Method and system for distributing a work process over an information network

DETAILED DESCRIPTION According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of distributing a work process on an information network comprising the steps of: contracting members of a virtual community having access to said information network to perform tasks associated with said work process, said members having an interest in said work process; dispatching tasks to said members requiring said members to evaluate information accessible on said information network; receiving the evaluations of said members; and processing the evaluations to perform said work process.
According to another aspect of the present invention there is provided a system for distributing a work process on an information network comprising: a first subsystem to contract members of a virtual community having access to said information network to perform tasks associated with said work process, said members having an interest in said work process; a second subsystem to dispatch tasks to said members requiring said members to evaluate information accessible on said information network and receive the evaluations of said members; and a third subsystem to process the evaluations to perform said work process.
According to still yet another aspect of the present invention there is provided a method for assigning a generic rating to a directory containing a plurality of documents comprising the steps of: evaluating documents in said directory one at a time and assigning a rating value to said documents; as said quantitative values are assigned to said documents, comparing said rating values; if said rating values are the same and after a predetermined percentage of the total number of documents in said directory have been evaluated, assigning a generic rating value to said directory that is the same as said rating values and ending the document evaluation.
The present invention provides advantages in that information accessible over the information network such as the Internet can be evaluated according to desired criteria