Patent ID: 9639622
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. An information processing system, comprising: a data acquisition unit operating to: (i) search one or more web sites on a network, where the one or more web sites permit a plurality of users to post content onto the web sites in order to make such content publically available over the network, and (ii) acquire certain of the content posted by the users that satisfy one or more search criteria; a user determination unit operating to analyze the acquired content and obtain user identification information as to each of the plurality of users who posted the acquired content, where each of the plurality of users is deemed to be among a group of users of interest; a web site determination unit operating to determine one or more web sites referenced in at least one of the acquired content and further content posted by any of the users of interest, such that the one or more determined web sites are associated with the users of interest; and a web site association unit operating to: (i) determine respective numbers of the users of interest who referenced respective ones of the determined web sites in the acquired and/or further content; (ii) determine which of the respective numbers satisfy a predetermined condition; and (iii) associate a plurality of the determined web sites with one another for which the respective numbers thereof satisfy the predetermined condition.