It is the object of the instant invention to provide a better system of data control, software, or other method, apparatus(es) or devices, to have institutions or individual participants better tailor themselves or their products or services to the needs of the marketplace, consumers or recipients, and the needs of themselves. This is especially useful due to the increasingly knowledge based demand of the world economy. The instant invention may be used in the offering of any product or service, knowledge, information or entity of value. Aspects of the instant invention may be used independently from one another in whole or in part and this invention may be used with any entity capable of analytical and communication processes, including individuals or groups of people such as corporations or other institutions or even machines or software programs. A preferred embodiment of the instant invention comprises a method, process and/ or device(s) which records or recognizes data and/or measures and evaluates the accuracy, quality, or correctness of information , knowledge, or other product provided by an entity capable of analytical and communication processes, so that analysis and decisions may be made and then actions taken to improve the ability of those entities to provide information service(s), or other products which better serve the market, themselves or others. The instant invention teaches that a System (we will use a capital S on the word System when referring to the System of the instant invention herein) including a universal, (covering a whole or whichever systems of communication it has access to) or limited data bank may be established to record, evaluate, and/or measure the integrity, correctness, and/or quality of the output of an information, knowledge, or other product provider over a lifetime, a career, or within limited aspects such as a single presentation or group of presentations. This will foster similar benefits to those derived by a financial credit tracking and reporting databank and service. Data may be captured and/or otherwise evaluated or used for any purpose(s) taught by the present disclosure from any performance or participation of any entity such as including but not limited to any exchange, expression, presentation, communication of, communication about, providing, transfer, production, delivery, receipt, or exposure to any knowledge, information, product, and/or entity(ies) of value A narrow Embodiment of the System is described below, where the data is all processed within the system. This shows the most efficient economy of use of the data in the System. However, in other embodiments of the System, data may be collected or gathered from sources outside of the System. Here is a data process or method of utilizing data in accordance with the System as taught herein: 1. A Buyer or Seeker (Recipient) of information or knowledge, product(s) or entity of value poses a question or problem to be answered, or makes a request for information or product(s). He may set limits, parameters, including price limit(s) and sets particular accreditation (accreditation is established by the system as described below) requirements of the provider. 2. The information, knowledge, or product provider responds (or makes an offer to anyone he considers a potential buyer seeker, or Recipient on his own initiative), by making a bid or offer to provide the information , knowledge, or product sought, on terms he is willing to accept. The providerâs relevant accreditation is provided to the seeker or buyer. 3. Thus an auction or bid, offer or request and acceptance process is taking place. For the purpose of this example buyer or seeker accepts offer. 4. The information, knowledge or product provider returns the result of work to the buyer or seeker and for the purpose of this example, the Recipient accepts the work. 5. The Recipient gives an approval rating which affects or is factored into providers accreditation. 6. Data capture is performed upon the substance of the transaction . If the work of the provider involved multiple tasks, then for purposes of categorizing the work, a record may be kept of individual tasks or smaller groups of tasks completed. A measure of correctness, accuracy , and quality of work may also be computed from this data ( optionally using separate evaluation and rating participants or systems, than the Recipient in step 5, because recipients cannot always be relied upon to correctly evaluate their provider(s)). Various methods or means may be used within the System to evaluate and monitor the honesty, integrity, input and output of the participants. For example, to measure the correctness, accuracy, efficiency and thoroughness, or otherwise evaluate rate or credit the input or output of any participants of the System, compensation or even a reward may be offered or given to other users or participants of the System who find deficiencies with the input or output of any other participants. Compensation may be in the form of System accreditation or credits (which may serve to pay for utilization of the System or parts thereof or services performed by participants of the system) or anything of value such as but not limited to common financial monetary currencies or credit used by other institutions. 7. The data processed in Step 6, is used to affect accreditation of the provider as well as using it for future matching of seeker(s) or buyer(s) to provider (as in Steps 1 and 2 above) . (For the purpose of this example the following steps may take place. This would yield a high economy of multiple uses, for the data captured by the system. However, in other examples, none, any or all of the following steps may take place.) 