Patent ID: 8639650

Claim:
A computer system for serving distributed client computers and mobile devices in a social network, wherein the computer system links distributed users, participating through multiple communication channels, with different levels of authorship and permissions, said computer system comprising: one or more network interface; one or more processor for performing instructions for: combining collective intelligence methods for processing data from anonymous users with collaborative intelligence methods wherein user contributions are credited and tagged to individual users to make searchable contributor fingerprints which comprise the total record of contributor actions in the system; enlisting entries from, and querying, distributed users and agents; receiving and parsing natural language user entries to tag, categorize, group, classify attributes, and integrate diverse entries; generating new queries based upon task requester and user needs, as well as user performance capability, as defined by prior performance and assessments, tagged to user profiles; maintaining individual responses private, anonymous, and independent of each other when responders should not be influenced by each others' responses; making responses visible and credited, as specified by the task requester, by each participant, and/or by task design; providing regular updates on the globally integrated response status, visible to the social network designated by the specific process, thus enabling user input as specified by task design; publishing selected responses for comment, rating or vote from distributed user-responders when an iterative approach can achieve convergence; one or more data storage device for storing said instructions.