Patent Document ID: 8108926
Application ID: 11288659
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. In a computer-implemented online trust management system having a hardware CPU, a method for managing security in an online collaborative process comprising: receiving, via a network interface comprising one of a Local Area Network (LAN) interface, a wireless network interface, or an Internet network interface, between the computer-implemented online trust management system and one of a plurality of participants communicatively interfaced with the computer-implemented online trust management system via the network interface, a requirement containing trustworthiness properties of a participant; establishing, via an establishing module of the computer-implemented online trust management system, one or more trust parameters relating to the trustworthiness properties of the participant; classifying, via the establishing module, different types of trust parameters into one or more trust domains quantifying, via a trust authority, the trust parameters with a first statistics and probability function to derive a trust parameter value that measures the predictive future trustworthiness of the participants and whether a performance by the participant is more likely in the future, wherein the trusted authority acts as an independent intermediary that secures information related to the trustworthiness properties from the plurality of participants; and aggregating the trust parameter values according to their respective trust parameter's classification onto trust domains to derive a trust domain value for each trust domain, the trust domain value representing a macro-level view of the trustworthiness properties to which the respective trust parameters are related an aggregated reputation value by which the participant may be ranked as compared to other participants in the plurality of participants.