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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2007
Anton Mityagin, Woodinville, WA (US);
Aparna Lakshmiratan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Asela J. Gunawardana, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher A. Meek, Kirkland, WA (US);
David M. Chickering, Bellevue, WA (US);
Paul N. Bennett, Kirkland, WA (US);
Timothy S. Paek, Sammamish, WA (US);
Anton Mityagin, Woodinville, WA (US);
Aparna Lakshmiratan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Asela J. Gunawardana, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher A. Meek, Kirkland, WA (US);
David M. Chickering, Bellevue, WA (US);
Paul N. Bennett, Kirkland, WA (US);
Timothy S. Paek, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods allow an on-line game to extract information relevant to a specific need of a game platform or service platform. The specific need relates to management and use of digital content, and is addressed by designing and playing an on-line collaborative game. The rules of the game intend to solve a specific task dictated by the specific need. Players' responses to the game generate a wealth of information related to a specific task objective, such as ranking, sorting, and evaluating a set of digital content items. To compel participation in a game, players can be rewarded with monetary value rewards. As a game illustration, an image selection game (ISG) that exploits human contextual inference is described in detail. The information extracted from ISG is a list of key-image associations, relevant for the task of image sorting and ranking.