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• This invention pertains generally to Internet, web, and network-based message boards and forums, chat rooms, email, and other forms of asynchronous and synchronous communication and more particularly to such message boards and forums, chat rooms, email and the like for which a contributor or poster reputation is automatically evaluated on some objective criteria and used to rank, rate, or filter contributions, postings, or other content contributed by or attributed to the contributor or poster.
• the current state-of-the-art is a relatively crude filtering capability that is subjective at best, that can be applied only after a post or submission has been written, and that works (if at all) by shifting the burden of quality control to the users of a web site or other interactive or on-line forum.
• No known on-line sites, message boards, plural user contributed or other forums or the like are known that use or have a capability of filtering posts or contributions, in advance, based on the reputation of the poster or contributor especially of sites, message boards, and/or forums where there are a plurality of posters or contributors other than for example a site, message board, or forum administrator or originator.
• a major difficulty in constructing such a system to date has been the challenge of obtaining reliable and objective information on the quality of posters or contributors.
• a site like SlashDot necessarily relies on the subjective judgment of their readers to assign scores.
• Other sites that have quality rating systems e.g., the on-line auction site Ebay
• Other sites that have quality rating systems also typically rely on subjective user ratings.
• raters know that they too will be rated (as for example on Ebay) the "reputations" become even less reliable since people are reluctant to give poor ratings for fear they will receive negative ratings in retaliation.
• many posters are one-time posters or infrequent posters, it is often impossible to reliably predict even the subjective quality of posts in advance.
• the invention provides a method for operating a reputation-based communication or content service including the steps of obtaining at least one metric related to a first user contributor reputation; identifying a communication or content having an association with the first user contributor; and processing the communication or content to generate a processed communication or content based on the obtained objective contributor reputation.
• a service is selected from the set of services consisting of an online bulletin board, an online message board, a chat room, a forum, a information provision service, a content delivery service, an email service, an information provision service, a search engine service, a content delivery service, a communication or content screening service, a communication or content screening service, and any combination of these.
• the invention provides a system for providing a reputation processed based on-line communication or content, the system comprising: a contributor reputation metric collection component; a communication or content medium identification component; and a communication or content reputation processing component.
• the invention provides a communication or content provided or generated by the inventive system or method.
• the invention provides a business method and business model for operating a communications or content provision service.
• the invention provides a computer program and computer program product stored either on a tangible media or in an electronically accessible and readable form.
• FIG. 1 is an illustration showing an exemplary embodiment of a system for providing and using the inventive reputation-based message board, web site, forum, chat room, other communications or content based or related site or service, or the like.
• FIG. 2 is an illustration showing an embodiment of a simple input box for a message board or comment entry from a pre-release mock-up of a predictwallstreet.com web site.
• FIG. 3 is an illustration showing an embodiment of a simple reputation-based bulletin board (RBB) as if might appear if posts were sorted by reputation for accuracy.
• FIG. 4 is an illustration showing an Illustrative dropdown or pull-down filtering control.
• FIG. 5 is an illustration showing a flow-chart diagram of an embodiment of the inventive method.
• the current invention is provides system, device, method, computer program, and business method for filtering posts based on objective quality metrics (e.g., the objective performance track record or reputation) of the poster.
• This performance track record or reputation may be based on historical past performance.
• the invention is referred to as Reputation-Based Boards (RBB) at least in part because it is the reputation (e.g. objective performance track record) of the poster that drives filtering (typically) of posts on message boards.
• the objective performance track record may for example be an objective performance accuracy track record or history.
• RBB is not limited only to message boards, web sites, or forums and the inventive RBB system and methodology which refer to each of these and others can add significant value to any type of bulletin board, message board, or other form of online information exchange where the information source or component of the information source can be identified or "tagged" with a poster reputation.
• a licensed medical surgeon posting on an online forum about a surgery may have an online reputation that reflects the number (and/or percentage) of successful surgeries completed or years of surgical practice or some other factual objective measurefanclTa stock " forecaster might have an online reputation that reflects the percentage of correct stock predictions or some other objective measure of the posters stock forecasting prediction performance.
