Patent Document ID: 7562011
Application ID: 11554476

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for building a template specifying an emotional response to a content stream, the method comprising: selecting a dictionary, the dictionary including a plurality of concepts to form a directed set, wherein only one concept is a maximal element; establishing directed links between pairs of concepts in the directed set, the directed links defining “is a” relationships between the concepts in the pairs of concepts, so that each concept is either a source or a sink of at least one directed link; establishing intentional stance basis chains in the directed set from the maximal element to each other concept along the directed links, where for each pair of concepts in each intentional stance basis chain, one of the pair of concepts is a lineal ancestor of the other of the pair of concepts; selecting a subset of the intentional stance basis chains to form a basis, the subset of the intentional stance basis chains including at least one intentional stance basis chain; selecting at least one concept in the dictionary; creating a state vector in a topological vector space corresponding to each selected concept within a computer, wherein each state vector in the topological vector space includes as at least one measure of how concretely the corresponding selected concept is represented in each intentional stance basis chain in the basis; assembling the state vectors in the topological vector space into a template; and associating an action with the template.

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Claim 11:
11. A method according to claim 1 , wherein associating an action includes associating a plurality of actions to be performed if the content stream is within one of a plurality of threshold distances of the template, each of the associated actions to be performed if the content stream is within a unique range of distances of the template.