Patent Document ID: 20130097152
Application ID: 13648588
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for monitoring topical interest in a search item of a user device, messages including an article artifact representing an article are communicated over a communications network of networked devices, and the communications network counts the messages to yield a share count of the messages for the communications network, comprising: a query receiver communicatively connected to the user device, for communicatively receiving the search item from the user device; a database communicatively connected to the query engine, the database contains at least one indexed article representing the article; a comparator communicatively connected to the query device and the database for determining any of the at least one indexed article of the database similar to the search item received by the query receiver; a detector communicatively connected to the comparator and the communications network, for accessing the communications network to obtain, for each of the at least one indexed article determined by the comparator, the share count of the messages of the communications network including the article artifact representing the indexed article of the article; and a score processor connected to the detector, for deriving a score from the share count of the messages, the score represents topical interest in the search item for the communications network.