Patent ID: 11968105
Assignee: WWW.TRUSTSCIENCE.COM INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method for determining network connectivity between a first node and a second node connected to the first node by at least one path, the method comprising:
receiving an input of a user request via at least one user input device of a user device, the input comprising a user request to calculate the network connectivity between a first node and a second node within a network community and an indication of relevant third-party ratings data;
transmitting, using a network connection capability of the user device, an indication of the user request to a remote server, wherein the indication of the user request includes information sufficient to allow the remote server to identify the first node, the second node, and the relevant third-party ratings data;
receiving, using the network connection capability of the user device, from the remote server, a network connectivity indication, wherein the network connectivity indication was determined and transmitted by at least one processing server configured to:
access a path weight threshold value;
identify paths to the second node from the first node within a network community, wherein each path comprises one or more links, wherein each link is assigned a user connectivity value, and wherein the processing circuitry identifies the paths to the second node from the first node within the network community by identifying only those paths with a normalized path weight above the accessed path weight threshold value;
determine the normalized path weight for each of the identified paths; for each of the identified paths, identify the user connectivity value assigned to a link in the path;
for each of the identified paths, calculate a product of the identified user connectivity value and the normalized path weight;
sum the calculated products to produce the network connectivity indication;
access third-party ratings data;
determine the network connectivity indication based, at least in part, on the third-party ratings data; and
transmit the network connectivity indication to the user device.