FINANCIAL EXPERTS

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
FINANCIAL EXPERTS NETWORK	Dickson Consulting	134 S. Highland Ave Pittsburgh PA 15206	FINANCIAL EXPERTS;Educational services, namely, providing non-downloadable webinars for individual investors and financial advisors delivered by financial experts on a range of financial topics;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

The system and method analyzes activities of users in a recommender system to identify experts. Two types of experts may be identified: authoritative experts and hub experts. An authoritative expert is a user who creates items or documents in a given field that are acted upon by a large number of users within a community who are well connected in the given field. A hub expert is a user who is aware of important items or documents within a given field and uses, works or acts upon items or documents produced by authoritative experts. The system and method also identifies authoritative items (e.g., documents). An authoritative item or document is one which has been acted upon by a large number of users within a community who are well connected in the given field (i.e., hub experts).