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

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions that when executed by a processor associated with a computing device perform a method comprising:
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 a sentiment associated with the financial market instrument using the corpus of social media posts;
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 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.