Patent ID: 8635227

Claim:
A method for discerning human intent based on user-generated metadata, the method comprising: maintaining information in memory regarding: language associated with a topic of interest to a user, and contexts indicative of a human intent of interest to the user, wherein the human intent of interest to the user is associated with a set of one or more action items; accessing a plurality of sources of digital data, the plurality of sources publishing digital data regarding a plurality of topics and indicative of a plurality of different human intents; and executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor: automatically filters the digital data based on the language maintained in memory as being associated with the topic of interest to the user, automatically refines the filter results based on identifying one or more of the contexts maintained in memory as being indicative of the human intent of interest to the user in the filtered digital data, automatically generates a tag associating the filtered and refined digital data with the topic and the identified human intent of interest to the user; and aggregates the filtered and refined digital data based on the tag, wherein an action item from the set of one or more action items is designated for performance on the aggregated digital data.