Hye Chin Kim

US Patent:

20080086387, Apr 10, 2008

Filed:

Oct 4, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/544020

Inventors:

Dara O'Rourke - Albany CA, US
Kelly Bryant - San Francisco CA, US
Graham Bullock - Berkeley CA, US
Alastair Iles - North Balwyn Victoria, AU
Hye Y. Kim - San Francisco CA, US
Shufei Lei - Alameda CA, US

Assignee:

The Regents of the University of California - Oakland CA

International Classification:

G07F 7/00
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

705 27

Abstract:

In one embodiment, an information-delivery system includes a first mechanism for identifying an entity for which to gather information and providing identity information in response thereto. A second mechanism employs the identity information to retrieve rating information pertaining to the entity, wherein the scoring information includes quantified information pertaining to one or more measures of performance, and the user's ethical preferences. The rating information includes environmental information, health information, and/or social information. The rating information further includes components that are each associated with a user-configurable weight. The second mechanism includes plural data sources, wherein each data source is associated with a user-configurable data-source weight. This allows a user to scan a product, receive information on its social, environmental, and health performance, all screened through the user's personal preferences.