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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2016
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Lee A. Carbonell, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Tsz S. Cheng, Grand Prairie, TX (US);
Jeffrey L. Edgington, Keller, TX (US);
Pandian Mariadoss, Allen, TX (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0613 (2013.01); G06F 17/243 (2013.01); G06F 17/2785 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0623 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0641 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 69/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
A user input pertaining to a question is received. Based on the question a new message is generated and posted in at least one web based forum. Responses to the new message are monitored and analyzed to determine whether, for each response, the response pertains to a subject of the question. Responsive to determining that at least one response pertains to the subject of the question, information contained in the response is presented to the user.