Patent Document ID: 8150842
Application ID: 12333153

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented online-content management method, comprising: receiving at one or more first computers a plurality of online content items authored by a plurality of authors for online publication; and for each online content item, determining a reputation score for an author of the online content item, where the reputation score is based at least in part on: (a) scores of online content items authored by the author, the scores provided by one or more reviewers other than the author; and (b) an authentication score for the author, the authentication score being a function of determinations made to identify that the author is who the author purports to be; and in response to a query for online content received from a second computer, generating a set of search results including an online content item from the plurality of online content items; and determining a ranking of the online content item in the set based at least in part on a reputation score of the author.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining a reputation score for the author based on one or more reviews of the online content item provided by one or more reviewers further comprises: determining if a reputation score is associated with each of the one or more reviewers; and if a reputation score is associated with one or more reviewers, then basing the reputation score of the author at least in part on the reputation score associated with the one or more reviewers.