Patent 7930302 was granted and assigned to Intuit on April, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and system for collecting and analyzing data found across multiple sites on the internet or stored in a self-contained or pre-loaded database, is disclosed which captures, extracts, analyzes, categorizes, synthesizes, summarizes and displays, in a customizable format, both the substance and sentiment embodied within user-generated content, such as comments or reviews, found across such sites and/or stored within such databases.