8. The data captured above may be used to inform or suggest to the provider(s) of information and/or to the buyer(s), how he may improve, expand, or diversify his skills and expertise, repertoire, knowledge or available information to better serve the buyers, seekers, and receivers of his product and his own interests in the future. Such improvement or betterment activities may be termed, education, and may be in the form of lessons, tutoring, or other types of exercises or programs. The participant may receive further credit or accreditation for any learning or educational work that he participates in. Thus the System of the Instant Invention, provides a system of education and learning that is more efficiently tailored to the needs of society and the individual receivers and providers of services, than heretofore available with traditional institutionally established curricula of learning (which has generally been required as necessary for accreditation). 9. The data captured above may also be used to cross link and associate work from various providers and/or associate and combine the needs of the various seekers or buyers, as well as identify opportunities for fruitful collaboration of providers to yield a greater benefit to all. (Demonstration of the surprisingly enormous benefits of this System will be given in further disclosure) The example given herein above, of a Data System Process of the Instant Invention, is given here to help demonstrate how a System of this type, performed in an iterative manner, can provide a standardized system of accreditation, and broaden the use of and more effectively and efficiently utilize our human resources, on a scale that has been heretofore unavailable. This narrow example has been given here only to simplify description of the instant invention at this point and in no way should be considered to narrow the scope of the invention. Some step(s) may be deleted or performed in an order other than those indicated by the step numbers given above. Data which is captured and/or any evaluation(s) or accreditation(s) regarding any participant(s) or entity(ies) may be used cumulatively for any of the purposes taught herein by the present disclosure. Such data, evaluation(s) and/or accreditation(s) may be specific to an individual participant or entity or from a plurality of participants or entities for the purposes of the present disclosure. Such data, evaluation(s) and/or accreditation(s) may then be disseminated in any performance or participation as described above or elsewhere for purposes such as including but not limited to, raising the level(s) of confidence of receivers, matching between providers and receivers, education, and cross linking of entities or participants, etc⦠By using data captured or learned by the System (such as in the steps described above) regarding the demands or expected demands of the marketplace and/or ( optionally in a preferred embodiment) information on the providers prior accreditation, mastery or skill set in (a) specific area(s) of expertise, and/or overall or restricted measure of aptitude, the System may be used to guide the individual provider or responder to receive education.
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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCUMULATING
ACCREDITATION
BACKGROUND
Field of the Disclosure
The present disclosure relates generally to accreditation and, more specifically, to systems and methods for accumulating accreditation. Description of Background Art
In recent years, wide scale communication systems and wide area networks such as the Internet have proliferated and become widely adopted in homes, businesses and government. These systems have greatly increased the rapid and facile dissemination,
communication and exchange of information regarding products, services, and knowledge generally. However, use of these systems has not been without problems and limitations. Incorrect, unreliable, shoddy and even fraudulent material is often transferred over these systems, without some or all of the readers or recipients of the incorrect or fraudulent information aware that this information is unreliable and unworthy of consideration.
Lack of integrity in the services, products and information that is posted or available in one form or another on the Internet or elsewhere leaves great room for improvement. It would be of the greatest use to attack these problems on a much more
universal and root level than the rudimentary feedback systems used on such websites as eBay, as these attempts are merely local efforts to address the "lack of integrity" problem in a very limited and insufficient way. For example, those with bad feedback
ratings on eBay can still open accounts on other sites and obtain a "clean slate" with impunity, despite being outright thieves.
Others have developed evaluation or rating systems for persons, products, businesses and/or services (for example U.S. Patent No. 6,064,978; U.S. Patent No. 6,434,549; feedback on Linkedin.com, Customer dispute reports on BBBonline, etc.) However, none of these systems can capture, store, process, filter, compile and present evaluations of an entity (e.g., any thing, product, person, group, service and/or activity) across a variety of websites and computer networks and present those evaluations in a organized, intelligent and useful way, analogous to a Dunn & Bradstreet report, not limited to financial information/credit worthiness, but that presents the quality, trustworthiness, and/or accuracy of a product, person, service, entity, group or system. Further, none of the present evaluation systems analyze evaluations and use that analysis to recommend specific types of education or methods of self-improvement. Nor do these types of systems use data or information gathered from such evaluations to coordinate or match persons, groups, entities, products or systems for benefits that become apparent with the disclosure herein.
SUMMARY
This application describes tools (in the form of methodologies, apparatuses, and systems) for accumulating accreditation. The tools may be embodie...