SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR BUILDING INTELLIGENT ON-LINE COMMUNITIES

摘要

The present inventor devised systems, methods, and related software for encouraging and managing growth of databases, particularly theme oriented databases, such as health-information databases. One exemplary method entails establishing a theme-oriented database, receiving user contributions to the database, and granting users access right to the database based on their contributions. The exemplary method also scores user contributions for quality and/or relevance to the theme of the database, and grants access rights based on the scores. Additionally, the exemplary method record the queries of users of the database and facilitate communications between users having similar queries.