Intelligent information retrieval system
First Claim
1. An intelligent information retrieval system which identifies information relating to a plurality of different topics, the system comprising:
- a first computer program coupled to source repositories, each of the plurality of topics being associated with a particular source repository, the first computer programidentifying sources which may contain information relating to the plurality of topics, andmodifying the source repository to which a particular topic is associated to include sources identified by the first computer program that contain information relating to the particular topic; and
one or more second computer programs coupled to one or more message repositories for the plurality of topics, each of the plurality of topics being associated with a particular message repository, the one or more second computer programs identifying information at the sources included in the source repositories as relating to the topics; and
storing the identified information in the message repository to which the topic is associated.
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Abstract
A system for retrieving information related to a topic of interest, comprising: (a) a finder for finding a location of a computerized source of information, the information being divided into at least one message, such that the source of information is a located source of information, the finder being a self-operated software program; (b) a source repository for storing the location of the located source of information; (c) a sampler for sampling the located source of information by retrieving the at least one message from the located source of information, such that the at least one message is a retrieved message, the sampler being a self-operated software program; (d) a matcher for determining a matching score for the retrieved message, the matcher being a self-operated software program; and (e) a message repository for storing the retrieved message and the matching score.
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33 Claims
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1. An intelligent information retrieval system which identifies information relating to a plurality of different topics, the system comprising:
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a first computer program coupled to source repositories, each of the plurality of topics being associated with a particular source repository, the first computer program identifying sources which may contain information relating to the plurality of topics, and modifying the source repository to which a particular topic is associated to include sources identified by the first computer program that contain information relating to the particular topic; and one or more second computer programs coupled to one or more message repositories for the plurality of topics, each of the plurality of topics being associated with a particular message repository, the one or more second computer programs identifying information at the sources included in the source repositories as relating to the topics; and storing the identified information in the message repository to which the topic is associated. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of providing information retrieval over a computer network, the method comprising:
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receiving a first request, the first request specifying a topic; generating a source repository comprised of a plurality of sources for the topic wherein generating a source repository is performed using identification methods which include non-keyword searching based analyses; using the source repository to generate a message repository comprised of a plurality of information for the topic; receiving a second request, the second request for information related to the topic; and sending at least one of the plurality of information in the message repository by the topic responsive to the second request. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method of providing information retrieval over a computer network, the method comprising:
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taking a plurality of source repositories, each source repository including sources relating to a particular topic and a plurality of message repositories, each message repository including information relating to a particular topic; modifying the plurality of source repositories by identifying a source which contains information relating to a particular topic, and modifying the source repository to which the particular topic is related to include the identified source, wherein identifying is performed using identification methods which include non-keyed searching based analyses; and storing information relating to the topics by identifying information in the sources relating to the particular topics, and modifying the message repository to which the particular topic is related to include the information identified as relating to the particular topic. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30)
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31. A method of identifying sources of information for a topic over a computer network, the method comprising:
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taking a source repository including sources relating to a topic; analyzing the sources in the source repository including using a plurality of non-keyword searching based analyses to identify new sources relating to the topic; and adding the new sources relating to the topic. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33)
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