This recently granted patent is about identifying subjective attributes of entities. I haven’t seen a patent about subjective attributes of entities or responses to those entities. A critical aspect of it is that it is user-generated content. We get told that user-generated content (UGC) is becoming more common on the Web because of the increasing popularity of social networks, blogs, review websites, etc. We often see user gnnerated content in the form of comments, such as: A Comment by a first user about content shared by a second user within a social network User comments in response to an article in a columnist’s blog A comment from a video clip posted on a content hosting website Reviews (such as of products, movies) Actions (such as Like!, Dislike!, +1, sharing, bookmarking, playlisting, etc.) So forth Under this patent, a way to identify and predict subjective attributes for entities (such as media clips, images, newspaper articles, blog entries, persons, organizations, commercial businesses, etc.)…