Patent ID: 8554709

Claim:
A method for determining a competitive landscape for entities in an industry, the method comprising: tagging known entities with metadata; receiving media streams about a plurality of performing entities in the industry; authenticating the performing entities against the known entities; filtering the received media streams to eliminate false positives; scoring the filtered media streams; determining a performance score for each performing entity based on the authentication of the performing entities and the scored media streams; identifying for at least one of the plurality of performing entities, a link between the performing entity and a known entity, the identification based at least in part on the authentication of the performing entities against the known entities and the performance score for the at least one performing entity; determining a relationship score for the identified link based on the performance score determined for the at least one performing entity and the scored media streams, each relationship score describing a relationship between a performing entity and a known entity; and reporting a competitive landscape map for the performing entities based on the relationship scores.