US Patent Issued to Applied Decision Research on March 11 for "Systems and methods for using crowd sourcing to score online content as it relates to a belief state" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,481, issued on March 11, was assigned to Applied Decision Research LLC (Middletown, Del.).

"Systems and methods for using crowd sourcing to score online content as it relates to a belief state" was invented by Richard Kim (Stanford, Calif.) and Travis Trammell (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: during a first time period, obtaining one or more first content ratings of a particular content item from one or more first users, each first content rating defining a first user measure of a belief state of the particular content item; and generating a first content score for the particular content item, th...