Patent ID: 7984078
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for ranking and improving answers supplied by users to an online database system, the method employing: an online computer database system for supplying and retrieving answers (answer DBS), this answer DBS including processors, memory, online input/output, software, and a user interface for: creating user accounts, including accounts for funds entering a question and supplying a corresponding answer entering a question and retrieving a corresponding answer entering a bet offer, directed at a specified user accepting a bet offer entering a bet decision, the method comprising the following steps that the answer DBS executes: a first author enters a question and supplies the first answer to that question, the answer DBS: then, a second author enters the same question and supplies a different answer, the answer DBS: if the current author does not accept the bet offer, the answer DBS: if the current author accepts the bet offer, the answer DBS: if the judge finds that the current answer is better, the answer DBS maintaining the current answer as the current answer; if the judge finds that the challenger author's answer is better, then the answer DBS designating the challenger author's answer as the current answer and designating the challenger author as the current author.