Patent Document ID: 20160259822
Application ID: 15062386
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for determining popularity of an artist, comprising: a database, the database configured to provide rankings of several artists; a client computer; an information server for providing artist information, the artist information comprising qualitative data and quantitative data; and a popularity profiling server operably connected to the database, the client computer, and the information server, the popularity profiling server configured to receive, from the information server, the artist information, analyze a quantitative data portion of the artist information, analyze a qualitative data portion of the artist information using sentiment analysis, the sentiment analysis by natural language parsing to separate the qualitative data into pans of speech, calculate an initial set of scores for the popularity of the artist based on the analysis of the quantitative data portion and the qualitative data portion of the artist information, update a ranking for the popularity of the artist in the database based on the initial set of scores, determine, after waiting a predetermined amount of time, if new data has been updated to the artist information on the information server, the predetermined amount of time entered by a client on the client computer, and if new data has been updated, calculate an updated set of scores for the artist information based on the new data, and update the ranking for the popularity of the artist on the database.