Patent ID: 7363243
Filing Date: 2008-04-22
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for processing messages collected from a plurality of electronic discussion forums, comprising: computer implemented means for collecting messages from the plurality of electronic discussion forums; computer implemented means for processing the messages according to a series of topics, wherein the processing includes determining the relevance of a message to at least one topic; computer implemented means for tracking posting activity of a plurality of posters associated with the at least one topic based on the processing of the messages; computer implemented means for collecting objective market data associated with the at least one topic from at least one objective market data source; computer implemented means for generating a correlation between the posting activity of a plurality of posters associated with the at least one topic versus the objective market data associated with the at least one topic; computer implemented means for measuring the mood of a community of posters posting electronic messages in the plurality of electronic discussion forums; and computer implemented means for generating a report displaying, at least in part, information associated with the correlation; wherein the means for generating a correlation between the posting activity of a plurality of posters associated with the at least one topic versus the objective market data associated with the at least one topic by the computer system further includes the measured mood of the community of posters into the correlation; and whereby the information displayed in the report is used by a computer implemented means for predicting external market events to predict external market events.