• the reputation associated with a particular poster or contributor may be very closely tied to the posting or contribution made, even within a particular field.
• Joe an online stock forecaster, who may have correctly predicted the movement of IBM stock 80% of the time, but only correctly predicted the movement of Wal-Mart stock 50% of the time. This past objective performance seems to suggest that Joe has more insight or understanding into IBM stock (or perhaps the stock market segment in which IBM stock belongs) than to Wal-Mart (or perhaps it's market segment). Therefore, when Joe posts messages about IBM (on the IBM stock message board) he would have a strong reputation due to his relatively accurate track record of correct predictions. On the Wal-Mart stock message board, his reputation would be relatively poor.
• Reputations may be subjected to aging or other refinement so that recent objective history is given a greater objective weight, or stated differently, older performance may be discounted or not considered at all.
• reputations may be transformed or processed by any one or combination of a variety of different types of deterministic or statistically based algorithms and statistical formulas or computations, if such transformations or processing proves to yield more useful reputations or reputation based results.
• n ' obbdy needs to read and score Joe's posts or contributions (in this case stock forecasts) in an attempt to subjectively determine their quality. Instead, the posts may be automatically filtered based on Joe's objective reputation - a reputation that can be specific to each message board, on-line forum, or other source.
• Steve may go to the message board and request to see only posts by people who have had an 80% or better track record.
• Steve will see Joe's posts since Joe's contribution meets or exceeds the performance criteria of 80%.
• Criteria need not be numeric either and may be set into performance categories such as very reliable, usually reliable, questionable, erratic, or any other category that may be established to represent the objective past performance of the poster or contributor.
• the point is that Steve can make a much more informed decision about what to do with the information in Joe's post because Steve knows that Joe's reputation is based on objective performance criteria. Further, all readers are saved the chore of rating others.
• the system collects the reputation metrics automatically.
• RBB RedictWallStreet.com
• a predictor who has done consistently well over many predictions will have a good reputation starting with his or her very first post.
• a metric collection component such as a message board component or system which in a non- limiting embodiment includes (a) means and method for entering information, and (b) means and method for displaying information; and (3) a filtering mechanism and method which allows the message board to sort or otherwise modify the display of information that has been entered, based on the metrics (such as poster reputation) that have been collected.
• Other embodiments of the invention may separately include the individual components with the others being optional.
• FIG. 1 shows an exemplary embodiment of a system 51 , incorporating a server 52 that may serve to interact with one or more users 54 over an interactive electronic medium such as computers 56 or other information appliances coupled to the server 52 over a network 60 such as the Internet.
• the server 52 may include one or more processors 72 and processor coupled or associated memory 73 for any processing tasks that may be required. Such processing tasks may include controlling communications over the network to and from users, accessing one or more integrated or separate storage devices 74 such as for example hard disk drive persistent mass storage devices that may store programs, data, and other system, contributor, reputations, and/or other data and/or information described herein. Processing may also include activities of activities in support of processing user contributed information or information relative to rankings, ratings, reputations of the like as described herein elsewhere.
• TV ' usef may " access IHe server from a client side computer or information appliance (machine) 77 over the network communication link or line 78.
• the user may be provided with a computer program code or applet to display and interface with the server.
• Local storage may be provided on the local user computer or information appliance for storing data, tokens, cookies, or other identifiers or information.
• server may be distributed over a plurality of servers either for the purpose of scalability, redundancy, performance or for other reasons.
• a site, message board, and/or forum component which advantageously may include means and method for enter information and optionally but advantageously means and method for displaying information; and, (3) a rating, ranking, and/or filtering component which advantageously provides a mechanism which allows the site, message board, forum or the like to sort or otherwise modify the display of information that has been entered, based on the metrics (one metric being reputation) that have been collected.
