System and method for information browsing using multi-modal features
October 19, 2019. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesApparatus for and method of displaying a data item of a database using the display function of a selected data item Scatter-gather: a cluster-based method and apparatus for browsing large document collections Visualization of information using graphical representations of context vector based relationships and attributes Similarity engine for content-based retrieval of images Method for processing a set of page description language commands to reduce complexity Method and apparatus for information access employing overlapping clusters Method and apparatus for query refinement Patent #: 6415282 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 09421770 filed on 10/19/1999US Classes:709/203, Client/server707/10Distributed or remote accessExaminersPrimary: Maung, ZarniInternational ClassG06F 1516AbstractA system and method for browsing, retrieving, and recommending information from a collection uses multi-modal features of the documents in the collection, as well as an analysis of users' prior browsing and retrieval behavior. The system and method are premised on various disclosed methods for quantitatively representing documents in a document collection as vectors in multi-dimensional vector spaces, quantitatively determining similarity between documents, and clustering documents according to those similarities. The system and method also rely on methods for quantitatively representing users in a user population, quantitatively determining similarity between users, clustering users according to those similarities, and visually representing clusters of users by analogy to clusters of documents. | |
