Patent ID: 7058566
Filing Date: 2006-06-06
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
1. A method of computer analysis of computer generated communications comprised of a group of words written by an author in order to determine a psychological state of the author which is reflected by the group of words comprising: collecting at least one computer generated communication comprised of the group of words written by the author; parsing the group of words of at least one computer generated communication to identify categories of information therein; processing the categories of information with at least one analysis to quantify at least one type of information in each category; and generating an output communication which assesses a risk posed by the author based upon the at least one computer generated communication when a difference between the quantification of at least one type of information for at least one category and a reference for the at least one category is detected involving the psychological state of the author reflected by the group of words to which a responsive action should be taken with content of the output communication and the at least one category being programmable to define a psychological state in response to which an action should be taken and what the action is to be taken in response to the defined psychological state, and wherein the collected at least one computer generated communication comprises at least one of email, chat from a chat room and information obtained from a server, a plurality of analyses are used to process the categories of information comprising at least one psychological profiling algorithm which provides an indication of a psychological state of the author, at least one key word algorithm which processes any phrases and/or threatening acts to further identify a psychological state of the author and how the author may react to the identified psychological state and at least one message characteristic algorithm which analyzes characteristics of the at least one computer generated communication to identify a psychological state and/or at least one possible action of the author.