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Method and system of classifying online data

  • US 8,255,402 B2
  • Filed: 04/23/2009
  • Issued: 08/28/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for forming an online community comprising a processing unit, volatile and/or non-volatile memory and one or more data storage devices, the processing being configured to:

  • (a) extract a plurality of keywords from a plurality of posts;

    (b) generate one or more keyword clusters based on the plurality of keywords extracted from the plurality of posts, each of the one or more keyword clusters comprising a plurality of keywords;

    (c) classify new posts in accordance with the one or more keyword clusters,(d) allocate a new post to one or more communities in accordance with the result of classifying in (c); and

    (e) allocate a user to one or more communities in accordance with the classification of the posts they create;

    wherein each community comprises a keyword cluster which comprises a plurality of core keywords and one or more node keywords, the core keywords having an association with each other which exceeds a first threshold value, the one or more node keywords having an association with each other which exceeds a second threshold value, wherein the first threshold value is greater than the second threshold value.

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