Patent ID: 7865496

Claim:
A method implemented by a relevancy engine coupled to a network and a user information device, the method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising: automatically, for each of a plurality of publicly traded companies: at the relevancy engine receiving a first list comprising a plurality of relevancy factors, and, for each relevancy factor, a corresponding weight, each relevancy factor from the plurality of relevancy factors comprising an expression comprising at least two phrases and at least one Boolean or proximity operator; reviewing a content of each of a plurality of electronic communications in soft real-time, a first news story from the plurality of electronic communications received from a first server on a network, and a second news story from the plurality of electronic communications received from a second server on the network; and based on matches between the first list and the content of each of the reviewed electronic communications, determining a relevancy score for each of the reviewed news stories; and for a predetermined interval of time, determining a total relevancy score based on a sum of relevancy scores for all reviewed news stories pertaining to the publicly traded company; automatically ranking the plurality of publicly traded companies based on the total relevancy scores; based on the plurality of total relevancy scores, determining an index score for each of the plurality of publicly traded companies; and automatically displaying at a user information device a second list comprising the ranked plurality of publicly traded companies, the corresponding index scores, and, for each of the ranked plurality of publicly traded companies, a hyperlink to link to a third list comprising at least a portion of each of the plurality of reviewed news stories.