Patent Document ID: 7865452
Application ID: 12491133

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising steps of: receiving one or more answer submissions at an online answer submission system that accepts, from multiple users, answers to questions submitted to the online answer submission system by users other than those that submitted the one or more answer submissions; processing a set of previously scored training submissions, thereby training a machine learning mechanism to score, automatically, a plurality of submissions that are submitted by users of a system; scoring a particular submission of said plurality of submissions automatically using the machine learning mechanism, thereby producing a score; and performing, relative to the particular submission, an action that is determined based on said score; wherein said previously scored training submissions are also answers to questions submitted to the online answer submission system; wherein said steps are performed by one or more computing devices.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein training the machine learning mechanism comprises training the machine learning mechanism based on information that was extracted from a search engine's analysis of search results that resulted from a web search query, wherein the information comprises at least one of: (a) a number of sites occurring within a specified set of search results that have been classified as adult sites, and (b) a number of links within a specified set of search results that have been classified as spam links.