Patent Document ID: 9576326
Application ID: 14298777

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: accessing interaction data describing one or more interactions between at least one actor of a plurality of actors of an online social network service and one or more content items accessible on the online social network service; identifying, based on the interaction data, a specific content item posted by a particular actor of the plurality of actors and one or more interactions by respective other actors of the plurality of actors with the specific content item; calculating, by a machine including a memory and at least one processor and based on the interaction data, a leadership score associated with the particular actor, the leadership score indicating a propensity of the particular actor to spread information among the plurality of actors of the online social network service; determining a number of actors from the plurality of actors have each disseminated the specific content item within a predetermined time period after the specific content item was uploaded to the online social network service by the particular actor, the number of actors being within a predetermined number range; and classifying, based at least in part on the calculated leadership score, the particular actor as an information propagator among the plurality of actors of the online social network service.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: accessing an electronic sociograph depicting each actor of the plurality of actors of the online social network service as a respective node in the electronic sociograph, the electronic sociograph including at least one edge extending between a respective node pair, wherein an edge represents a relationship between respective actors that correspond with a given node pair; and annotating a node in the electronic sociograph that corresponds to the particular actor with information indicating that the particular actor is classified as the information propagator.