Abstract: A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality of the database information without any substantial management by the website owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form of both comments and ratings about which natural-language terms best describe a particular subject, enabling user searches of the subject database to be by way of preferred such descriptive natural-language terms, which terms are further preferred to be evaluative and approving.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 27, 2006
Publication date:
May 3, 2007
Applicant:
INVOLVE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Inventors:
Gregory Petras, Richard Hill, Andrew Mason, Cory Osborn, Flori Parham, Connie Riffel, Rachael Thomas, Craig Thompson, Jeffrey Zywicki
Abstract: A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality of the database information without any substantial management by the website owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form of both comments and ratings about which natural-language terms best describe a particular subject, enabling user searches of the subject database to be by way of preferred such descriptive natural-language terms, which terms are further preferred to be evaluative and approving.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 10, 2001
Date of Patent:
November 28, 2006
Assignee:
Involve Technology, Inc.
Inventors:
Gregory J. Petras, Richard W. Hill, Andrew F. Mason, Cory Osborn, Flori N. Parham, Connie Riffel, Rachael A. Thomas, Craig P. Thompson, Jeffrey T. Zywicki