Abstract: Providing user status in a computer network includes storing associations of interaction indications to different interaction events, storing values for the interaction indications, and maintaining accounts for users performing the different interaction events. Interaction indications are received via the computer network from terminals associated with the accounts. Each interaction indication identifies a target account. Values of a set of interaction indications are combined using a limiting function that accumulates the values of the set into an accumulated value and progressively limits the accumulated value as the interaction indications in the set increase. An indication of the accumulated value is outputted as a status of the particular target account.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 3, 2019
Date of Patent:
May 25, 2021
Assignee:
IOU CONCEPTS INC.
Inventors:
Colin Duetta, Felix Leung, Michael Salvatori, Ken Bentham
Abstract: Providing user status in a computer network includes storing associations of interaction indications to different interaction events, storing values for the interaction indications, and maintaining accounts for users performing the different interaction events. Interaction indications are received via the computer network from terminals associated with the accounts. Each interaction indication identifies a target account. Values of a set of interaction indications are combined using a limiting function that accumulates the values of the set into an accumulated value and progressively limits the accumulated value as the interaction indications in the set increase. An indication of the accumulated value is outputted as a status of the particular target account.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 10, 2016
Date of Patent:
December 3, 2019
Assignee:
IOU CONCEPTS INC.
Inventors:
Colin Duetta, Felix Leung, Michael Salvatori, Ken Bentham