Method of organizing information into topical, temporal, and location associations for organizing, selecting, and distributing information
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1. An event information processing method of processing event based information in an event information processing system, comprising:
- acquiring event based information from at least one information source, the event based information having topical, temporal and location attributes;
determining topical, temporal, and location attributes from the acquired event based information; and
organizing the event based information by the determined topical, temporal, and location attributes, wherein the event based information is accessible as event information reflective of criteria comprising values of topical, temporal and location attributes.
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Abstract
An event information processing method of processing event based information in an event information processing system for organizing and accessing event information includes steps of acquiring event based information from at least one information source, wherein event based information comprises attributes associated with topic, time, and location, and identifying topical, temporal, and location attributes from the event information that are used to organize the event information for selection and correlation with other event information. Topical, temporal, and location attributes are extendable by means of a topical hierarchical category resource, location and temporal hierarchical category resources or by application specific attribute information. The event information is storable in an event repository along with its topical, temporal, and location attributes. Event information is distributable to users authorized to access subsets of information, according to user specified or predetermined combined selection criteria of values, ranges or categories of topical, temporal, and location attributes.
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1. An event information processing method of processing event based information in an event information processing system, comprising:
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acquiring event based information from at least one information source, the event based information having topical, temporal and location attributes;
determining topical, temporal, and location attributes from the acquired event based information; and
organizing the event based information by the determined topical, temporal, and location attributes, wherein the event based information is accessible as event information reflective of criteria comprising values of topical, temporal and location attributes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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