US 2013/0097152 A1 · TOPICAL ACTIVITY MONITOR SYSTEM AND METHOD

Abstract

A method monitors topical activity among networked devices of social communications networks. Related messages, such as posts, shares, likes, and others, are communicated between devices of the social networks. Each social network maintains a share count of related messages. A data network, such as the Internet, includes sources of articles. The method includes receiving a search item from the data network, collecting articles related to the search item from article sources, storing a unique identifier for each collected article, comparing the search item to the unique identifiers to determine similarity, compiling a result set of any similar unique identifiers, communicatively detecting, for the result set, respective share counts of related messages for each social network, and deriving a collective score based on all share counts. The score represents topical activity for the search item. The score is reported, and relevant articles may also be reported.

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Dependent claims

A system for monitoring topical interest in a search item of a user device, messages including an article artifact representing an article are communicated over a communications network of networked devices, and the communications network counts the messages to yield a share count of the messages for the communications network, comprising:

a query receiver communicatively connected to the user device, for communicatively receiving the search item from the user device;
a database communicatively connected to the query engine, the database contains at least one indexed article representing the article;
a comparator communicatively connected to the query device and the database for determining any of the at least one indexed article of the database similar to the search item received by the query receiver;
a detector communicatively connected to the comparator and the communications network, for accessing the communications network to obtain, for each of the at least one indexed article determined by the comparator, the share count of the messages of the communications network including the article artifact representing the indexed article of the article;
and
a score processor connected to the detector, for deriving a score from the share count of the messages, the score represents topical interest in the search item for the communications network.

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A method of monitoring topical activity among networked devices of a social communications network, the social communications network communicates related messages between networked devices and maintains a share count of the related messages, and a data communications network includes at least one source of articles, comprising the steps of:

receiving a search item from a data communications network;
collecting articles related to the search item from each of the at least one source of articles of the data communications network;
storing in a database, for each respective one of the article from the step of collecting, a respective unique identifier representing the article;
comparing the search item to each respective unique identifier, respectively, of the database, to determine similarity of the respective unique identifier to the search item;
compiling a result set of each respective unique identifier determined similar to the search item in the step of comparing;
communicatively detecting the share count of the messages of the social communications network related to the result set;
and
deriving a score based collectively on all of the share counts from the step of communicatively detecting, the score represents topical activity of networked devices of the social communications network for the search item.

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A method of monitoring topical activity among respective networked devices of each of a plurality of respective social communications networks, each respective social communications network communicates respective related messages between the respective networked devices of the respective social communications network and maintains a respective share count of the respective related messages of the respective social communications network, and a data communications network includes at least one source of articles, comprising the steps of:

receiving a search item from a data communications network;
collecting articles related to the search item from each of the at least one source of articles of the data communications network;
storing in a database, for each respective one of the article from the step of collecting, a respective unique identifier representing the article;
comparing the search item to each respective unique identifier, respectively, of the database, to determine similarity of the respective unique identifier to the search item;
compiling a result set of each respective unique identifier determined similar to the search item in the step of comparing;
communicatively detecting the respective share count of the respective related messages of each one of the plurality of respective social communications network related to the result set;
and
deriving a score based collectively on all of the respective share counts from the step of communicatively detecting, the score represents topical activity of all of the respective networked devices of all of the plurality of respective social communications networks for the search item.

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