Google Authorship Algorithm

Brian posted about Google+ a tip that the All of us Patent Office has released a newer form of the Google patent on Google Authorship. This is referred to as Authentication of a Factor of Online Written content # 20120265755.
Now, Costs Slawski summarized the first one last April, he referred to as Google's Comment Patents and exactly how Pages' Web Rankings Could be Influenced by Commentors' Reputations.
What are the differences in between this new updated one and the original one? Brian clarifies:
Reputation score relies at least in part on reviews of the online content item that were provided by one or more experts

Ranking for the creator based at least simply on the reputation report for the author as well as reputation scores of one or more authors who supplied the reviews
Position is weighted according to a status level of the one or more authors who provided the evaluations.
This is really some saturday and sunday reading. So when you've got a chance, print out Authentication of a Contributor involving Online Content Number 20120265755 and read it over the weekend.