Patent ID: 8412557
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for expressing information concerning an offering in a computer system, which method comprises: retrieving, by a computer, user feedback information from a computer memory containing information from a multitude of users indicating a reaction of each of the multitude of users to the offering, each reaction being classified on a scale ranging from negative to positive; and evaluating the user feedback information to determine whether or not the offering is controversial, the evaluating step further comprising the steps of: calculating, by the computer, a measure of relatively intense reactions to the offering from the reactions, a reaction being relatively intense when the reaction meets an intensity threshold on the scale; calculating, by the computer, an average reaction to the offering from the reactions; and determining, by the computer, a degree of controversiality for the offering from at least the measure of relatively intense reactions and the average reaction.