• Embodiments of means for entering information or comments are later described relative to FIG. 2 and embodiments for displaying information or comments are later described relative to FIG. 3. It may be appreciated that the means and method for collecting metrics, for entering information, and for displaying information may occur only on the user or client computer or information appliance, only on a server computer, or distributed between the two in some manner so that none of these three main components may be required on any one computing machine. It may also be appreciated that certain of the components may be optional to a server component, or to a client component. Each of these main components are now described in greater detail including a description of several non-limiting embodiments, and with additional descriptions of variations, optional features and elements, and preferred implementations and/or embodiments.
• TirsCwifK regard ' t ' o ⁇ h ' e metric collection system automated data collection where data is collected without requiring additional input from a user or contributor, is preferable to requiring users to input data.
• the contributor or poster objective or factually based reputation is one such metric.
• systems and methods that can collect lots of relevant data points quickly and with minimal user effort are advantageously utilized.
• use of pre-existing data may sometimes be possible and may be implemented for some non-limiting embodiments of the invention.
• this "analyze the pre-existing data" approach is not feasible.
• collecting, updating, or otherwise having and using current metrics is advantageous, so that other embodiments may use this approach.
• accuracy of predictions is a key performance metric.
• Accuracy can be measured as directional accuracy (for example, how often did the stock go up when the contributing predictor predicted it would go up) or absolute accuracy (for example, how close was the contributing predictor's predicted price target to the actual price the stock achieved).
• directional accuracy for example, how often did the stock go up when the contributing predictor predicted it would go up
• absolute accuracy for example, how close was the contributing predictor's predicted price target to the actual price the stock achieved.
• RBBs are particularly powerful and valuable to financial forecasting systems when many predictions can be gathered quickly and easily and the accuracy of these predictions calculated automatically.
• the Graphical Forecasting Interface described in referenced related co- pending U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11/xxx,xxx, filed 22 September 2006 (Attorney Docket No. 61117.8004.US01 ) entitled Graphical Forecasting Interface, by inventors Craig A. Kaplan and Calen Lopata, and PCT/US06/xxxxx, also filed on 22 September 2006 entitled ⁇ ⁇ p ' flTbSfPbM ⁇ astf ⁇ ff' rfiWrFace by inventors Craig A. Kaplan and Calen Lopata, Attorney Docket No.
• 61117-8004 W001 which applications are hereby incorporated by reference, is a method of collecting many data points from users very quickly and easily that may optionally be utilized with aspects of the Reputation-Based Boards (RBBs) of the instant application.
• RBBs Reputation-Based Boards
• a RBB and a graphical interface may operate synergistically when provided together. Therefore it may be appreciated that one preferred implementation and embodiment for forecasting systems may include both a graphical forecasting interface component and a reputation based board component.
• a graphical forecasting interface component may include both a graphical forecasting interface component and a reputation based board component.
• Exemplary computer code is presented in Table 1 by way of example, as a way that a user may post comments or other information.
• Table 2 provides by way of example, computer code that may be used to display and view posted or contributed comments or other information.
• the code in Table 3 is exemplary computer program code for use within a web page to permit users to post and view comments and operates in conjunction with the code listed in Tables 1 and 2.
• This exemplary code provides a non-limiting illustration of how a simple message board from a financial forecasting system might work that uses past contributor accuracy as the objective reputation metric.
• Chat rooms, email, and other forms of asynchronous and synchronous communication can also be used instead of, or in addition to, online bulletin or message boards, web sites, and forums.
• These aspects and applications of the invention benefit substantially for the third "c ⁇ mp ⁇ e ⁇ C ' tfial of 'ra"h"K1 ⁇ ig"," rating, and filtering.
• Various filtering mechanisms, means, and method are next described.
• a chat room on a financial forecasting site might incorporates the ability to block communication (or some set of communication such as postings to a message board) from people who do not cross a minimum threshold for prediction accuracy.
