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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007

Filed:

Jan. 20, 2004
Applicants:

Noel S. Omega, Panorama City, CA (US);

Paul B. Gloger, San Marino, CA (US);

Daniel W. Manchala, Torrance, CA (US);

John C. Wenn, Ii, Redondo Beach, CA (US);

Leonid Orlov, Hermosa Beach, CA (US);

Yoon J. Jhong, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Youngseok Seo, Fullerton, CA (US);

Inventors:

Noel S. Omega, Panorama City, CA (US);

Paul B. Gloger, San Marino, CA (US);

Daniel W. Manchala, Torrance, CA (US);

John C. Wenn, II, Redondo Beach, CA (US);

Leonid Orlov, Hermosa Beach, CA (US);

Yoon J. Jhong, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Youngseok Seo, Fullerton, CA (US);

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of organizing electronic document-related information at least includes generating a collection of electronic documents, forming from the collection, at least one cluster of documents based upon a user's selection of a subject, and determining for each author of documents in the cluster, the number of times each the author is an author of a document corresponding to the subject. The authors are ranked and presented to the user in the form of an index. The ranked index can be interpreted as a ranking of subject matter experts.


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