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

Claim 0:
1. A system for determining network connectivity between a first node and a second node connected to the first node by at least one path, the system comprising:
a user device comprising:
a network connection capability for connecting to a communication network;
at least one user input device; and processing circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to:
connect to a remote server using the network connection capability;
receive an input of a user request via the at least one user input 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;
transmit, using the network connection capability, 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;
receive, using the network connection capability, 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 server is configured to identify 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.