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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2009
Shin-yan Chiou, Hsinchu, TW;
Shih-ying Chang, Hsinchu, TW;
Ghita Mezzour, Pittsburg, PA (US);
Adrian Perrig, Pittsburg, PA (US);
Hung-min Sun, Hsinchu, TW;
Shin-Yan Chiou, Hsinchu, TW;
Shih-Ying Chang, Hsinchu, TW;
Ghita Mezzour, Pittsburg, PA (US);
Adrian Perrig, Pittsburg, PA (US);
Hung-Min Sun, Hsinchu, TW;
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
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.