Patent ID: 8108402

Claim:
A machine-implemented method, comprising: evaluating a collection of content against a relevancy statement, the collection of content is electronic discussions or threads for or about a particular resource that is a custom-defined topic or subject, and the collection of content is culled from the Internet, private or personal repositories of content, virtual communities, and combinations of data from the Internet, the private or personal repositories of content, and the virtual communities; scoring components of the collection of content with relevancy values in view of evaluation of the relevancy statement, each component referring to a particular authored piece of content that belongs to the collection of content, the particular authored piece of content is viewed as a contribution made by a particular author to the custom-defined topic or subject, and each relevancy value refers to a numerically assigned value or unique string belonging to a predefined scale of available values that is assigned to a particular component in view of the relevancy statement, the relevancy statement is a confidence factor that each particular component originates from a particular identity for the particular author, a collection of identities known to be assumed by the particular author, and/or selective identities for a group of users or an organization that the particular author belongs to, and the relevancy statement includes an accuracy factor that each particular component is more or less relevant to the custom-defined topic or subject, and each relevancy value representing a composite value for different relevancy factors; and representing the components with their relevancy values vis-à-vis the collection of content as a whole as a presentation for subsequent analysis.