Patent ID: 8126757
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. In a participant selection system communicatively coupled with one or more trusted authorities for which information integrity of the one or more trusted authorities is maintained through each of the one or more trusted authorities restricting involvement from a general public and being maintained either privately by an organization or maintained by a trusted third party, a computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at the participant selection system, selection information from the one or more trusted authorities associated with a plurality of participants of a collaborative process, wherein the selection information comprises prior transaction data including one or more prior transactions associated with each of the plurality of participants; identifying, at the participant selection system, a potential list of participants among the plurality of participants based on the selection information from the one or more trusted authorities; deriving, at the participant selection system, one or more trust parameters from the one or more prior transactions associated with each participant among the potential list of participants, wherein each of the one or more trust parameters algorithmically quantify a projected future measure of trustworthiness of each of the potential list of participants in a potential transaction with the organization; and recommending, from the participant selection system, a participant from among the potential list of participants based on the one or more trust parameters.