| CPC H04N 21/4756 (2013.01) [H04N 21/258 (2013.01)] | 12 Claims |
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1. A computer-implemented method for determining a distribution of digital information within a network comprising:
(a) providing an interface allowing users to submit and receive digital information relating to questions, answers, and posts, wherein an answer provides a response to a question establishing an association between the answer and the question and a post is information not inherently associated with the questions or the answers;
(b) associating knowledge values with the users, each of the knowledge values being associated with one of the users and a topic, the knowledge values used to represent the associated user's level of understanding of the associated topic, wherein each user can be associated with one or more knowledge values;
(c) receiving one or more evaluations, each of the evaluations submitted by one of the users for one of the answers, the evaluations used to represent the submitting user's rating of the evaluated answer with respect to the evaluated answer's associated question;
(d) aggregating a plurality of the evaluations that were submitted for the same answer by different users to derive an overall evaluation of that answer;
(e) increasing one or more of the knowledge values, wherein each of the knowledge values being increased is associated with a user who submitted a favorable evaluation for one of the answers and the overall evaluation of the same answer is also favorable; and
(f) distributing the posts, based on maintaining a positive correlation for each of the posts between the aggregate value of one or more of the knowledge values associated with the user who submitted the post and the number of users who receive the post.
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