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Resolving outdated items within curated content

  • US 10,394,939 B2
  • Filed: 03/31/2015
  • Issued: 08/27/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of resolving outdated items within curated content, the method comprising:

  • determining whether an electronic source link of a curated item that is included in the curated content is broken;

    in response to the electronic source link not being broken;

    determining whether linked content at the electronic source link is consistent with a version of a document originally accessed on which the curated item is based (item document), andin response to the linked content not being consistent with the item document;

    locating an alternative source for an inconsistent source link by;

    combining content from two or more curated items of the curated content;

    identifying a common context of the combined content, the common context being indicative of a topic of the curated content; and

    executing a search on an external search engine using the common context to obtain two or more external alternatives to the curated item;

    computing vector distances between each of the two or more external alternatives and the combined content;

    obtaining an update time of each of the two or more external alternatives; and

    ranking the two or more external alternatives based on the computed vector distances and the update times;

    based on the ranking, selecting one of the two or more external alternatives to replace the curated item in the curated content; and

    replacing the electronic source link with an alternative electronic link of the selected external alternative;

    in response to the electronic source link being broken, locating an alternative item by;

    assigning an element weight to elements of the item document, the element weight being based on a function of the element in the item document, andcomparing the item document and one or more cached documents in a search index (stored documents) based on a context similarity between elements of the item document and corresponding elements of the stored documents factoring in the element weights assigned to the compared elements; and

    following an expiration date of the curated item, locating updated content that is relevant to the curated item.

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