Feedback based technique towards total completion of task in crowdsourcing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9727881-B2
Application number	US-201213350965-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 16, 2012
Priority date	Jan 16, 2012
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for incenting potential contributors for creating content in response to a posting. The method comprises: posting a task to a first crowdsource with the task having a first expiry period of δ 1 ; waiting for δ 1 period to expire; determining whether the task is complete; reposting the task if not complete including a second expiry period of δ 2 ; waiting for the second period of δ 2 to expire; reposting the task if not yet complete including an increased reward and a third expiry period of δ 3 ; waiting for the third period of δ 3 to expire; and, reposting the task if still not complete, wherein the reposting includes a second crowdsource.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for incenting potential contributors for creating content, the method comprising:
providing a crowdsourcing application to a requestor for exposing an application programming interface to the requestor;
acquiring a task at a content distributor sent from a requestor computing device over a computer network, the content distributor comprising a processor and a memory that stores a design and distribution module for designing tasks based on design parameters including at least one of a reward per instance, expiry time, worker qualification requirements, a total number of instances, redundancy per task, and a number of assignments per instance and a monitor module for polling a progress of the tasks, wherein the processor;
designs the task based on at least one design parameter for posting to a crowdsource;
in response to a δ 1 period expiring after the task being posted to the crowdsource, generates a status of content submitted by content contributors through an interface in communication with the content distributor;
in response to the status indicating the task being incomplete at the δ 1 period, redesigns the task by changing at least one design parameter;
provides the redesigned task to the requestor computing device over the network with at least a second δ 2 period to expire;
wherein the redesigned task causes the application to display on the requestor computing device and enables the requester to repost the redesigned task to the crowdsource from a web portal.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the posting and the reposting over are done in batches and said batches represent a portion of said task.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein each δ n period for expiration is greater than a δ n+1 subsequent period for expiration.

4. A method for incenting potential contributors for creating content, the method comprising:
providing a crowdsourcing application to a requestor for exposing an application programming interface to the requestor;
acquiring a task and completion time at a content distributor sent from a requestor computing device over a computer network, the content distributor comprising tasks based on design parameters including at least one of a reward per instance, expiry time, worker qualification requirements, a total number of instances, redundancy per task, and a number of assignments per instance and a monitor module for polling a progress of the tasks, wherein the processor;
designs the task based on at least one design parameter for posting to a crowdsource in at least two batches in incremental periods of time;
in response to a δ 1 period expiring after the first batch being posted to the crowdsource, generates a status of content submitted by content contributors through an interface in communication with the content distributor;
in response to the status indicating the first batch being incomplete at the δ 1 period, redesigns the task by changing a period for expiration associated with the first batch;
provides the redesigned task to the requestor computing device over the network with at least a second δ 2 period for the first batch to expire;
wherein the redesigned task causes the application to display on the requestor computing device and enables the requester to repost the first batch and a second batch to the crowdsource from a web portal.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the processor further monitors the status of the batches after at least two combined periods of expiration; and,
redesigns the task for reposting an unfinished portion of at least one batch over the network with an increased reward.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein each δ n period for expiration is greater than a δ n+1 subsequent period for expiration.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the processor further monitors the status of the batches after at least two combined periods of expiration; and,
redesigns the task for reposting an unfinished portion of at least one batch over the network to an alternative crowdsource.

8. A method for incenting potential contributors for creating content, the method comprising:
providing a crowdsourcing application to a requestor for exposing an application programming interface to the requestor;
acquiring a task and completion time at a content distributor sent from a requestor computing device over a computer network, the content distributor comprising a processor and a memory that stores a design and distribution module for designing tasks based on design parameters including at least one of a reward per instance, expiry time, worker qualification requirements, a total number of instances, redundancy per task, and a number of assignments per instance and a monitor module for polling a progress of the tasks, wherein the processor;
a) designs the task based on at least one design parameter for posting to a crowdsource;
b) in response to a predetermined period expiring after the task being posted to the crowdsource, generates a status of content submitted by content contributors through an interface in communication with the content distributor;
c) in response to the status indicating the task being incomplete at the predetermined period, redesigns the task by changing an expiration period;
d) provides the redesigned task to the requestor computing device over the network with a new period to expire;
e) repeats steps b)-d) until the task is completed or the completion time is reached;
wherein each redesigned task causes the application to display on the requestor computing device and enables the requester to repost the each redesigned task to the crowdsource from a web portal.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the processor further
redesigns the task after each expiration period in response to the task being incomplete, wherein redesigned task enables a reposting of an incomplete portion of the task to a second crowdsource.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the posting and the repostings are done in batches and said batches represent a portion of said task.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the processor further
monitors the status of the task after at least two combined periods of expiration; and,
redesigns the task for reposting an unfinished portion of the task over the network to an alternative crowdsource.

12. A system for incenting potential contributors for creating content, the system comprising:
a content distributor comprising a memory and a processor in communication with the memory for designing tasks based on design parameters including at least one of a reward per instance, expiry time, worker qualification requirements, a total number of instances, redundancy per task, and a number of assignments per instance and for polling a progress of the tasks, wherein the processor;
provides a crowdsourcing application to a requestor for exposing an application programming interface to the requestor;
acquires a task sent from a requestor computing device over a computer network;
designs the task based on at least one design parameter for posting to a crowdsource;
in response to a δ 1 period expiring after the task being posted to the crowdsource, generates a status of content submitted by content contributors through an interface in communication with the content distributor;
in response to the status indicating the task being incomplete at the δ 1 period, redesigns the task by changing at least one design parameter; and
provides the redesigned task to the requestor computing device over the network with at least a second δ 2 period to expire;
wherein the redesigned task causes the application to display on the requestor computing device and ena

Assignees

• Roy Shourya
• Gujar Sujit
• Xerox Corp

Inventors

• Roy Shourya
• Gujar Sujit

Classifications

• G06Q30/02 Primary

  Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising · CPC title