Patent ID: 11869099
Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A computing device comprising:
a processor;
a non-transitory storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising:
determining logic executed by the processor for determining a trend in number of social media references to a financial market instrument using a corpus of social media posts of a number of users of at least one social media system, each social media post of the corpus containing a reference to the financial market instrument;
identifying logic executed by the processor for identifying a sentiment associated with the financial market instrument using the corpus of social media posts;
selecting logic executed by the processor for selecting the financial market instrument using the determined trend in number of social media references to the financial market instrument and the identified sentiment associated with the financial market instrument; and
displaying logic executed by the processor for displaying information indicating the determined trend in number of social media references to the financial market instrument in a display of an online financial information provider at a number of client computing devices, the displaying comprising transmitting the information via an electronic communications network to the number of client computing devices.