Patent ID: 8930384
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for monitoring topical interest in a search item of a user device, wherein a communications network counts related messages communicated over the communications network by networked devices to yield a share count of the messages, the related messages include respective article identifiers, comprising: memory containing a set of instructions; a database containing indexed articles, the respective article identifiers each relate to at least one of the indexed articles, respectively; a processor communicatively connected to the communications network, the memory and the database, for processing the set of instructions wherein the set of instructions includes instruction for; receiving by the processor the search item from the user device; determining by the processor any of the indexed articles of the database similar to the search item; accessing the communications network to obtain, for each of the indexed articles similar to the search item, the share counts of the related messages of the communications network including the respective article identifiers representing the indexed article; and deriving a score by the processor based collectively on all of the share counts of the related messages of the article identifiers related to the indexed articles similar to the search item, the score represents topical interest in the search item for the communications network.