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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Ke Ke Cai, Beijing, CN;

Hong Lei Guo, Beijing, CN;

Jian Min Jiang, Beijing, CN;

Zhong Su, Beijing, CN;

Chang Hua Sun, Beijing, CN;

Guo Yu Tang, Beijing, CN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06F 17/278 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06F 17/2785 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide a computer-implemented method, computing system and computer program product for analyzing a message in a social network. The method comprises identifying an entity from the message; detecting historical popularity of the entity in a social network; identifying a topic from the message; detecting historical popularity of the topic in the social network; and generating an entity-topic correlation factor for the entity and the topic based on the historical popularity of the entity and the historical popularity of the topic. Results obtained with embodiments of the invention may be provided to popularity prediction tools for improving popularity prediction of messages in social networks.


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