Authority-Based Content Filtering via Contributor Credential Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for determining authority on the Internet rely on social attributes and popularity, lacking direct linkage to real-life credentials of content contributors, which can lead to unreliable filtering of information.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for authority-based content filtering that receives documents from a search, determines the contributors, queries their credentials, calculates credential scores, and ranks them based on these scores to filter and sort documents, ensuring that only trusted, authoritative content is returned.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If social attributes (volume of content, following, popularity) are used to determine authority, then the system is easy to operate and implement, but the reliability of authority determination deteriorates because it lacks linkage to real-life credentials
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary authority verification system that connects Internet content to real-life credentials through institutional verification. This mediator (the authority verification mechanism) bridges the gap between social media presence and actual expertise by requiring verification from recognized institutions, thereby maintaining ease of operation while significantly improving reliability of authority determination
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary verification of contributor credentials before allowing content publication. By checking real-life credentials and authority status in advance through institutional verification, the system ensures that only verified authorities can publish content, resolving the contradiction by establishing reliability upfront while keeping the operational process simple for users
2Ease of manufacture
If any content can be published without approval to maintain ease of publishing, then publishing is as easy as copying files, but the quality and trustworthiness of information deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service authority verification where contributors automatically have their credentials verified by institutional databases when they register. This automated self-verification process maintains ease of publishing (contributors simply register) while ensuring reliability through automatic credential checking without requiring manual approval of each publication
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary credential verification during the registration process rather than requiring approval for each publication. This preliminary action establishes the contributor's authority status before publishing begins, allowing easy publishing for verified users while ensuring information trustworthiness through pre-verification
3Device complexity
If search results are filtered by popularity rather than authority, then the search system is simple to implement, but the relevance and quality of results for specialized topics deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the search result ranking into multiple dimensions: popularity metrics and authority metrics. By dividing the ranking system into separate components that can be independently calculated and combined, the system maintains simplicity (each component is simple) while improving precision (both dimensions are considered) through weighted combination of popularity and verified authority
Data Source
AI summary
A method and associated system for processing content, including document, received from a search of information. A subject of each received document is determined. A contributor who is associated with, and is not an author of, each respective document is determined. Each contributor is queried as to a veracity of each respective document, after which a communication from each contributor verifying the veracity of each respective document is received. An education type of an author of each respective document is classified as being formal education, self-taught, or experience as indicative of an expertise level of the author of each respective document. A plurality of credentials of each contributor is received and confirmed. Prior to the subject of each received document having been determined, signatures are published to the Internet. The signatures include signed content of each respective document signed by the contributor associated with each respective document.