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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2002
David L. Gilmour, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Tacit Software, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of assigning a confidence level to a term within an electronic document, such as an e-mail, includes the step of firstly determining a quantitative indicator in the exemplary form of an occurrence value, based on the number of occurrences of a particular term within an electronic document, and associating the occurrence term within the relevant term. Thereafter, a qualitative indicator, based on a quality of the term, is determined. For example, the qualitative indicator may be determined utilizing the parts of speech of words comprising the term. A confidence level value, which may be utilized to indicate a relative importance of the term in describing a user knowledge base, is then generated utilizing the quantitative and qualitative indicators.