Methods and systems for enabling a credit economy in a real-time collaborative intelligence

摘要

Systems and methods are for enabling a group of individuals, each using an individual computing device, to collaboratively answer questions or otherwise express a collaborative will/intent in real-time. The collaboration system comprises a plurality of computing devices, each of the devices being used by an individual user, each of the computing devices enabling its user to contribute to the emerging real-time group-wise intent. A collaboration server is disclosed that communicates remotely to the plurality of individual computing devices. Herein, a variety of inventive methods are disclosed for implementing a credit economy for the collaboration system. A credit amount is associated with each user. Credits are awarded to one or more users for certain events, such as successful completion of a collaborative session. Credits are decremented to one or more users for other events, such as for asking a question to be answered by the group.