Apparatus, systems and methods for scoring the reliability of online information

Abstract

The apparatus, systems and methods dynamically provide the reliability of multimedia documents by applying a series of intrinsic criteria and extrinsic criteria by pre-calculating a reliability score for at least a set of multimedia documents of at least one pre-selected source of multimedia documents, and by providing, in response to a request, the multimedia documents from the pre-selected sources associated with the score and the multimedia documents from the other sources associated with a score conditionally calculated.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method to provide a customer with at least one multimedia document associated with a reliability score calculated by applying a first category of intrinsic criteria in realtime then a second category of extrinsic criteria, the method comprising initial steps of pre-calculating the reliability score for at least a set of multimedia documents coming from at least one pre-selected source of multimedia documents, and later steps of providing, in response to a request, the multimedia documents from the pre-selected sources associated with the score and the multimedia documents from the other sources associated with a score conditionally calculated. 
     
     
         2 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising updating this reliability score by applying the extrinsic criteria. 
     
     
         3 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising activating a calculation of the score for the multimedia documents from the other sources by an action from the customer. 
     
     
         4 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising activating a calculation of the score for the multimedia documents from the other sources by the detection of at least one request coming from the customer's device in the case of getting multimedia documents without a pre-calculated score. 
     
     
         5 . The method according to  claim 3  wherein the score of multimedia documents coming from the other sources are pre-calculated when a threshold of interest is reached. 
     
     
         6 . The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising prioritizing the processing of pre-calculation of the reliability score of the multimedia documents within a pre-selected source according to an interest indicator. 
     
     
         7 . The method according to  claim 6  further comprising weighting the interest indicator by the number of requests. 
     
     
         8 . The method according to  claim 6  further comprising weighting the interest indicator by the measure of engagements. 
     
     
         9 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising time-stamping the reliability scores and associating the scores to the related time-stamped version of the multimedia documents. 
     
     
         10 . The method according to  claim 9  wherein when a discrepancy is detected between the time-stamp of the reliability score and the time-stamp of the related document, the pre-processing of the multimedia document is updated. 
     
     
         11 . The method according to  claim 10  further comprising performing the detection of the discrepancy by the customer's device. 
     
     
         12 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising computing the representation of the scored documents by the customer's device by an aggregation of the multimedia documents coming from sources servers and the related scores coming from the score processing server. 
     
     
         13 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising performing the multimedia document acquisition by the customer's device and the score processing server. 
     
     
         14 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising computing, for at least one source, a global reliability score for the source, based on the reliability score of its multimedia documents. 
     
     
         15 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising computing, for at least one source, a global reliability score for the source, based on the number of visionary multimedia documents that it has published. 
     
     
         16 . The method according to  claim 1  wherein the global reliability score of the source dynamically evolves in time. 
     
     
         17 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising filtering in order to block the displaying of multimedia documents with a reliability score below a certain threshold. 
     
     
         18 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising filtering, according to a white list, to exclude the checking for an existing reliability score for the multimedia documents coming from the sources not belonging to the white list. 
     
     
         19 . The method according to  claim 1  further comprising filtering, according to a black list, to exclude the checking for an existing reliability score for documents coming from the sources not belonging to the black list. 
     
     
         20 . A computer readable medium operable to execute the following steps on a processor of a computer, the computer readable medium comprising:
 pre-calculating the reliability score for at least a set of multimedia documents coming from at least one pre-selected source of multimedia documents; and   providing, in response to a request, the multimedia documents from the pre-selected sources associated with the updated score and the multimedia documents from the other sources associated with a score conditionally calculated.   
     
     
         21 . The computer readable medium according to  claim 20  wherein it is operable to execute at least an additional step of updating this reliability score by applying the extrinsic criteria. 
     
     
         22 . A system for the processing of information to provide a customer with at least one multimedia document associated with a reliability score calculated by applying a first category of intrinsic criteria and a second category of extrinsic criteria, comprising:
 a source of a machine-readable specification of intrinsic criteria and a extrinsic criteria; and   at least one server engine, coupled with a user interface engine and with the source of a machine-readable specification, the server engine including resources to browse document sources in order to get newly published multimedia documents and to process the first steps for the pre-calculating the reliability score for at least one set of multimedia documents coming from at least one pre-selected source of multimedia documents, and steps of providing, in response to a request, the multimedia documents from the pre-selected sources associated with the updated score and the multimedia documents from the other sources associated with a score conditionally calculated.