Patent Document ID: 9208248
Application ID: 13969099

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: identifying, via a processor, relative to a specified social network user for each of a plurality of social media postings, a degree of social network separation of a social network user that generated expressive content of the respective social media posting; grouping social media postings that comprise an equivalent identified degree of social network separation relative to the specified social network user; determining differences between the expressive content of the grouped social media postings at different degrees of social network separation; and rendering the determined differences between the expressive content of the grouped social media postings at the different degrees of social network separation.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , where the expressive content of the grouped social media postings comprises expressed opinions within the social media postings related to a topic, and where determining the differences between the expressive content of the grouped social media postings at the different degrees of social network separation comprises: correlating, within each group of social media postings, similar expressed opinions of social media postings into expressed opinion sets; and determining differences between the correlated expressed opinion sets within each group of social media postings.