Patent Document ID: 9971814
Application ID: 15246755

Base Claim:
1. A method of monitoring network traffic, the method comprising: receiving, by at least one processor, a set of words for use in monitoring network traffic, each word having at least one metric associated therewith; transmitting, by the at least one processor, respective requests to a plurality of computer-implemented social networks through respective application program interfaces (APIs) over a network, the respective requests each including a set of search words, the set of search words comprising a subset of words of the set of words; receiving, by the at least one processor, a set of messages comprising at least one message from each of the plurality of computer-implemented social networks, each message in the set of messages comprising a message distributed through a respective computer-implemented social network and at least one search word in the set of search words; scoring, by the at least one processor, each message in the set of messages based on metrics of respective score words in a set of score words to provide respective scores, the set of score words comprising a subset of words of the set of words, and at least one score word in the set of score words being absent from the set of search words; and providing, by the at least one processor, the messages for display in a rank order by score in a user interface.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one metric comprises one or more of risk, relevance, and false positive rate.