Patent ID: 9047628
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of determining at least one weighted online content rating, the method comprising: receiving, by a computing device at an operator, an identity of a collector, a list of raters, and a social graph, receiving, by the computing device, for the at least one rater a metric, the metric including a value corresponding to an online rating left by the at least one rater; receiving, by the computing device, a path list for the at least one rater including at least one path from the at least one rater to the collector, a path including a list of nodes and links forming the connection between the at least one rater and the collector; determining, by the computing device, for the at least one rater a set of non-intersecting paths between the rater and the collector, and for each non-intersecting path, assigning a unit capacity value to each link in the at least one non-intersecting path; calculating, by the computing device, a capacity value for each link across all nonintersecting paths, and determining the link values that are overcapacity, an overcapacity link including a link with a capacity value greater than a unit capacity value; normalizing, by the computing device, path values including overcapacity links in order from the least-overcapacity to the most-overcapacity; adding, by the computing device, the normalized path values for each non-intersecting path corresponding to the at least one rater to determine the at least one rater's weight; and applying, by the computing device, the at least one rater's weight to the at least one rater's rating.