Generating composite trust value scores, and atomic metadata values and associated composite trust value scores using a plurality of algorithms

US8108330B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Chung-Sheng Li · Scarsdale, US
• Ivan M. Milman · Austin, US
• Guenter A. Sauter · Ridgefield, US
• Harald C. Smith · Groveland, US
• Charles D. Wolfson · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 24, 2008
• Grant date: Jan 31, 2012
• Expiry date: Nov 3, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0282
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An approach is provided in which atomic trust scores are computed using a atomic trust factors that are applied to a plurality of metadata. A first set of composite trust scores are computed using some of the atomic trust scores. The composite trust scores are computed using a first set of algorithms. Some of the algorithms use a factor weighting value as input to the algorithm. A second plurality of composite trust scores is computed using some of the composite trust scores that were included in the first set of scores as input. A fact and one of the second set of composite trust scores are presented to a user. The presented composite trust score provides a trustworthiness value that corresponds to the presented fact.