Patent ID: 8725717
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for identifying topics for short text communications, comprising: a receipt module to receive one or more social status updates from one or more social networking sources; an extraction module to extract tokens from text of one or more of the social status updates; a topic generator to generate topics for at least one of the social status updates based on a set of documents separate from the social status updates from which the tokens are extracted, comprising: a filter module to filter the social status updates based on at least one of the topics of the social status updates, times associated with the social status updates, the sources of the social status updates, and creators of the social status updates; an update display module to display the filtered social status updates; a tag cloud module to display in a tag cloud the topics of the displayed filtered social status updates; and a processor to execute the modules.