Patent ID: 8015484

Claim:
A method for rating an online entity in accordance with a tag, the method comprising: arranging the online entity to be rated by a plurality of raters in accordance with the tag; assigning a rater's score to the raters rating the online entity with the tag, to establish reputation of the raters; assigning a tag score to the online entity, the tag score depending on i) ratings provided by the raters to the online entity in accordance with the tag, and ii) the reputation of all raters rating the online entity with the tag, wherein assigning a tag score to the online entity is established through a raters/entities tag matrix associated with a graph connecting the raters and the online entity, wherein assigning a rater's score to a rater Y rating the entity with a tag T is computed as a function of i) ratings given to the rater Y, ii) reputation of raters of the rater Y for each tag matrix of many tag matrices, and iii) relationship between the many tag matrices and tag matrix T.