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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2002
Paula S. Newman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Paula S. Newman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of visualizing and exploring tree structures whose interior nodes represent substantial amounts of logically related textual information. The method includes methods for partitioning tree-structured textual material into topically related clusters of adjacent items, then developing digests of each cluster. The digests include both shorter overviews and arbitrarily long summaries. The tree-structured material involved could be for example, but is not limited to, trees containing the messages and postings of an archived discussion within a newsgroup, discussion list, or on-line forum. This invention also provides methods for partitioning a two-dimensional tree visualization, called a treetable, into conveniently sized segments for detailed exploration.