Patent Document ID: 9348873
Application ID: 14954453

Base Claim:
1. A method to rank an influence of a web site, comprising: determining, with a processor, a number of inbound links to a web site, the web site including posts that are associated with a topic; calculating, with the processor, elapsed times between time adjacent posts that are relevant to the topic; and determining a rank of the web site based on the number of inbound links and times between adjacent ones of the inbound links.

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Claim 5:
5. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein the calculating of the times between the adjacent ones of the inbound links includes: determining posting times of the posts that are relevant to the topic; comparing a first list including the posting times to a second list including the inbound links to determine a third list including posting times of the inbound links; and determining the times between the adjacent ones of the inbound links in the third list.