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Information management system

  • US 9,575,980 B2
  • Filed: 08/18/2015
  • Issued: 02/21/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating an information management system, comprising:

  • obtaining a first collection of source files;

    for each source file in the first collection;

    parsing, by a processor of a computing device, the respective source file to extract one or more tags,comparing, by the processor, the one or more tags to tags in at least one dictionary to determine one or more matching tags, wherein the at least one dictionary comprises a hierarchical listing of tags, andassociating, by the processor, with the respective source file, the one or more matching tags;

    generating, by the processor, a first virtual relational network comprising the source files in the first collection, wherein the first virtual relational network comprises;

    one or more nodes, wherein each node of the one or more nodes represents a particular matching tag of the one or more matching tags associated with a particular source file of the source files in the first collection, andone or more links, wherein each link of the one or more links represents a connection between a pair of nodes, wherein each node of the pair of nodes is associated with a same tag;

    comparing, by the processor, the first virtual relational network to a second virtual relational network to identify at least one of (a) nodes common to the first and second virtual relational networks, and (b) links common to the first and second virtual relational networks, whereinthe second virtual relational network is created from a second collection of source files different from the first collection of source files, andthe second virtual relational network is created using one or more dictionaries of the at least one dictionary; and

    displaying a graphical representation of at least part of the first and second virtual relational networks.

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