Systems and methods for hot topic identification and metadata

• US 8,775,431 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2011
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Jason, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Phuong Thao
• Application Number:
  US13/093,263
• Publication Number:
  US 20120271829A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,170 Days
• Field of Search: 707/740, 707/708
• US Class Current: 707/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

According to some embodiments, systems, apparatus, methods and computer program code are provided for receiving data from a plurality of remote data sources, the received data being associated with a plurality of search terms, analyzing the received data to identify at least a first trending search term, comparing the trending search term with a database of topical terms to determine whether the trending search term is relevant to a predetermined topic, querying a content database using the trending search term to identify a caption to be associated with the trending search term, and storing the trending search term and the caption in a database.

Claims

1. A data aggregation apparatus, comprising:

a communication device to receive data from a plurality of remote data sources, the received data being associated with a plurality of search terms;

a processor coupled to the communication device; and

a storage device in communication with the processor and storing instructions configured to be executed by the processor to;

analyze the received data to identify a trending search term;

compare the trending search term with a whitelist of topical terms, the whitelist including terms relevant to a predetermined topic associated with a particular publishing entity;

determine that the trending search term is relevant to the predetermined topic;

query a content database using the trending search term to identify a caption to be associated with the trending search term, the content database including content published by the particular publishing entity;

append the caption to the trending search term; and

store the trending search term and the caption in a database, wherein the terms in the whitelist of topical terms are derived from data in the content database.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of remote data sources include at least one of:

(i) a search engine, (ii) a social media platform, and (iii) a database of search queries.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the trending search term is a search term identified as having a higher than normal search frequency.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the trending search term is a phrase having a higher than normal frequency of use.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the whitelist includes a plurality of terms associated with the predetermined topic.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of terms is identified using tags associated with content created on the predetermined topic, the content stored in the content database in communication with the apparatus.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising instructions configured to be executed by the processor to transmit a notification of the trending search term and the caption to a user device in communication with the apparatus.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the instructions configured to be executed by the processor to query the content database include instructions adapted to be executed by the processor to query a content management system.

9. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the database of search queries is a database of search queries associated with a content management system.

10. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving data from a plurality of remote data sources, the received data being associated with a plurality of search terms;

analyzing the received data to identify a trending search term;

comparing the trending search term with a database of topical terms, the database of topical terms including terms relevant to a predetermined topic associated with a particular publishing entity;

determining that the trending search term is relevant to the predetermined topic;

querying a content database using the trending search term to identify a caption to be associated with the trending search term, the content database including content published by the particular publishing entity;

appending the caption to the trending search term; and

storing the trending search term and the caption in a database, wherein the terms in the database of topical terms are derived from data in the content database.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the received data includes at least one of:

(i) a search term, (ii) an identifier of a source of a search, and (iii) a time stamp.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the trending search term is a search term identified as having a higher than normal search frequency.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the trending search term is a phrase having a higher than normal frequency of use.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the database of topical terms includes a plurality of terms associated with the predetermined topic.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of terms is identified using tags associated with content created on the predetermined topic, the content stored in the content database.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

transmitting a notification of the trending search term and the caption to a user device.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the content database is a content management system.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions configured to be executed by a processor, the medium comprising:

instructions to receive data from a plurality of remote data sources, the received data being associated with a plurality of search terms;

instructions to analyze the received data to identify a trending search term;

instructions to compare the trending search term with a database of topical terms, the database of topical terms including terms relevant to a predetermined topic associated with a particular publishing entity;

instructions to determine that the trending search term is relevant to the predetermined topic;

instructions to query a content database using the trending search term to identify a caption to be associated with the trending search term, the content database including content published by the particular publishing entity;

instructions to append the caption to the trending search term; and

instructions to store the trending search term and the caption in a database, wherein the terms in the database of topical terms are derived from data in the content database.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the analyzing further comprises:

analyzing a frequency associated with the plurality of search terms to identify the trending search term occurring at a higher than normal frequency.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the caption is retrieved from a database of existing content associated with the trending search term.