Patent ID: 6505202
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
Apparatus for evaluating items of information comprising:evaluation value definitions that define a plurality of evaluation values; relationship definitions that define relationships between evaluation values, a relationship relating a first evaluation value to a second evaluation value; a profile; an assigner that assigns one or more of the evaluation values to an item of information or a profile and, when the assigned evaluation value is a first evaluation value in a relationship, assigns the second evaluation value in the relationship to the item of information or profile; an evaluator which evaluates an item of information in terms of a match between the evaluation values assigned to the profile and the evaluation values assigned to the item of information and; wherein the relationship definition includes a validity, the validity representing an assessment of a correctness of an assignment; and the assignment for the second evaluation value has the validity defined for the relationship.