Industrial Technology Research Institute

Ghita Mezzour

Hung-Min Sun

Shih-Ying Chang

Shin-Yan Chiou

Adrian Perrig

A network reputation system and its controlling method are provided. A credential and exchange component permits a user to generate credentials and exchange matching items with those persons having a social relationship with the user. A reputation evaluation component enables other users to make evaluations about an estimatee via the sharing of social network information. A query and response component receives a query from a person having a social relationship with the user for requesting an evaluation about the estimatee, and responds with an associated evaluation result to the person having a social relationship with the user, via the sharing of social network information and the evaluations made by the other users about the estimatee.

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Ghita Mezzour