Platform System

Abstract

In a networkable platform system for collecting and processing information in a network comprising a plurality of real access-authorized contributors, new processing procedures and a new analysis of information are made possible by the feature to the effect that the information on the platform is formed by a plurality of dual units, wherein each dual unit comprises a public discussion and a predefinable processing criterion assigned to said public discussion.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This is a Continuation-in-Part of PCT / DE2012 / 100250, filed Aug. 28, 2012, and entitled “Platform System” and benefit is claimed of U.S. 61 / 564460, filed Nov. 29, 2011, and entitled “Platform Systems” and U.S. 61 / 786,876, filed Mar. 15, 2013, and entitled “Platform System A Platform for Focused Discussion”, and priority is claimed of DE 10 2011 111 381.2, filed Aug. 29, 2011, the disclosures of which four applications are incorporated by reference herein in their entireties as if set forth at length.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The purpose of the invention is to support focused public discussion on a specific topic, in order that a group discussion can proceed on fruitful lines, instead of being diverted or side-tracked into irrelevant directions. In particular, this invention can be used to facilitate collaborative development of a new document, or of a solution to a specific problem.[0003]The term “crowd sourcing” is used to describe...

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Benefits of technology

[0006]What is needed is a platform and method for screening contributed comments to a discussion, to ensure that they are on-topic and not offensive. Such a technique of processing, customarily realized by means of electronic filters, need not be perfectly accurate in order to be useful in preventing the discussion from being drowned in irrelevancies. Off-topic comments that escape the vetting can still be removed from the commentarial history at a later date; but even if only a majority of such irrelevancies can be prevented from contaminating the discussion, faster progress can be made than would otherwise be the case.

[0013]In the case of the platform system of the invention, the combination of features to the effect that the information on the platform is formed by a plurality of dual units wherein each dual unit comprises a public discussion and a predefinable processing criterion assigned to said public discussion has the result that the formation of dual units enables information to be processable with reference to very specific processing instructions, modified, and then stored, the information being partitioned to form various public discussions with assigned processing criteria.

[0014]According to a first preferred embodiment of the system of the invention, provision is made to the effect that a processing criterion is realized in form of an electronic filter, enabling an identification of processing themes and processing criteria by means of predefined keywords and agglomerations of predefined keywords.

[0015]According to a second preferred embodiment of the system of the invention, provision is made to the effect that each contributor can gain access to the dual units, in order to make each public discussion processable by each contributor in the light of the processing criterion assigned to each public discussion.

[0017]According to an alternative preferred embodiment of the system of the invention, provision is made to the effect that a dual unit can be partitioned to form two or more dual units by assignment of at least one further public discussion to a first processing criterion on the part of one of the contributors.

Problems solved by technology

However, the prior platform systems suffer from the drawback that a specific selection of predefinable links and links that are executable according to predefinable criteria cannot be realized.

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