Patent Document ID: 8201095
Application ID: 12417238

Base Claim:
1. A method for managing a thread on a web forum in response to a change in topic, comprising: receiving a post on a thread in a web forum within a data processing system having at least one processor, wherein the thread includes one or more thread keywords, wherein each of the one or more thread keywords are associated with a relevancy score; searching the post for the one or more thread keywords; adding together the relevancy scores of any of the one or more thread keywords located within the post to obtain a post total relevancy score; in response to a determination that the post total relevancy score is less than the threshold relevancy score, searching the web forum for at least one existing second thread, wherein the existing second thread comprises one or more second thread keywords that are also located within the post; and providing a move query to automatically move the post to the existing second thread.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more thread keywords are identified by at least one of a thread creator and a forum moderator.