Casey L Dugan

US Patent:

20120179751, Jul 12, 2012

Filed:

Apr 6, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/080939

Inventors:

Hyung-il Ahn - San Jose CA, US
Casey Dugan - Winchester MA, US
Werner Geyer - Newton MA, US
David R. Millen - Boxford MA, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709204

Abstract:

An online discussion recommendation system ranks and presents to users of a social media site discussions of interest preferably calculated through interest-matching. The discussion has many online posts. The system and method determine which post to present to the user as a sample snippet from such discussion using sentiment analysis. The sentiment of the snippet may be most polarized, sentiment matching the user's current mood, typical user sentiment, or others.