Patents by Inventor Michael W. Macy

Michael W. Macy has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING COMPLEX CONTAGION AND CRITICAL MASS IN ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA
    Publication number: 20220215480
    Abstract: A method for determining social contagion while monitoring social media may be executable via operation of configured processing circuitry. The method may include receiving data indicative of social media activity of a plurality of users, selecting features of interest from the data, building a relationship network indicative of connections between the users and local networks to which various ones of the users belong, analyzing the features of interest to determine candidate features for classification as social contagion, determining a complex social contagion score for the candidate features, and providing an indication regarding the classification as social contagion based on the complex social contagion score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Vladimir Barash, Christopher J. Cameron, Michael W. Macy, Clayton R. Fink, Aurora C. Schmidt, John W. Kelly
  • Method and apparatus for monitoring complex contagion and critical mass in online social media
    Patent number: 11151662
    Abstract: A method for determining social contagion while monitoring social media may be executable via operation of configured processing circuitry. The method may include receiving data indicative of social media activity of a plurality of users, selecting features of interest from the data, building a relationship network indicative of connections between the users and local networks to which various ones of the users belong, analyzing the features of interest to determine candidate features for classification as social contagion, determining a complex social contagion score for the candidate features, and providing an indication regarding the classification as social contagion based on the complex social contagion score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Vladimir Barash, Christopher J. Cameron, Michael W. Macy, Clayton R. Fink, Aurora C. Schmidt, John W. Kelly
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING COMPLEX CONTAGION AND CRITICAL MASS IN ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA
    Publication number: 20190164234
    Abstract: A method for determining social contagion while monitoring social media may be executable via operation of configured processing circuitry. The method may include receiving data indicative of social media activity of a plurality of users, selecting features of interest from the data, building a relationship network indicative of connections between the users and local networks to which various ones of the users belong, analyzing the features of interest to determine candidate features for classification as social contagion, determining a complex social contagion score for the candidate features, and providing an indication regarding the classification as social contagion based on the complex social contagion score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Vladimir Barash, Christopher J. Cameron, Michael W. Macy, Clayton R. Fink, Aurora C. Schmidt, John W. Kelly