Patent Document ID: 8090673
Application ID: 12802482

Base Claim:
1. A system, comprising: a server configured to assign a trust rating, in response to input from a user source, to a recommender source specifically for a topic, wherein the trust rating represents a degree of trust that the user source has in the recommender source to provide one or more content recommendations of value specifically for the topic, wherein the topic is specified by the input from the user source, determine a recommendation rating for a content recommendation from the one or more content recommendations provided by the recommender source, wherein the content recommendation is for content specified with the topic, and wherein the recommendation rating represents a degree of preference that the recommender source has for the content, and calculate a score for the content recommendation in response to computing the recommendation rating with the trust rating; and a client device configured to receive the input from the user source, provide the input to the server, receive the score from the server, and present the score on a display associated with the client device.

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Claim 3:
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the server is further configured to generate, in response to additional input provided by the user source, a recommendation container configured to receive the content recommendation from the recommender source, wherein the recommender source is within a social network of the user source, and wherein the recommendation container is user definable by the user source, assign the topic to the recommendation container, wherein the topic is defined by the user source, and associate, via the additional input by the user source, the recommender source with the recommendation container.