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- Patent Title: System and method for providing orientation into subject areas of digital information for augmented communities
- Patent Title (中): 用于向增强社区提供数字信息主题领域的方向的系统和方法
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Application No.: US14203507Application Date: 2014-03-10
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Publication No.: US08930388B2Publication Date: 2015-01-06
- Inventor: Mark Jeffrey Stefik , Barbara S. Stefik
- Applicant: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agent Patrick J. S. Inouye; Makiko Coffland
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06N5/02

Abstract:
A system and method for providing orientation into subject areas of digital information for augmented communities is provided. Topics are provided for subject areas. Each subject area is associated with an augmented community and each topic is hierarchically organized under a fine-grained topic category. Evergreen indexes are maintained and includes topic models that are each matched to topics associated with each augmented community. Interrelatedness of the evergreen indexes is determined by identifying the topics found in the topic hierarchy for each evergreen index that are shared. A social network including neighbors made up of each augmented community associated with each interrelated evergreen index is formed. A user interest is determined and each of the plurality of topic models for the evergreen indexes is evaluated against the digital information. Access to the digital information via the identified best matched evergreen index and the identified other evergreen index is provided.
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