Trust-based video content evaluation
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1. A computer system for measuring confidence in a user in a video hosting system, comprising:
- a scoring server, executed by the video hosting system, and configured to generate a trust score based on user information, the trust score representing a measure of trust in the user, and the user information including information describing the activities of other users with respect to the user'"'"'s uploaded videos; and
an evaluation server coupled to the scoring server and configured to rank a user account associated with the user into one of a plurality of ranking tiers based on the trust score and to selectively evaluate videos provided by the user based on the trust score, the users of different trust ranks being able to upload videos of different lengths, and wherein users of higher trust ranks being able to upload longer videos than users of lower trust ranks.
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Abstract
A system and method determines which uploaded videos to subject to further analysis based upon a measure of trust in the users who uploaded the videos. The evaluation system obtains the information about a user'"'"'s uploaded video content to a video hosting website, determines a measure of trust of the user'"'"'s account based on the user information, and ranks or classifies the user into a trust category base on the trust measure. The evaluation system determines the user'"'"'s trust category responsive to user uploading a video, and selectively evaluates the uploaded video based on the trust category.
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1. A computer system for measuring confidence in a user in a video hosting system, comprising:
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a scoring server, executed by the video hosting system, and configured to generate a trust score based on user information, the trust score representing a measure of trust in the user, and the user information including information describing the activities of other users with respect to the user'"'"'s uploaded videos; and an evaluation server coupled to the scoring server and configured to rank a user account associated with the user into one of a plurality of ranking tiers based on the trust score and to selectively evaluate videos provided by the user based on the trust score, the users of different trust ranks being able to upload videos of different lengths, and wherein users of higher trust ranks being able to upload longer videos than users of lower trust ranks. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer method for measuring confidence in a user in a video hosting system, comprising:
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generating, by a computer, a trust score based on user information, the trust score representing a measure of trust in the user, and the user information including information describing the activities of other users with respect to the user'"'"'s uploaded videos; and ranking a user account associated with the user into one of a plurality of ranking tiers based on the trust score; selectively evaluating, by the computer, videos provided by the user based on the trust score, the users of different trust ranks being able to upload videos of different lengths, and wherein users of higher trust ranks being able to upload longer videos than users of lower trust ranks. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer executable code contained therein for measuring confidence in a user in a video hosting system, the computer executable code comprising code for:
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generating a trust score based on user information, the trust score representing a measure of trust in the user, and the user information including information describing the activities of other users with respect to the user'"'"'s uploaded videos; and ranking a user account associated with the user into one of a plurality of ranking tiers based on the trust score; selectively evaluating videos provided by the user based on the trust score, the users of different trust ranks being able to upload videos of different lengths, and wherein users of higher trust ranks being able to upload longer videos than users of lower trust ranks. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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