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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:
Dec. 03, 2013

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2012
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yuk L. Chan, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Tin H. To, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Wei Zhou, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Uman Chan, Staten Island, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A mechanism is provided for providing trustworthiness for users of a social network for web sites. The computer listens to web browsing activities of a user, and receives feedback from the user when web browsing by monitoring user actions. monitoring user actions includes monitoring the user searching a peer-to-peer environment and search results obtained, and in response to the user selecting a first link for the search results in the peer-to-peer environment, determining a score for the first link based on the user selecting a second link for the search results. The score for the first link is provided to the users of the social network.


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