Patent ID: 9740689
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A system for detecting dates in digital text written in Farsi, the system comprising: one or more processors and a memory, the memory being a non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions encoded thereon, such that upon execution of the instructions, the one or more processors perform operations of: (g) receiving a string of digital text from a social media source; (h) searching for a date in the string of digital text by searching for one of the words yesterday, today and tomorrow in Farsi as follows: (i) performing a month search in the string of digital text by searching for a name of a month; (j) performing a weekday name search by looking for weekday names within the string of text followed by a word in Farsi having a meaning of “next”; (k) searching for a year-month-date label in the string of digital text; (l) convening the year-month-date label to Gregorian calendar and logging the day of the month.