Sharing form training result utilizing a social network

• US 8,601,059 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2012
• Issued: 12/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chan, Yuk L., To, Tin H., Zhou, Wei, Chan, Uman
• Primary Examiner(s): Whipple, Brian P
• Application Number:
  US13/648,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20130036172A1
• Time in Patent Office: 419 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A mechanism is provided for providing trustworthiness for users of a social network for web sites. The computer listens to web browsing activities of a user, and receives feedback from the user when web browsing by monitoring user actions. monitoring user actions includes monitoring the user searching a peer-to-peer environment and search results obtained, and in response to the user selecting a first link for the search results in the peer-to-peer environment, determining a score for the first link based on the user selecting a second link for the search results. The score for the first link is provided to the users of the social network.

Claims

1. A method implemented on a computer for providing trustworthiness for users of a social network for a peer-to-peer file sharing web site, comprising:

listening, by the computer, to web browsing activities of a user searching on the peer-to-peer file sharing web site;

receiving feedback from user selections when web browsing on the peer-to-peer file sharing website, by the computer monitoring user actions which comprises;

monitoring the user searching the peer-to-peer file sharing web site and search results obtained; and

in response to the user selecting a first link to download a first file in the search results in the peer-to-peer file sharing web site, determining by the computer a score for the first link to download the first file based on the user selecting a second link to download a second file in the search results of the peer-to-peer file sharing web site;

determining, by the computer, that the first link to download the first file is bad based on selection of the second link to download the second file after having selected the first link to download the first file when both the first link and the second link are for a same search results on the peer-to-peer file sharing web site; and

providing the score for the first link to the users of the social network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the score is a trustworthiness score for the first link.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a plug-in to web browser software executes the listening and the monitoring.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising in response to the user selecting a web site link and the web site link causing multiple browser windows to open, creating a score for the web site link causing multiple windows to open;

wherein the score is provided to the users to reflect the web site link causing multiple windows to open.