Patent Document ID: 9387391
Application ID: 12901291

Base Claim:
1. A system for scoring a comparison of ranked items associated with a topic selected by a first user, comprising: a processor; a topic module configured to cooperate with the processor to retrieve, over a communication network, one or more potential topics based on information stored in a social data repository of a first user, and receive a topic selection from the first user, the topic selection identifying a topic selected by the first user from the one or more potential topics; a GUI module configured to cooperate with the processor to present items associated with the topic to the first user to enable the first user to input a first ranking of a first set of the items according to a subjective preference of the first user and present the items to (i) a second user to enable the second user to input a second ranking of a second set of the items, and (ii) a third user to enable the third user to input a third ranking of the second set of the items; a ranking module configured to cooperate with the processor to receive (i) the first ranking of the first set of the items by the first user, (ii) the second ranking of the second set of the items by the second user, and (iii) the third ranking of the second set of the items by the third user; and a scoring module configured to cooperate with the processor to determine a first game score based on a comparison of the second ranking relative to the first ranking, and a second game score based on a comparison of the third ranking relative to the first ranking, the scoring module further configured to present an award based, at least in part, on a comparison of the first game score and the second game score.

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Claim 7:
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second ranking received from the second user is based on what the second user guesses other users will rank the second set of items.