Social media events detection and verification

US10109023B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company · CH

Inventors

• Sameena SHAH · White Plains, US
• Xiaomo Lu · Elmont, US
• Qi Cheng Li · Beijing, CN
• Reginald Chua · New York, US
• Armineh Nourbakhsh · Pittsburgh, US
• Quanzhi Li · New Brighton, US
• Rui Fang · Fishkill, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 2, 2016
• Grant date: Oct 23, 2018
• Expiry date: Nov 27, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and techniques for detecting and verifying social media events are disclosed. The system and techniques allow for processing of social media data to extract potentially valuable information in a timely manner and determine the veracity of the detected information. One implementation of the disclosure relates to event detection. Event detection involves ingestion and processing of social media data. Another implementation of the disclosure relates to verification of a detected event and generating a verification score.