Patent ID: 7756720

Claim:
A computer implemented method of quantifying measurement of fame of a celebrity, comprising the steps of: providing a relational database for holding information about a plurality of celebrities, said information being arranged in a plurality of tables in the database, said tables comprising: stories; wherein such information in the stories table contains celebrity related news and information gathered by a data generation process and such information is selected from the group consisting of: date of story; story title; story source; and story text; identification of celebrities; wherein such information in the identification of celebrities table contains data selected from the group consisting of: name; gender; and age; categories of celebrity; many to many mapping between the identification of celebrities to the categories of celebrity; many to many mapping between the identification of celebrities to the stories; providing a quantification engine having software for use in a computer processor adapted to execute said software; using said computer process to parse each story in the stories table and perform bigram analysis of the text of each said story to determine frequency of each term in the story; using said computer processor to create creating a multidimensional vector representing quantifiable measures of fame for each of said plurality of celebrities, wherein a value for each dimension of said vector provides input to said quantification engine; using said computer processor to normalize the value of the dimensions for each of said plurality of celebrities; and using said quantification engine to compute an objective fame weight based on said normalized value.