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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
determining, by a computing device of an online financial information provider, 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, by the computing device, a sentiment associated with the financial market instrument using the corpus of social media posts;
selecting, by the computing device, 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, via the computing device, information indicating the determined trend in number of social media references to the financial market instrument in a display of the 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.