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Title: Method for gathering and summarizing internet information

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1176222
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A computer method of gathering and summarizing large amounts of information comprises collecting information from a plurality of information sources (14, 51) according to respective maps (52) of the information sources (14), converting the collected information from a storage format to XML-language documents (26, 53) and storing the XML-language documents in a storage medium, searching for documents (55) according to a search query (13) having at least one term and identifying the documents (26) found in the search, and displaying the documents as nodes (33) of a tree structure (32) having links (34) and nodes (33) so as to indicate similarity of the documents to each other.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
Assignee:
UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)
Patent Number(s):
7,693,903
Application Number:
11/897,205
OSTI ID:
1176222
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (7)

Text-learning and related intelligent agents: a survey journal July 1999
Data clustering: a review journal September 1999
Theme-Based Retrieval of Web News book January 2001
Information agent technology for the Internet: A survey journal March 2001
Modeling supply-chain networks by a multi-agent system conference January 1998
XWRAP: an XML-enabled wrapper construction system for Web information sources conference January 2000
An architecture and category knowledge for intelligent information retrieval agents journal May 2000

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