Patent ID: 8321496
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for identifying as being helpful or otherwise valuable product/service reviews in a database coupled to a distributed communication network, the method comprising: displaying product/service reviews from the database on a client display connected to the database over the network; providing an interactive element associated with each of the displayed reviews on the client display, which when clicked by a user, indicates that the user has found a displayed review associated with a product/service helpful in determining whether or not to purchase or use the product/service; receiving at the database an indication that the user has clicked the interactive element, and incrementing a count of a stored number of indications for the review (1) in response to the indication and (2) if the stored number of indications does not exceed one indication for the review from the user; and displaying the count of the stored number of indications for the review on the client display together with the review; sending an error to the user if the interactive element is clicked more than once by the user for the review; sorting the reviews in ascending or descending order as a function of the number of indications tallied for each review, and sequentially displaying the reviews in the sorted order; and recurrently tallying the number of indications and re-sorting the reviews for a subsequent display.