COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TRACKING CONTENT
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Abstract
A system, method, and program product for tracking content are described. Aspects of invention allow bodies of content, whether from a common channel or from different channels, to be compared for relatedness. Comparison of different bodies of content involves analyzing both the actual content, characteristics of the source(s) of the content, and optionally, elapsed time between their respective broadcasts/communications. To this extent, a content similarity value, a source characteristic value and an optional temporal value for the portions of content are determined, and then used to compute a relatedness value of the (bodies of) content.
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39 Claims
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21. A computer-implemented method for tracking content, comprising:
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determining a content similarity value based on concepts appearing in a first content and a second content; determining a source characteristic value corresponding to at least one source of the first content and the second content; and computing a relatedness value between the first content and the second content using the content similarity value and the source characteristic value. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A system for tracking content, comprising:
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a content similarity value system for determining a content similarity value based on concepts appearing in a first content and a second content; a source characteristic value system for determining a source characteristic value corresponding to at least one source of the first content and the second content; and a computation system for computing a relatedness value between the first content and the second content using the content similarity value and the source characteristic value. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A program product stored on computer-useable medium for tracking content, the computer-useable medium comprising program code for causing a computer system to perform the following steps:
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determining a content similarity value based on a count of concepts appearing in both a first content and a second content, a count of the concepts appearing in the first content but not the second content, and a count of the concepts appearing in the second content but not the first content; determining a source characteristic value corresponding to at least one source of the first content and the second content; and computing a relatedness value between the first content and the second content using the content similarity value and the source characteristic value. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A method for deploying an application for tracking content, comprising:
providing a computer infrastructure being operable to; determine a content similarity value based on concepts appearing in a first content and a second content; determine a source characteristic value corresponding to at least one source of the first content and the second content; and compute a relatedness value between the first content and the second content using the content similarity value and the source characteristic value.
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