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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2017
Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre Gmbh, Zug, CH;
Quanzhi Li, Mountainside, NJ (US);
Armineh Nourbakhsh, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Sameena Shah, White Plains, NY (US);
THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBH, Zug, CH;
Abstract
A method of detecting events in and clustering social media postings for display on a user system may include retrieving, via an application programming interface (API) of a social media system over at least one first communication network, at least one posting of the social media system; determining whether the at least one posting has content referring to a predetermined time period; upon determining that the at least one posting has content referring to the predetermined time period, determining whether the at least one posting corresponds to an existing cluster of postings related to an event; upon determining that the at least one posting corresponds to the existing cluster of postings relating to the event, storing, in at least one database on a non-transistory machine-readable storage medium, the existing cluster of postings modified to include the at least one posting; and providing, via at least one second communication network, a representation of the modified existing cluster of postings for display on a user system.