Patent ID: 6999914

Claim:
A method of determining an emotive index for a message, comprising: receiving a message; identifying words to be analyzed in the message to provide identified words; incrementing a word count value each time an identified word is encountered until an ending point is reached; determining whether the word count value is greater than a threshold value; setting a word count index equal to a first value if the word count value is greater than a threshold value, and setting the word count index equal to a second value if the word count value is not greater than the threshold value; changing an emotive index by the word count index; providing a list of intensifiers; analyzing the identified words to find an intensifier; providing a list of affinity indicators; analyzing the identified words to find affinity indicators; locating an affinity indicator nearest to the intensifier; changing an affinity index by an affinity amount corresponding to the intensifier and the affinity indicator nearest to the intensifier; and changing the emotive index by the affinity index.