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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:
Jan. 01, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2005
Thomas E. Potok, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Mark Thomas Elmore, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Joel Wesley Reed, Knoxville, TN (US);
Jim N. Treadwell, Louisville, TN (US);
Nagiza Faridovna Samatova, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Thomas E. Potok, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Mark Thomas Elmore, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Joel Wesley Reed, Knoxville, TN (US);
Jim N. Treadwell, Louisville, TN (US);
Nagiza Faridovna Samatova, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
A computer method of gathering and summarizing large amounts of information comprises collecting information from a plurality of information sources () according to respective maps () of the information sources (), converting the collected information from a storage format to XML-language documents () and storing the XML-language documents in a storage medium, searching for documents () according to a search query () having at least one term and identifying the documents () found in the search, and displaying the documents as nodes () of a tree structure () having links () and nodes () so as to indicate similarity of the documents to each other.