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US 2013/0159116 A1Published application
Method for predicting news content
OwnerJohn Nicholas Grossinventor
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Abstract
A news and/or search engine system predicts events and stories based on existing events, stories, etc., extracted from a knowledge domain. These predictions can be used for a number of different purposes, including locating new content and actual event outcomes.
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A method of predicting content of a news story with a computing system comprising:
- a) identifying a first event described in first content published in a knowledge domain including one or more social network domains, news content domains, blog domains and/or message board domains;
- b) automatically determining a plurality of different alternative predicted states for said first event, based on a comparison of characteristics of said first event to characteristics of prior events of a same type;
- c) automatically generating queries to said knowledge domain and/or at least one search engine to locate published new content associated with said plurality of different predicted states;
- d) presenting search results or news stories to a user with the computing system which includes at least some of said new published content when such is identified at step (c).
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A method of predicting content of a future unpublished news story with a computing system comprising:
- a) identifying a first event described in content published in a knowledge domain including one or more social network domains, news content domains, blog domains and/or message board domains;
- b) automatically predicting future content for a plurality of different alternative future unpublished stories for said first event or updates to said first event, based on a comparison of characteristics of said first event to characteristics of prior events of a same type;
- wherein said future content is derived from content of prior stories describing said prior events.
A method of determining with a computing system an outcome of an event described in a news story comprising:
- a) identifying a first event described in content published in a knowledge domain including one or more social network domains, news content domains, blog domains and/or message board domains;
- b) automatically determining a plurality of different alternative predicted states for said first event, based on a comparison of characteristics of said first event to characteristics of prior events of a same type;
- c) automatically generating queries to said knowledge domain and/or at least one search engine to locate published new content associated with said plurality of different predicted states;
- d) automatically determining with the computing system which of said plurality of different alternative predicted states is an actual outcome which has occurred based on analyzing a substance of said new content;
- e) presenting said actual outcome as part of a news story and/or a search engine result.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.