Patent ID: 7945854

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for the combination and display of social and textual content comprising the steps of: determining a corpus of content portions; determining elements associated with the content portions; determining a first set of feature values based on the determined elements wherein the first set of feature values comprise at least one of: textual elements drawn from the content potions, and topics derived from the content portions; determining content indicators associated with the content portions; determining clusters of content portions based on the first set of feature values; determining structural links between the content portion indicators based on a second set of feature values: wherein the second set of feature values indicate a type and a strength of inter-relationships between the content portions associated with the content portion indicators; determining a mapping of the clusters of content portions onto the dimensions of a display device that preserve the pair-wise distances between clusters; determining a layout of the content portion indicators based on the structural links derived from the second set of feature values and the mapping of clusters derived from the first set of feature values; and displaying a graph of the content portion indicators based on the layout.