Patent Document ID: 9230031
Application ID: 14012121

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of identifying a person of interest, the method comprising: generating, with a computer processor, a shared topic feed that includes a topic input associated with a user; identifying a subject matter area of the topic input; distributing the shared topic feed to a set of followers; and identifying the user as a person of interest based on follower interactions with the topic input, wherein identifying the user as a person of interest comprises: determining a first number of follower interactions with topic inputs associated with the user that pertain to the subject matter area; determining a second number of follower interactions with topic inputs, associated with a number of other users, that pertain to the subject matter area; and identifying the user as a person of interest for the subject matter based on a determination that the first number of follower interactions is more than the second number of follower interactions.

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Claim 6:
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 and further comprising: identifying the set of followers based on other users that follow the subject matter area.