Patent Document ID: 7930302
Application ID: 11982936

Base Claim:
1. A method for analyzing user-generated content, comprising: collecting, by a processor, a review of a business from a website; extracting, by the processor, a sentence from the review; identifying, processor and within the sentence, an attribute-value comprising a noun and a descriptive term describing the noun, wherein the descriptive term comprises an adjective and an adverb corresponding to the adjective; obtaining, by the processor, an adjective score for the adjective from a rating system lookup table; assigning, by the processor, a heuristic rule score to the adverb; and calculating, by the processor, a sentence review score for the sentence by summing the adjective score and the heuristic rule score.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving, from a user, a search query comprising the noun; identifying, based on the search query, a plurality of sentence review scores comprising the sentence review score; calculating, based on the plurality of sentence review scores and using a normalization algorithm, a plurality of normalized sentence review scores; calculating a representative sentence score based on the plurality of normalized sentence review scores; and outputting the representative sentence score to the user.