to generate said number, where said computation is based on each of said one or more ratings, and where said computation assigns, to each given rating, ri, a weight, wi, based on a degree of connection, di, between said first person and a rater that provided the given rating, wherein the weight, wi, is a non-zero number for ratings provided by raters whose degree of connection to said person is n or less, and zero for ratings provided by raters whose degree of connection to said first person is greater than n, where n is a positive number, and wherein the weight is the same non-zero number for ratings provided by raters whose degree of connection is n or less, so that said number is equal to Σ

    i((ri·

    wi)/s), where s equals either 1 or the total number of ratings, where wi=0 for all di>

    n and wi

    0 for all di<

    n.

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