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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2016
Blab, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Randolph Browning, Mercer Island, WA (US);
David Aaron Snelling, Bellevue, WA (US);
Stefan Nicholas Papp, Seattle, WA (US);
Bernhard G. Zimmermann, Seattle, WA (US);
Oliver B. Downs, Redmond, WA (US);
BLAB, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for analyzing user-supplied information, including in at least some situations to predict future aspects of additional related information that will be supplied by users. The user-supplied information that is analyzed may, for example, include distributed group discussions that involve numerous users and occur via user comments made to one or more social networking sites and/or other computer-accessible sites. The analysis of user-supplied information may, for example, include determining particular topics that are of interest for a specified category during one or more periods of time, quantifying an amount of user interest in particular topics and the category during the period of time, predicting future amounts of user interest in the particular topics and the category during one or more future period of times, and taking one or more further actions based on the predicted information.