Nagaraj Srinivasan

The present invention is directed to methods and systems which provide a comprehensive rating and ranking of products and services. Furthermore, aspects of the present invention provides a complete review of products and services, as well as rankings of semantic and non-semantic reviews, which provides a "true" reflection of a product and/or service. As such, a calculation of a product/supplier rating based on all of its social entity contexts, is performed. This takes into account factors… Show more

The present invention is directed to methods and systems which provide a comprehensive rating and ranking of products and services. Furthermore, aspects of the present invention provides a complete review of products and services, as well as rankings of semantic and non-semantic reviews, which provides a "true" reflection of a product and/or service. As such, a calculation of a product/supplier rating based on all of its social entity contexts, is performed. This takes into account factors like, author (of social entity context) credibility, non-semantic (direct) rating, semantic rating calculated from the textual content of the social entity context, the community based credibility of the social entity context, and the like. Then, the community based credibility of a given social entity context is in turn calculated.

Filed on: 2010-06-03; Application Number: 12793375
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A computer system for retrieving and providing procurement information from a plurality of social network entities associated with an enterprise social network, comprising:


one or more processors; and

a memory communicatively coupled with and readable by the one or more processors and having stored therein an enterprise application which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
provide a user interface for receiving input from a… Show more

A computer system for retrieving and providing procurement information from a plurality of social network entities associated with an enterprise social network, comprising:


one or more processors; and

a memory communicatively coupled with and readable by the one or more processors and having stored therein an enterprise application which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
provide a user interface for receiving input from a user;
provide a user profile for a user, the user profile being stored at the enterprise social network, the user being associated with a plurality of network entities, the user profile including a first plurality of user attributes, the network entities including enterprise entities and social network entities;
retrieve entity attributes from each of the network entities;
process entity attributes;
determine entity types for network entities;
provide a first access setting for the enterprise entities, the first access setting being associated with a first security level;
provide a second access setting for the social network entities, the second access setting being associated with a second security level;
receive, at the user interface, one or more queries for procurement;
process the one or more queries;
generate a search setting related to the one or more queries, the search settings being based at least on the user attributes, entity attributes, and the one or more queries;
access the network entities in accordance to the search settings;
generate a first set of query results from the enterprise entities;
generate a second set of query results from the social network entities;
generate a search report, the search report including information from the first set of query results and the second set of query results; and
display, at the user interface, the search report.
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