Patent ID: 9524526
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for mapping authors across multiple social media forums, the method comprising: creating a database that contains publicly observable information pertaining to multiple authors from multiple social media forums; generating a mapping between at least a first one of the authors from a first of the social media forums and at least a second one of the authors from a second of the social media forums in the database based on a comparison of structured information comprising one or more identification details associated with a given author, unstructured user generated content information comprising one or more portions of written content generated by the given author, and network information; refining the mapping by: generating a score for the refined mapping between the first and the second authors by calculating: determining, based on said generated score, that the first and the second authors are the same person; wherein the steps are carried out by at least one computing device.