Producing, Archiving and Searching Social Content

摘要

A search engine configured to process social communications such that the social communications can be searched according to a specific time period is presented. The search engine (or related process) accesses a store or feed of social communications and segments the social communications according to time periods. The segments are processed such that a representative set of social communications related to topics of the time period are determined. The representative set of social communications is stored in a content store such that the search engine can retrieve them in response to a search query regarding social communications relating to a topic/time period.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for facilitating access to social communications, the method comprising:
accessing a plurality of social communications; segmenting the social communications according to predetermined time periods; for each segment of social communications:
associating the social communications of the segment with a plurality of topics concurrent with the predetermined time period of the segment; anddetermining a representative set of social communications for each of the plurality of topics from the social communications associated with each topic; and indexing and storing the representative set of communications for each of the plurality of topics in a content store according to the predetermined time period and the associated topic.