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Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2010
Applicants:

Lukas A. Biewald, San Francisco, CA (US);

Christopher R. Van Pelt, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lukas A. Biewald, San Francisco, CA (US);

Christopher R. Van Pelt, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Figure Eight Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/0631 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods of crowd sourcing by distributing a task over a network to multiple workers for completion while providing quality control are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of identifying an attribute of the task, the task including multiple unit jobs, determining target accuracy in completion of the task by the multiple workers, computing a number of results to be collected for a unit job of the task based on the target accuracy, setting a wage amount that is offered to a worker for completing a unit job of the task based on the attribute and the target accuracy, and/or collecting and aggregating statistics of the workers completing the select unit jobs for quality control.


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