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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1996
Paul Francis, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Kambayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Satou, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information navigation system based on an information resource topology among information resources in which each information resource is associated with at least one term combination and a set of links, where each term combination specifies a set of terms describing each information resource and each link links information resources with matching term combinations, and for every existing term combination, a set of information resources that contain said every existing term combination form a cluster, where a cluster is defined as a set of information resources for which there exists at least one path between every pair of information resources in said set of information resources such that said at least one path contains only information resources from said set of information resources and a path is defined as a series of information resources connected through links. The information navigation functions including gathering, searching, and topology managing can be realized on this the information resource topology.