International Business Machines Corporation

Brian K Blanchard

Reiner Kraft

Matthew Denesuk

Gal Ashour

Arnon Amir

Amon Amir

A computing system and method receive a query; separate a plurality of information sources into individual elements of content (EOC); tag each EOC with metadata that indicate source, date, and other relevant information; pattern match each EOC; calculate the respective distance function from every EOC to every other EOC; and output EOC to a set of virtual buffers () containing appropriately related EOC less than a given distance value. The method further creates virtual summary buffers (); then concatenates the EOC in each virtual buffer (); applies a comparative analysis filter () to remove redundant sub-elements; and presents the results as summary digests ().

Synthesizing information-bearing content from multiple channels

A method receives a query; separates a plurality of information sources into individual elements of content (EOC); tags each EOC with metadata that indicate source, date, and other relevant information; pattern matches each EOC; calculates the respective distance function from every EOC to every other EOC; and outputs EOC to a set of virtual buffers () containing appropriately related EOC less than a given distance value. The method further creates virtual summary buffers (); concatenates the EOC in each virtual buffer (); applies a comparative analysis filter () to remove redundant sub-elements extracts context-preserving EOC, determined based upon a respective degree of corroboration of the context preserving EOC, from each respective concatenated EOC. The method synthesizes the content-preserving EOC extracted from each respective concatenated EOC into summary digests; and presents the results as summary digests ().

A computing system and method receive a query; separate a plurality of information sources into individual elements of content (EOC); tag each EOC with metadata that indicate source, date, and other relevant information; pattern match each EOC; calculate the distance function from every EOC to every other EOC; and output EOC to a set of virtual buffers () containing appropriately related EOC less than a given distance value. The method further creates virtual summary buffers (); then concatenates the EOC in each virtual buffer (); applies a comparative analysis filter () to remove redundant sub-elements; and presents the results as summary digests ().

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Brian K Blanchard