Information evaluation
First Claim
1. A method for evaluating any computer-readable articles, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
- presenting any such articles to a set of agents for each article within a session, each agent including an expression, a voting bias, and an indication of the statistical reliability of the agent;
determining whether the expression for each agent matches the article;
determining whether the agent is sufficiently reliably to vote when the agent'"'"'s expression matches the article;
voting for or against the article according to the agent'"'"'s voting bias, if the agent is sufficiently reliable to vote; and
deriving an evaluation value for the article from a count of agents voting for the article and a count of agents voting against the article.
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Abstract
An automatic method and apparatus for processing information. Features in the information are recognized and occurrences of user-relevant features in the features of the information are determined. Based upon the occurrences of user-relevant features, evaluation values for portions of the information are determined based on a sum of the occurrences of the user-relevant features in each of the portions of the information. The evaluation values are then used to process the portions of the information. The processing may include an automatic recording process, squelch control, sorting process, display by evaluation value or other mechanisms.
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16 Claims
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1. A method for evaluating any computer-readable articles, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
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presenting any such articles to a set of agents for each article within a session, each agent including an expression, a voting bias, and an indication of the statistical reliability of the agent; determining whether the expression for each agent matches the article; determining whether the agent is sufficiently reliably to vote when the agent'"'"'s expression matches the article; voting for or against the article according to the agent'"'"'s voting bias, if the agent is sufficiently reliable to vote; and deriving an evaluation value for the article from a count of agents voting for the article and a count of agents voting against the article. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An apparatus for evaluating articles, the apparatus comprising:
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means for presenting any computer-readable articles to a set of agents for each article within a session, each agent including an expression, a voting bias, and an indication of the statistical reliability of the agent; means for determining whether the expression for each agent matches the article; means for determining whether the agent is sufficiently reliable to vote when the agent'"'"'s expression matches the article; means for voting for or against the article according to the agent'"'"'s voting bias, if the agent is sufficiently reliable to vote; and means for deriving an evaluation value for the article from a count of agents voting for the article and a count of agents voting against the article. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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