US Patent 9299059 Generating a summary of social media content

A method includes receiving, using one or more processing devices, one or more search terms; searching, in a social network using the one or more processing devices, for items of social media content with at least a predefined amount of relevance to the one or more search terms; identifying, based on searching using the one or more processing devices, the items of social media content with at least the predefined amount of relevance to the one or more search terms; and generating, using the one or more processing devices, a summary of content in the identified items of social media content; wherein the summary comprises a subset of the content in the identified items of social media content.