Patent Document ID: 9323826
Application ID: 14269705

Base Claim:
1. A method of analyzing micro-blog activity to detect emerging and viral events comprising: examining a plurality of received micro-blog messages to predict an effect on society of a single event described in each micro-blog message included in a subset of micro-blog messages, wherein the subset of micro-blog messages comprises a plurality of micro-blog messages contained in the plurality of received micro-blog messages; forming a prediction about the effect on society of the single event described in each of the micro-blog messages contained in the subset of micro-blog messages; and alerting a user when the predicted effect exceeds a threshold.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising: determining a set of features about the plurality of received micro-blog messages and senders of the micro-blog messages; clustering the plurality of received micro-blog messages based on the set of features to create the subset of micro-blog messages that represent the single event; and classifying the event to form a prediction about the effect on society of the event.