• a data feed consisting of forecasts that is streamed to a ticker (see the above referenced co-pending patent application), or to an RSS feed would, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, be filtered according to user preferences with regard to accuracy and/or other criteria that might be important to the user (e.g., which stocks are in my portfolio or watch list).
• the reputation based board presents a compilation of relevant content based on the objective reputation of the contributors.
• the content may be any content such as a forecast or prediction, a recommendation, an opinion, a recommendation, a document, an image, a multimedia content, a comment or set of comments, an email or other communication, a message, a message board posting, a bulletin board posting, a forum posting, a personal profile, a dating profile, a connections posting, or any other item or content for which an objective reputation of a contributor, group of contributors, authors, reviewer(s), or the like may be useful for assessing the value of that content.
• the RBB processes the reputations of a group of contributors of a plurality of postings and uses the result of the processing to determine which contributor comments are included in the compilation.
• an average, weighted average, or other algorithmic or statistical transformation, of the individual reputations may be presented along with the compiled postings.
• the objective reputation of any single contributor may be used alone or in combination with the objective reputation of any other single or plurality of contributors, and, that once the objective contributor reputation information is available it may be applied to any content without limitation.
• the objective reputations may be used for many purposes beyond bulletin boards.
• content of any type may be filtered, compiled into collections of, highlighted in different colors or fonts or in different lists or different ways based on reputation metrics, automatically emailing or streaming comments that cross an identified reputation threshold, generating an alert in some fashion when content or material appears or is identified that has a strong enough reputation associated with it to be of interest to one or more users or groups of users, automatically deleting information or archiving information with sufficiently low reputation metrics, automatically linking to information based on the reputation associated with the information being linked to and/or the reputation associated with the information where the link originates, or other processing, cataloging, notifying, or the like based on the reputation metric.
• FIG. 3 illustrates very simple sample output of sorting based on accuracy.
• the techniques for programming threshold, filtering, and sorting are well-known in the art, so we do not describe them in further detail.
• FIG. 4 (adapted from Slashdot.org) illustrates a commonly used user interface for filtering controls that could be part of a preferred implementation of RBB if criteria included objective poster reputations rather than subjective scores for posts.
• the Slashdot.org criteria does not include either objective poster reputations or many other aspects of the invention set forth herein.
• the preferred implementation may also include, without limitation, the ability to sort/filter/threshold posts by date, by topic, by poster, and by other categories of interest including accuracy.
• the invention provides a method for operating a reputation-based communication or content service, the method comprising: obtaining at least one metric related " to a fi'rsf " us “ er “ c ⁇ nffi ' b ⁇ t5T reputation; identifying a communication or content having an association with the first user contributor; and processing the communication or content to generate a processed communication or content based on the obtained objective contributor reputation.
• the method may further including processing the communication or content along with other different communications or content from other different contributors based at least in part on the objective contributor reputation of one or of a plurality of contributors.
• the method may further require that the service is selected from the set of services consisting of an online bulletin board, an online message board, a chat room, a forum, a information provision service, a content delivery service, an email service, an information provision service, a search engine service, a content delivery service, a communication or content screening service, a communication or content screening service, and any combination of these.
• the method may further require that the obtaining at least one metric related to a first user contributor reputation comprises the step of collecting the at least one metric related to a first user contributor reputation.
• the method may further require that the method (4) require that the collecting the at least one metric related to a first user contributor reputation is performed automatically by the method without a separate conscious input by the user contributor.
• the method may further require that the obtaining at least one metric related to a first user contributor reputation comprises obtaining the at least one metric related to a first user contributor reputation from an external source.
• the method may further require that the identifying of the communication or content comprises: at least one of: (i) receiving a first communication or content from the first user contributor; and (ii) identifying a contribution or content attributed at least in part to the first user contributor.
• the method may further require that the identifying of a communication or content having an association with the first user contributor comprises
• the method may further require sending a second communication to a user that includes the generated processed communication or content or portion thereof.
