Patent Document ID: 9235635
Application ID: 13856398

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for identifying story trends, the method comprising: identifying a set of words in a fixed size data stream based on a subword cache; electronically determining at least one story trend associated with the set of words and electronically generating a story hash associated with the set of words; storing the story hash in a story trend cache and updating the story trend cache according to the story hash; and retrieving one or more popular story topics according to the story trend cache for presentation to a user.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving a request for stories from a user; using the story hash to calculate a hamming distance between the story hash and another story hash; and providing a story to the user based on a merger of the story hashes, if the hamming distance indicates that the story hashes are proximate.