Patent ID: 9473377
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: configuring, by a computer, a monitoring application configured to monitor forum activity in one or more online forums accessible over a computer network, wherein the forum activity is correlated to a rate of contributions from a plurality of clients participating in the one or more online forums; distributing, via the computer network, the monitoring application to a host computer operating the one or more online forums; receiving forum activity measurements from the host computer; and publishing an index of forum activity measurements for each of the one or more online forums, using the computer, wherein the forum activity measurements indicate measures of the forum activity per unit of time for different past time periods; and wherein the published index ranks the one or more online forums in order of forum activity such that an end user may determine which one of the one or more online forums has a highest forum activity measurement at a designated time.