Method and apparatus for sociological data mining

• US 20060253418A1
• Filed: 04/07/2006
• Published: 11/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sunrise, Series 54 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: Sunrise, Series 54 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Inventors: Holsinger, David J., Roberts, Steven L., Charnock, Elizabeth
• Application Number:
  US11/399,935
• Publication Number:
  US 20060253418A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/38 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access

Abstract

A processing system for retrieving interrelated documents is described. The system comprises a document repository for storing a plurality of documents, a metadata repository for storing a plurality of metadata elements to represent relations between the documents, and a sociological analysis engine to identify relationships between the documents using the metadata elements from the metadata repository.

Claims

1. A processing system for creating metadata to identify interrelated documents, comprising:

a metadata repository for storing a plurality of metadata elements to represent relations between a plurality of documents;

a sociological analysis engine to identify relationships between the documents using the metadata elements from the metadata repository.

2. The processing system recited in claim 1, wherein the metadata includes an actor.

3. The processing system of claim 2, wherein the sociological analysis engine automatically resolves references to an actor who has more than one electronic identity.

4. The processing system recited in claim 2, wherein the sociological analysis engine automatically resolves references to an actor who has more than one electronic personality.

5. The processing system recited in claim 1, wherein the sociological analysis engine detects missing data by reference to other documents within the corpus.

6. The processing system recited in claim 1, wherein the sociological analysis engine removes or otherwise makes unavailable documents or parts thereof deemed by the engine to be of a particular content type.

7. The processing system recited in claim 1, wherein the sociological analysis engine categorizes a plurality of documents by iteratively attempting to match the documents to multiple ontology classes, both individually and in combination.

8. The processing system recited in claim 1, wherein the sociological analysis engine determines the most likely correct term in a document that has been input using a process that is subject to error.

9-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A method of enabling document production comprising:

a document repository for storing a plurality of documents;

a metadata repository for storing a plurality of metadata elements to represent relations between the a plurality of documents;

a sociological analysis engine to identify relationships between the documents using the metadata elements from the metadata repository; and

a redaction tool to remove or otherwise makes unavailable documents or parts thereof deemed by the engine to be of a particular content type.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the content type is attorney-client protected documents.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the redaction tool creates a copy of any document having partial redactions, and ensures that the redacted data cannot be accessed from the document copy.