Patent ID: 9461897
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of monitoring network traffic, the method comprising: obtaining, by one or more processors, a list including a plurality of words, each word having at least two metrics associated therewith, the plurality of words comprising one or more words that are each identified as a search word and a score word, and one or more words that are each identified as a non-search word and a score word; transmitting, by the one or more processors, respective requests to a plurality of computer-implemented social networks through respective application program interfaces (APIs) over a network, the respective requests each only including at least one search word in the list; receiving, by the one or more processors, a set of messages comprising at least one message from each of the plurality of computer-implemented social networks, each message in the set of messages comprising a message distributed through a respective computer-implemented social network and at least one search word in the list; scoring, by the one or more processors, each message in the set of messages based on respective two or more metrics of at least one search word and any non-search words provided in respective messages to provide respective scores; and providing, by one or more processors, the messages for display in a rank order by score in a user interface.