MANAGING USER RATINGS IN A WEB SERVICES ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Systems and methods for managing user ratings in a web services environment. A method includes storing a comment associated with a web service and storing an influence rating associated with an author of the comment. The method also includes transmitting information associated with the web service, the comment, and the influence rating to a user. Additionally, the method includes receiving feedback from the user, and determining an updated influence rating based upon the feedback and the influence rating.

主权项

1. A computer program product comprising a tangible computer usable storage memory or device having a computer readable program embodied in the tangible computer usable storage memory or device, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computing device is operable such that the computing device:
provides a service oriented architecture comprising a first database and a second database of a Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) registry, wherein the first database is linked to the second database, and the second database of the UDDI registry comprises data entries that include information about web services; stores a user comment concerning at least one web service of the web services in the first database; determines an influence rating associated with an author of the user comment, wherein the influence rating is determined by a user score manager (USM) that interacts with the first database and an interface, and the USM is stored and executed on the UDDI registry; stores in the first database the influence rating associated with the author of the user comment; receives a search query from a user for information about the at least one web service of the web services; retrieves the information, the user comment, and the influence rating associated with the at least one web service of the web services; receives feedback from the user regarding the user comment; and determines an updated influence rating based upon the feedback and the influence rating.