• the method may further require: obtaining at least one metric related to a plurality of different user contributor reputations; identifying a communication or content having an association with each of the plurality of user contributors; and processing the plurality of communications or contents to generate a processed communication or content based on the obtained objective contributor reputation for the plurality of different user contributors.
• the method may further require that the processing based on objective reputation comprises a processing selected from the set consisting of filtering, sorting, ordering, screening, compiling, grouping, deleting, flagging, hiding, highlighting, promoting, and any combination of these based on objective reputation of a contributor or a plurality of contributors.
• the method (11 ) may further require that wherein the processing may be different for different contributors or for different groups of contributors.
• the method may further require that the processing based on objective reputation includes a processing selected from the set consisting of: filtering to include some items and not others based on objective reputation of the contributor or group of contributors, filtering based on objective reputation of the contributor or group of contributors, filtering to exclude some items and not others based on objective reputation of the contributor or group of contributors, compiling a set of relevant content based on objective reputation of the contributor or group of contributors, ordering based on objective reputation of the contributor or group of contributors, ordering from low to high based on objective reputation of the contributor or group of contributors, ordering from high to low based on objective reputation of the contributor or group of contributors, selecting or not selecting based on objective reputation of t ⁇ e contributor or gr ⁇ " up " b?”c ⁇ htributors, processing based on objective reputation of the contributor or group of contributors, generating derivative objective reputation data based on objective reputation of the contributor or group of contributors, and any combination of these.
• the method may further require that the service is a communication forum selected from the set of forums consisting of a network site, an Intranet site, an Internet site, a world wide web site, an electronic mail or email, an interactive electronic bulletin board, an interactive electronic message board, an online information exchange, a set of email or comment threads, an online interactive stock prediction forum, an online forum, and any combination of these.
• the method may further require that the reputation metric comprises a factually based objective contributor reputation established in the same field of endeavor as the contribution being communicated.
• the method may further require that the objective contributor reputation comprises a historical accuracy-based reputation. In another embodiment (17), the method may further require that the historical accuracy-based reputation is for a contribution in the same field as the reputation was established.
• the method may further require that the step of collecting objective metrics, comprises collective objective metrics automatically without compelling a user take separate actions to provide objective metrics of information from which objective metrics are derived.
• the method may further require matching these reputation metrics closely to the topic of the particular communication forum.
• the method may further require filtering contributor postings with a predetermined objective accuracy and without a conscious human input contribution relative to a filtering metric.
• the method may further require automatically tracking the accuracy of contributors who provide an online prediction or forecast of an element and " "gfe ⁇ erating ' a "prediction” "accuracy result by comparing the prediction of the element with the actual value of the element at the predicted time and date, and automatically generating a prediction accuracy for the contributor based on that comparison.
• the method may further require that the element is an online stock price prediction.
• the method may further require that reputation metrics are be subjected to aging or other refinement so that recent objective history is given a greater objective weight or older performance may be discounted or not considered at all.
• the method may further require that collected or otherwise directly or indirectly available reputation metrics are processed to make them more useful.
• the method may further require that the processing to make them more useful comprises applying a statistical processing to a least one objective reputation metric.
• the method may further require that the applied statistical processing is selected from the set of statistical processing comprising: computing a weighted average over time, normalizing the reputation or plurality of reputations so that one contributor's reputation can be compared with another contributor's reputation according to some defined comparison criteria.
• the method may further require that the defined comparison criteria comprises an objective comparison criteria.
• the method may further require that the objective reputations comprise raw reputations, processed reputations, or any combination of raw reputations and processed reputations.
• the method may further require that the method further includes filtering or automatically selecting contributions to be seen or presented to a user based on an objective metric or combination of a plurality of metrics.
• the invention provides a system for providing a reputation processed based on-line communication or content, the system comprising: a contributor " reputation metric collection component; a communication or content medium identification component; and a communication or content reputation processing component.
• the system may further require that the collection component comprises a automatic collection component for collecting the reputation metric related to a contributor reputation automatically without a separate conscious input by a user contributor.
