Method and apparatus for digital media management, retrieval, and collaboration
US7418444B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 21, 2002 |
| Grant date | Aug 26, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 8, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99948
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system stories digital media records and includes a search engine searching the stored digital media records. It receives search requests from users, logs the search requests, expands the search requests, applies a statistical clustering algorithm, thereby grouping similar search requests together, identifies, using a semantic net hierarchy, a lowest-level term in the hierarchy that subsumes all of the queries in a grouping of search requests, and communicates the identified term to a user.
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