Patent ID: 7756720
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method of quantifying measurement of fame of a celebrity, comprising the steps of: providing a relational database for holding information about a plurality of celebrities, said information being arranged in a plurality of tables in the database, said tables comprising: providing a quantification engine having software for use in a computer processor adapted to execute said software; using said computer process to parse each story in the stories table and perform bigram analysis of the text of each said story to determine frequency of each term in the story; using said computer processor to create creating a multidimensional vector representing quantifiable measures of fame for each of said plurality of celebrities, wherein a value for each dimension of said vector provides input to said quantification engine; using said computer processor to normalize the value of the dimensions for each of said plurality of celebrities; and using said quantification engine to compute an objective fame weight based on said normalized value.