Patent ID: 9298815
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing an interface for collaborative innovation, the method comprising: providing a content provider interface to a content provider; receiving an item from a content provider via the content provider interface; providing a user interface to one or more users wherein the user interface allows the one or more users to create one or more primary responses linked with the item, create one or more secondary responses, and rate the primary and secondary responses, wherein each of the primary responses is directly related to the item, and wherein the item comprises a previously created primary response, a previously created secondary response, or a new item; receiving the one or more primary responses associated with the initial item and the one or more secondary responses associated with the primary responses from the one or more users via the user interface; displaying, via the user interface, a graphical hierarchical representation of the item, the one or more primary responses, an association between the one or more primary responses and the item, the one or more secondary responses, and an association between the one or more secondary responses and the one or more primary responses; displaying a full description of the item, the primary responses and the secondary responses selected for rating; receiving input through the graphical hierarchical representation of the displayed user interface, which rates the primary and secondary responses; and providing the primary and secondary responses to the content provider via the content provider interface wherein the primary and secondary responses are ordered based on an overall rating calculation applied to each of the primary and secondary responses; displaying in the content provider interface a plurality of adjustable weight selectors for setting weights applied to a respective plurality of factors that are utilized in calculating an overall rating for each of the primary and secondary responses, wherein at least one of the respective plurality of factors includes ratings of user ideas in the one or more primary responses and the one or more secondary responses received from the one or more users via the user interface, the plurality of factors comprising of a percentage of users who liked a response, a number of ratings provided for a response and a number of views of a response; displaying in the content provider interface a weighting reset button; modifying the weights applied to the respective plurality of overall rating calculation factors and re-calculating the overall rating for each of the primary and secondary responses responsive to the input obtained from the one or more displayed plurality of adjustable weight selectors and input received from the displayed weighting reset button in the content provider interface; and displaying in the content provider interface the primary and secondary responses ordered based on the modified weights and the recalculation of the overall rating for each of the primary and secondary responses.