Patent Document ID: 8990065
Application ID: 13004083

Base Claim:
1. A method of presenting summaries of stories respectively associated with at least one message on a computer having a processor, the method comprising: executing on the processor instructions configured to: for respective messages, identify at least one entity involved in the message; cluster the messages according to the at least one entity identified in the respective messages to identify, for a story, a message cluster comprising at least two messages that individually present the story; using the messages of the message cluster, identify at least one expression that frequently appears in the messages of the message cluster; identify at least two opinions about the story that are respectively expressed by at least one message of the message cluster; from the at least one expression of the messages, extract at least one fact of the story; and responsive to receiving from a user a request to present messages about the story: identify a perspective of the user; using the at least one fact of the story described in messages expressing an opinion about the story that matches the perspective of the user, generate a summary of the story; and present the summary to the user.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , the instructions further configured to, for respective messages, identify a language of the message.