Patent ID: 7185065
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for processing message traffic from a plurality of electronic discussion forums, comprising: a computer implemented message collector for collecting messages from the plurality of electronic discussion forums; and means for processing the messages based one or more topics in order to track a plurality of pseudonyms, wherein the processing includes computing a relevance score for a collected message based on at least one topic; wherein the means for processing is further adapted to compute a buzz score based on a set of messages for the at least one topic; wherein the buzz score is computed according to the equation: where Rel is a computed relevance score for a message, F is a computed influence score for a poster of a message, and n is the number of messages in the set; wherein the influence score is computed based on the equation: wherein a and b are selectable weighting constants, Rel is the relevance of a message, I is the impact of a message, d is a decay function that reduces the impact of older messages, and wherein m is the number of messages used to compute the influence score; the system further comprising a computer implemented report generator for generating a report on the at least one topic using at least the buzz score.