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Posted April 2, 2007 Technology Rating the raters is at the core of URI professors’ research By David Ortiz, PBN Staff Writer A team of computer engineers at the University of Rhode Island has requested patent protection of a technology to combat the manipulation of user-generated ratings of merchants and products offered on eBay, Amazon and other Web sites. Qing Yang, a professor of computer engineering; Yan Sun, left, an assistant professor and NSF grant winner; and Yafei Yang, a graduate student, last month filed a provisional patent for their technology. More » This item is available in full to subscribers. Please log in to continue.