Patent ID: 9251530
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: identifying accounts associated with social networks; collecting signals for the accounts; associating contextual dimensions with the accounts; identifying relationships between the accounts and/or signals and the contextual dimensions; generating analytics for the contextual dimensions based on the relationships; identifying the signals containing messages for a conversation discussing a same topic; identifying a first type of user participating in the conversation as influencers that have a plurality of followers; identifying a second type of user participating in the conversation as advocates; determining a first weighted score based at least in part on applying a first weight to a first portion of the messages generated by the influencers; determining a second weighted score based at least in part on applying a second weight to a second portion of the messages generated by the advocates; calculating a strength of the conversation based at least in part on the first weighted score and the second weighted score; generating a score for the topic based at least in part on the strength of the conversation; and displaying the score of the topic on a display.