Apparatus and methods for accessing a collection of content portions
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method for accessing a collection of content portions, comprising:
- (a) determining multi-modal information for at least one content portion in the collection of content portions;
(b) determining proximal information for the at least one content portion in the collection of content portions, the proximal information including at least one proximate cue that surrounds a link and/or connection, the proximate cue including a word, text, image and/or sound;
(c) generating a plurality of centers for clustering content portions of the collection of content portions;
(d) clustering each content portion in the collection of content portions to a center of the plurality of centers having similar multi-modal information and proximal information;
(e) retaining content portions of at least one selected cluster;
(f) purging content portions of each non-selected cluster; and
(g) wherein, when at least two clusters are selected, merging the selected clusters.
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Abstract
Techniques for browsing through a large collection of content portions uses a scatter and gather approach where a collection of content portions is clustered into one or more clusters using multi-modal data modeling. Additionally, as part of the multi-modal data modeling, “proximal cues” surrounding links or connections or surrounding “image links” in a content portion are used to quickly identify the user'"'"'s information needs. Thus, taking into account proximal cues during multi-modal data modeling improves the scattering and the gathering process, as well as personalizes the scattering and the gathering process to most effectively cluster content portions of interest to the user.
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12 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method for accessing a collection of content portions, comprising:
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(a) determining multi-modal information for at least one content portion in the collection of content portions; (b) determining proximal information for the at least one content portion in the collection of content portions, the proximal information including at least one proximate cue that surrounds a link and/or connection, the proximate cue including a word, text, image and/or sound; (c) generating a plurality of centers for clustering content portions of the collection of content portions; (d) clustering each content portion in the collection of content portions to a center of the plurality of centers having similar multi-modal information and proximal information; (e) retaining content portions of at least one selected cluster; (f) purging content portions of each non-selected cluster; and (g) wherein, when at least two clusters are selected, merging the selected clusters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A system computer implemented usable to access a collection of content portions, comprising:
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a multi-modal determining circuit, routine or application usable to determine multi-modal information and proximal information for at least one content portion in a collection of content portions, the proximal information includes at least one proximate cue that surrounds a link and/or connection, the proximate cue includes a word, text, image and/or sound; and a clustering circuit, routine or application usable to generate a plurality of centers, and to cluster each content portion in the collection of content portions to one of the plurality of centers using the multi-modal information and proximal information of that content portion, wherein the clustering circuit, routine or application retains content portions of at least one selected cluster and purges content portions of each non-selected cluster and merges selected clusters when at least two clusters are selected. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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