Patent Document ID: 8756240
Application ID: 12270676

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving in a content management system first content authored by a first author, the first author having attributes; determining in the content management system that the first author has no assigned rating; in response to determining that the first author has no assigned rating: identifying in the content management system second authors, each second author being a second author from which second content authored by the second author has been received in the content management system, the second author having attributes in common with the first author and not an author of the first content, and wherein the attributes in common with the first author for two or more second authors are different from each other; for each second author, receiving in the content management system a corresponding rating that is assigned to the second author based on user feedback provided to the content management system and a corresponding weight for each attribute; wherein the corresponding weight for a particular attribute common to each second author is the same, and the corresponding weights for different attributes are different; generating in the content management system an initial content rating for the first content based on a combination of the products of the corresponding weights of the attributes of the second authors and the corresponding ratings that are assigned to the second authors; and assigning in the content management system the initial content rating to the first content.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein one of the attributes is a membership of the first author and the second author in a same group, the group being defined by a membership list of authors that are members of the group.