Patent ID: 7162450
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A business method for determining and signaling content quality of preexisting independently created digital data independent of a user, the preexisting independently created digital data is provided between digital devices including a digital source and a digital receiver of the preexisting digital data content, the preexisting independently created digital data having a plurality of data records, each of the plurality of data records having a plurality of data fields, the business method comprising the following steps: accessing remotely the preexisting independently created digital data; assessing the quality of the content of the preexisting independently created digital data using one or more predefined sets of criteria without user interaction; assigning a grade indicative of the quality of the content of the preexisting independently created digital data as a function of the one or more predefined sets of criteria without user interaction; and, marking the preexisting independently created digital data with the assigned grade without changing and without accessing the content of the preexisting independently created digital data and without user interaction; wherein the digital receiver without user interaction dynamically evaluates the marked grade to determine suitability for subsequent use of the preexisting independently created digital data without accessing the preexisting independently created digital data; whereby another digital receiver without user interaction can independently determine suitability from the marked grade for another subsequent use of the preexisting digital data without accessing the preexisting digital data.