Patent attributes
An experience rating and skill discovery system (ERSDS) and a method for determining credibility of experience ratings provided by one or more reviewers and discovering skills of opportunity seekers based on a relationship between the reviewers and the opportunity seekers are provided. A skill profile module of the ERSDS reads profile data from a user profile list and generates a skills profile list. An invitation module transmits invitations to reviewer devices for providing the experience ratings. An aggregation module aggregates the experience ratings and generates an aggregated experience credibility measure and an aggregated experience plausibility measure, and further an aggregated skill amount measure and an aggregated skill credibility measure corresponding to the experience summaries in an experience summary list and the skills of the opportunity seeker respectively, using a relationship depth computed from the relationship data and the experience ratings received by a user association module and a rating module respectively.
