Method and system for ascribing a reputation to an entity as a rater of other entities

Abstract

A method and system for ascribing a reputation of an entity as a rater of other entities is provided. A first rating indicative of a rating of a rated entity by the first entity, and one or more second ratings, each second rating indicative of a rating of the rated entity provided by another entity, are provided. The second ratings are combined to produce a first combined rating. The first rating is compared to the first combined rating to produce a first rating predictability of the first rating, the first rating predictability being a negative function of a magnitude of a difference between the first rating and the first combined rating. A resulting rater reputation is generated based at least in part on the first rating predictability.

Description

RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §120 of U.S. application Ser. No. 09 / 710,008, titled “Method And System For Ascribing A Reputation To An Entity As A Rater Of Other Entities,” filed on Nov. 10, 2000, which claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e) of commonly-owned, U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60 / 209,059, titled, “Determining a Reputation of an Entity”, filed Jun. 2, 2000, both of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. [0002] Further, each of the following related commonly-owned U.S. patent applications: “Method and System for Ascribing a Reputation to an Entity from the Perspective of Another Entity” by Giorgos Zacharia, “System and Method for Estimating the Impacts of Multiple Ratings on a Result” by Giorgos Zacharia, “System and Method for Ascribing a Reputation to an Entity” by Giorgos Zacharia, and “System and Method for Recursively Estimating a Reputation of an Entity” by Giorgos Zacharia,...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

This approach effectively reduces fraud by assessing the trustworthiness of entities as raters, ensuring that high ratings from reliable entities have more impact and preventing entities from artificially inflating their reputation, thereby enhancing trust in electronic exchanges.

Problems solved by technology

Thus, an entity may receive high ratings from other entities and thus have a high single-valued reputation, although the entity is a poor rater of other entities and thus should not truly have a high reputation as a rater of other entities.

Therefore, Sporas does not provide a method or system for determining and maintaining a rater reputation of an entity.

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