Patent Document ID: 9684868
Application ID: 14706316
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of predicting users who will have a specified influence in a social network, comprising: identifying a set of users of the social network; identifying a subset of the users that had a defined effect in the social network over a given time period; identifying a multitude of measures as predictors of which ones of the set of users have said defined effect in the social network; obtaining a training set of data from the set of users; using said training set of data to determine an effectiveness of each of measures as a predictor of which ones of the set of the users would have said defined effect in the social network; ranking the measures in order based on the determined effectiveness of each of the measures; and forming a composite predictor model by combining said measures in the order of said ranking of the measures, to determine which ones of the set of users will have a specified influence in the social network in the future.