Patent Document ID: 9881042
Application ID: 15062386

Base Claim:
1. A system for determining popularity of an individual, comprising: a database, the database configured to provide rankings of several individuals; a client computer; an information server for providing information of the individual, the information comprising qualitative data and quantitative data; and a popularity profiling server operably connected to the database, the client computer, and the information server, the popularity profiling server configured to receive, from the information server, the information, analyze a quantitative data portion of the information, analyze a qualitative data portion of the information using sentiment analysis, the sentiment analysis by natural language parsing to separate the qualitative data into parts of speech, calculate an initial set of scores for the popularity of the individual based on the analysis of the quantitative data portion and the qualitative data portion of the information, update a ranking for the popularity of the individual in the database based on the initial set of scores, determine, after waiting a predetermined amount of time, whether new data has been updated to the information on the information server, the predetermined amount of time entered by a client on the client computer, and if new data has been updated, calculate an updated set of scores for the information based on the new data, and update the ranking for the popularity of the individual on the database.

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Claim 2:
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the popularity profiling server is further configured to receive a request for a current ranking of the individual using an identifier from a remote third party application, retrieve from the database the current ranking of the individual using the identifier, and transmit the current ranking to the remote third party application, the current ranking representing a ranked order of the individual based on a comparison of the individual's current sets of scores to other individuals' current sets of scores.