Patent Document ID: 9805018
Application ID: 14335685

Base Claim:
1. A method of computer-processing natural language text to recognize the presence of words and phrases having certain specific meanings and act upon what has been recognized by sending messages, said method comprising: a) initializing by storing on an Internet-connected computer processing system parsing rules for which input words contained in textual postings accessed through the Internet are the least-frequently-used of a plurality of words required to satisfy those rules; b) queuing processing of the parsing rules based on the appearance of the least frequently used word required by the parsing rules, wherein a particular priority queue is pre-selected according to the parsing rule to assure that rules selected by the words that actually occur in each posting are processed in their correct order, said rules including at least one of the rules selected from the list consisting of the correction of spelling errors, the substitution of plain wording for idioms, the division of complex and compound sentences into simple sentences, and to then act on them by outputting responsive messages; c) receiving at the Internet-connected computer processing system a plurality of input words from textual postings accessed on the Internet; d) processing the queued rules; e) determining whether a response is warranted; and f) where a response is warranted, outputting a responsive message either by directly messaging the author of the textual posting analyzed or by routing responsive messages to a representative.

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Claim 10:
10. The method of claim 1 , further including recognizing negative statements and weighing negative statements as being more highly negative than positive statements are weighed positively.