Patent Document ID: 7831455
Application ID: 11716365
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for posting ideas from clients of tenants to a website, the method comprising: sending a web page from a host system to a client machine, the web page including at least one of an option for posting an idea, an option for viewing an idea already posted, an option for casting a vote for an idea posted; receiving from a client machine, at least one of a new idea for posting, a comment on a previously posted idea and a vote for a previously posted idea; and determining, by the host system, a Total Qualitative Management Criterion (TQMC) for each posted idea for each tenant of the web site, by applying an increasing function of time to newer votes to enable relative weightings of older votes to diminish over time without requiring computing a decaying time function to determine weightings for each vote.