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Method and system for supporting symbolic serendipity

  • US 20050120015A1
  • Filed: 11/12/2004
  • Published: 06/02/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer system for supporting serendipitous examination of a body of information comprising:

  • a profile management module for acquiring information related to each user of the system indicative of a world view of each user and developing a profile of each user based on a classification of each user'"'"'s world view, a divergence module for acquiring lateral concepts from outside knowledge sources related to the profile of each user and storing the lateral concepts in a shadow profile for each user, and a stimuli generation module for retrieving the lateral concepts from any given shadow profile that are related to a given query of an information space by a given user to present potentially serendipitous data for use by the user in combination with any information gained from the information space.

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