• the system (30) may further require that the at least one reputation metric is obtained from an external source.
• the system may further require that the contributor reputation metric identification component includes means for identifying of the communication or content selected from the set consisting of: (i) receiving a first communication or content from the first user contributor; and (ii) identifying a contribution or content attributed at least in part to the first user contributor.
• the system (32) may further require that the communication or content reputation processing component comprises a processing unit adapted for processing selected from the set of processing schemes consisting of filtering, sorting, ordering, screening, compiling, grouping, deleting, flagging, hiding, highlighting, promoting, and any combination of these based on objective reputation of a contributor or a plurality of contributors.
• the communication or content reputation processing component comprises a processing unit adapted for processing selected from the set of processing schemes consisting of filtering, sorting, ordering, screening, compiling, grouping, deleting, flagging, hiding, highlighting, promoting, and any combination of these based on objective reputation of a contributor or a plurality of contributors.
• system (33) may further require that the processing may be different for different contributors or for different groups of contributors.
• the system (34) may further require that the communication or content reputation processing component comprises a processing unit adapted for processing selected from the set of processing schemes consisting of filtering, sorting, ordering, screening, compiling, grouping, deleting, flagging, hiding, highlighting, "promoting, " arr ⁇ any comoination of these based on objective reputation of a contributor or a plurality of contributors.
• the communication or content reputation processing component comprises a processing unit adapted for processing selected from the set of processing schemes consisting of filtering, sorting, ordering, screening, compiling, grouping, deleting, flagging, hiding, highlighting, "promoting, " arr ⁇ any comoination of these based on objective reputation of a contributor or a plurality of contributors.
• the system may further require that the communication or content medium component is selected from the set consisting of a network site, an Intranet site, an Internet site, a world wide web site, an electronic mail or email, an interactive electronic bulletin board, an interactive electronic message board, an online information exchange, a set of email or comment threads, an online interactive stock prediction forum, an online forum, and any combination of these.
• the communication or content medium component is selected from the set consisting of a network site, an Intranet site, an Internet site, a world wide web site, an electronic mail or email, an interactive electronic bulletin board, an interactive electronic message board, an online information exchange, a set of email or comment threads, an online interactive stock prediction forum, an online forum, and any combination of these.
• the system may further require that the communication or content medium component further includes (a) means and for entering information, and (b) means for displaying information.
• the system may further require that the communication or content filtering component provides means for sorting, limiting, compiling, or otherwise modifying ⁇ other wise modifying is good, otherwise it sounds like only limiting and filtering and we are missing other forms of processing like compiling ⁇ the display of information that has been entered based on metrics that have been collected.
• the invention provides a communication or content processed according to the method and or by a system as described.
• the invention provides a computer program product stored in an electronically accessible media for altering the operation of a computer system or computer network, the computer program product including executable computer program instructions for causing the computer to generate a processed reputation-based communication or content and comprising instructions for: obtaining at least one metric related to a first user contributor reputation; identifying a communication or content having an association with the first user contributor; and processing the communication or content to generate a processed communication or content based on the obtained objective contributor reputation.
• the computer program and computer program product may provide program components to implement any of the steps and/or features of the described inventive method; and Be ⁇ mp ⁇ emented on a computer or on a plurality of computers to achieve a technical effect by altering the otherwise conventional operation of the computer or plurality of computers.
• the invention provides a business method for operating a reputation- based communication or content provision service, the business method comprising: obtaining at least one metric related to a first user contributor reputation; identifying a communication or content having an association with the first user contributor; processing the communication or content to generate a processed communication or content based on the obtained objective contributor reputation; providing the processed communication or content to a subscriber; and receiving a remuneration from the subscriber in exchange for the provided processed communication or content.
• the business method may further require that the remuneration is a financial remuneration, a service remuneration, a commission remuneration, a referral remuneration, or any combination of these.
• the term "embodiment” means an embodiment that serves to illustrate by way of example but not limitation.
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