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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2005
Luis A. Von Ahn Arellano, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Eric D. Brill, Redmond, WA (US);
John C. Platt, Redmond, WA (US);
Josh Benaloh, Redmond, WA (US);
Luis A. von Ahn Arellano, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Eric D. Brill, Redmond, WA (US);
John C. Platt, Redmond, WA (US);
Josh Benaloh, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates an interactive game-powered search engine that serve the purposes of both users who may be looking for information as well as game participants who may desire to earn some reward or level of enjoyment by playing the game. More specifically, the system and method provides feedback to a user based on the user's input string or a string derived therefrom. The feedback can be a response or answer to the user's input in the form of text, an image, audio or sound, video, and/or a URL that is provided by one or more game participants when there is some degree of consistency or agreement between the responses or when individual players have demonstrated good reliability in their responses.