ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,340, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Processing apparatus, processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Masahiro Tani (Tokyo), Keisuke Ikeda (Tokyo) and Kazufumi Kojima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to extract, with high accuracy, useful information from contribution information of social media, the present invention provides a processing apparatus 10 including: an acquisition unit 11 that acquires contribution information relating to a target area; a computation unit 12 that computes a degree of reliability of the contribution information, based on at least two of an...