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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2008
Jonathan Paul Diller, Soquel, CA (US);
Sunny Sunmin Song, Los Altos, CA (US);
Harish Bal Kotbagi, Foster City, CA (US);
Jonathan Paul Diller, Soquel, CA (US);
Sunny SunMin Song, Los Altos, CA (US);
Harish Bal Kotbagi, Foster City, CA (US);
Elance, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of and system for ranking users by reputation enables better searching for a service provider. Service providers are also forced to conform to reputation requirements since they are published. The reputation requirements include reviews, earnings, duration on a site, recent visits and other components that are able to establish a user's reputation. The components are also weighted so that more important factors count more towards a user's reputation. By combining a search score and a reputation score, a total score is determined which is used to generate a list of results ordered based on the total score.