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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 08, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Eric J. Barkie, Cary, NC (US);

Scott C. Bosworth, Apex, NC (US);

Benjamin L. Fletcher, Denver, CO (US);

Jacquelyn A. Martino, Cold Spring, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/285 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06Q 10/101 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system and a computer program product are provided for organizing a community based on subject-related contributions by classifying user contributions Ci from a plurality of users in a community according to a plurality of subjects Sj to identify subjects in each user contribution, assembling one or more community quality values for each user that generated the user contribution, computing a subject-based quality rating for each user as a sum of a first contribution score based on community quality values for each user's recent contributions to the identified subject and a second contribution score based on community quality values for the user's past contributions to the identified subject, and ranking the plurality of users based on the subject-based quality ratings.


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