Social analytics system and method for analyzing conversations in social media
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US Β· United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- BUZZLOGIC
- Publication Date
- 2007-09-13
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable Β· inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims the benefit of and priority to provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 777,975, βA Social Analytics System For Networked And Human Conversational Environments,β filed on Feb. 28, 2006, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The present invention is generally related to techniques to analyze conversations within a conversational network. More particularly, the present invention is directed to analyzing the influence of social media content and its publishers within a conversational network. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0003] The Internet is increasingly used as a platform for social media. Web logs (blogs) and wikis are two common forms of social media. However, more generally social media may also include interactive aspects, such as voting, comments, and trackback and take many different forms. Referring to FIG. 1A, social media generally describes online technologie...