Method for organizing a plurality of documents and apparatus for displaying a plurality of documents
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1. A method for organizing a plurality of documents, comprising:
- clustering said plurality of documents;
organizing those documents having common features into respective clusters based on the result of the clustering;
clustering the documents contained in the respective generated clusters, and organizing those having common features into respective finer clusters.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for organizing a plurality of documents and an apparatus for displaying a plurality of documents. Said plurality of documents are clustered, and the resulted clusters of different levels are displayed as virtual directories, thus helping the user to navigate to the target document quickly. The navigation may be performed with the aid of topics and abstracts. Furthermore, the user'"'"'s operations may be reduced through controlling the displayed contents to be within the size of the screen.
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1. A method for organizing a plurality of documents, comprising:
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clustering said plurality of documents;
organizing those documents having common features into respective clusters based on the result of the clustering;
clustering the documents contained in the respective generated clusters, and organizing those having common features into respective finer clusters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus for displaying a plurality of documents, comprising:
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clustering means for;
clustering said plurality of documents, organizing those documents having common features into respective clusters based on the result of the clustering, clustering the documents contained in the respective generated clusters, and organizing those having common features into respective finer clusters;
a display device for dynamically displaying on the user interface said plurality of documents, document titles or clusters; and
a controller for controlling said display device to display the clusters of different levels as virtual folders or virtual directories, each of which contains virtual folders or virtual directories of the clusters of lower level, the virtual folders or virtual directories of the clusters of the lowest levels contain titles of the documents. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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