Topic-influenced document relationship graphs
US9715495B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 15, 2016 |
| Grant date | Jul 25, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 15, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/9024
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Provided is a process of enhancing or suppressing measures of relationships between documents based on the relationships arising from text pertaining to selected topics, the process including: obtaining a corpus of documents; obtaining a set of topics by self-extracting topics according to the tokens present in text of the documents or manual provision; receiving a selected topic among the set of topics, the selection indicating that relationships between the documents are to be enhanced or suppressed in virtue of the relationships arising from text relating to the selected topic; forming a relationship graph of the documents, wherein: the relationships between pairs of the documents are determined based on co-occurrence of n-grams in the pairs of the documents, and wherein the relationships are enhanced or suppressed in response to co-occurring n-grams being in the respective set of n-grams of the selected topic.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.