Managing moderation of user-contributed edits

• US 9,270,712 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2013
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: McClendon, Brian A., Anil, Robin, Katragadda, Lalitesh Kumar, Agarwal, Rachna
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US13/862,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20130275884A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,047 Days
• Field of Search: 715751-753, 715780-781, 715763-765
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

A geographic information system allows users to access a map database and to contribute map data to the database. Proposed edits to the map are queued for review by a reviewer users. Reviewing users can subscribe to review edits in regions and/or to types of map features. Reviewers can share their subscriptions with other reviewers. In the moderation queue, the proposed edits are ranked and those edits proposed by users who also review are optionally ranked higher and thus reviewed sooner than edits proposed by users who do not review or review less. The history of reviewers is analyzed to identify those with expertise in a particular region and/or type of map feature. One embodiment of the system includes a database containing geographic data, an inference module, a spam prevention module, a reviewing module and a publishing module.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for moderating proposed edits to a map comprising:

storing a plurality of proposed edits, each proposed edit comprising an addition, deletion or change of a map feature, each map feature located in a geographic area and associated with an at least one attribute;

receiving from a reviewer a selection of one of a first geographic area or a first attribute;

selecting a plurality of proposed edits responsive to the geographic area matching the first geographic area or the at least one attribute matching the first attribute;

placing the plurality of proposed edits in a queue associated with the reviewer;

receiving from the reviewer a request to share the queue with a second reviewer; and

associating the queue with the second reviewer.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining a risk signal associated with each of the proposed edits in the queue;

determining a trust signal associated with the second reviewer;

comparing the trust signal of the second reviewer and the risk signal for one of the proposed edits and responsive to the risk signal of one of the proposed edits exceeding the trust signal of the second reviewer, removing the one of the proposed edits from the queue for the second reviewer.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein:

receiving from a reviewer a selection of one of a first geographic area or a first attribute comprises receiving a selection of a first geographic region and a first attribute; and

selecting a plurality of proposed edits responsive to the geographic area matching the first geographic area or the at least one attribute matching the first attribute comprises selecting a plurality of proposed edits responsive to the geographic area matching the first geographic area and the at least one attribute matching the first attribute.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the queue comprises proposed edits proposed by a user who is a reviewer of proposed edits and further comprising:

determining a rank for the proposed edits proposed by a user who is a reviewer of proposed edits based on the number of edits reviewed by the user proposing the proposed edit.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein determining the rank for the proposed edits proposed by a user who is a reviewer of proposed edits based on the number of edits reviewed by the user proposing the proposed edit comprises determining the rank based on the ratio of the number of proposed edits proposed by the user to the number of proposed edits reviewed by the user.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein determining the rank for the plurality of proposed edits proposed by a user who is a reviewer of proposed edits is further based on a quality of the user'"'"'s moderation.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the quality of the user'"'"'s moderation comprises a level of detail of the user'"'"'s comments when moderating.

8. A system for moderating proposed edits to a map comprising:

a processor for executing computer program code; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program code executable for;

storing a plurality of proposed edits, each proposed edit comprising an addition, deletion or change of a map feature, each map feature located in a geographic area and associated with at least one attribute;

receiving from a reviewer a selection of at least one of one of a first geographic area and a first attribute;

selecting a plurality of proposed edits responsive to the geographic area matching the first geographic area or the at least one attribute matching the first attribute;

placing the plurality of proposed edits in a queue associated with the reviewer;

receiving from the reviewer a request to share the queue with a second reviewer; and

associating the queue with the second reviewer.

9. The system of claim 8 further comprising program code for:

determining a risk signal associated with each of the proposed edits in the queue;

determining a trust signal associated with the second reviewer;

comparing the trust signal of the second reviewer and the risk signal for one of the proposed edits and responsive to the risk signal of one of the proposed edits exceeding the trust signal of the second reviewer, removing the one of the proposed edits from the queue for the second reviewer.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein:

receiving from a reviewer a selection of one of a first geographic area or a first attribute comprises receiving a selection of a first geographic region and a first attribute; and

selecting a plurality of proposed edits responsive to the geographic area matching the first geographic area or the at least one attribute matching the first attribute comprises selecting a plurality of proposed edits responsive to the geographic area matching the first geographic area and the at least one attribute matching the first attribute.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein the queue comprises proposed edits proposed by a user who is a reviewer of proposed edits and further comprising program code for:

determining a rank for the proposed edits proposed by a user who is a reviewer of proposed edits based on the number of edits reviewed by the user proposing the proposed edit.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein determining the rank for the proposed edits proposed by a user who is a reviewer of proposed edits based on the number of edits reviewed by the user proposing the proposed edit comprises determining the rank based on the ratio of the number of proposed edits proposed by the user to the number of proposed edits reviewed by the user.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein determining the rank for the plurality of proposed edits proposed by a user who is a reviewer of proposed edits is further based on a quality of the user'"'"'s moderation.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the quality of the user'"'"'s moderation comprises a level of detail of the user'"'"'s comments when moderating.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable program code for moderating proposed edits to a map the computer program code comprising program code executable for:

storing a plurality of proposed edits, each proposed edit comprising an addition, deletion or change of a map feature, each map feature located in a geographic area and associated with at least one attribute that describes the feature;

receiving from a reviewer a selection of at least one of a first geographic area and a first attribute;

selecting a plurality of proposed edits responsive to the geographic area matching the first geographic area or the at least one attribute matching the first attribute, wherein the plurality of proposed edits comprises proposed edits proposed by a user who is a reviewer of the proposed edits;

determining a rank for the proposed edits proposed by the user who is a reviewer of proposed edits based on the number of edits reviewed by the user proposing the proposed edit;

placing the plurality of proposed edits in a queue associated with the reviewer responsive to the determined rank;

receiving from the reviewer a request to share the queue with a second reviewer; and

associating the queue with the second reviewer.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 further comprising program code:

determining a risk signal associated with each of the proposed edits in the queue;

determining a trust signal associated with the second reviewer;

comparing the trust signal of the second reviewer and the risk signal for one of the proposed edits and responsive to the risk signal of one of the proposed edits exceeding the trust signal of the second reviewer, removing the one of the proposed edits from the queue for the second reviewer.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15:

receiving from a reviewer a selection of one of a first geographic area or a first attribute comprises receiving a selection of a first geographic region and a first attribute; and

selecting a plurality of proposed edits responsive to the geographic area matching the first geographic area or the at least one attribute matching the first attribute comprises selecting a plurality of proposed edits responsive to the geographic area matching the first geographic area and the at least one attribute matching the first attribute.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 wherein determining the rank for the proposed edits proposed by the user who is a reviewer of proposed edits based on the number of edits reviewed by the user proposing the proposed edit comprises determining the rank based on the ratio of the number of proposed edits proposed by the user to the number of proposed edits reviewed by the user.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 wherein determining the rank for the plurality of proposed edits proposed by the user who is a reviewer of proposed edits is further based on a quality of the user'"'"'s moderation.