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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
May. 01, 1996
Joe R Hill, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory J Thompson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A process is provided for mapping the relationship of the content of a collection of documents (14). The process includes providing a collection (12) of documents (14) where each document (14) includes text. Relevance measures are determined that represent a relevance between each pair of documents (14) based upon the text of the documents (14). A graph (22) is then generated that has nodes (30) and edges (32) with each edge (32) connecting two nodes (30). The graph (22) has a node (30) associated with each document (14) and has an edge (32) connecting nodes (30) for which the relevance measure between associated documents (14) is greater than a specified threshold. In this manner, the graph (22) maps the relationship of the content of the collection (12) of documents (14).