Patent ID: 8943069
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: G06N,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: storing, by a computer system, a plurality of items of information submitted by users of an information service in a database of the information service; receiving, at the computer system, a plurality of individual ratings submitted by the users of the information service and associated with various ones of the plurality of items of information, wherein at least some of the individual ratings include rating values in different rating categories, and wherein the different rating categories correspond to different attributes of the associated various ones of the plurality of items of information; storing, by the computer system, a plurality of aggregate ratings for the various ones of the plurality of items of information, wherein the plurality of aggregate ratings is based on the individual ratings submitted by the users of the information service; receiving, at the computer system, a selected sorting criterion corresponding to at least one of the plurality of rating categories; and sorting, by the computer system, at least a subset of the items of information, wherein the sorting is based on the selected sorting criterion.