Patent Document ID: 8527447
Application ID: 12709765
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for implementing information quality assessment, comprising: receiving, at a computer, a value relating to a predicted outcome of an event from each of an entity and at least one other entity; receiving, at the computer, a reputation score for each of the entity and the at least one other entity; generating, at the computer, a collective prediction value for the event that reflects a collective prediction for the event, the collective prediction value generated from predicted outcome values for the entity and the at least one other entity, the collective prediction value calculated as a function of reputation scores corresponding to the entity and the at least one other entity; comparing, at the computer, the value relating to the predicted outcome for each of the entity and the at least one other entity with a value specifying an actual outcome for the event; determining, at the computer, a prediction error value for each of the entity and the at least one other entity in response to the comparing, the prediction error value reflecting a difference between the value of the predicted outcome and the value of the actual outcome; and using the prediction error value, updating, at the computer, the reputation score for the entity and the at least one other entity, the reputation score representing a measure of the accuracy of the predicted outcome of the event.