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Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2006
Applicants:

Chiranjit Acharya, San Jose, CA (US);

Tsunayuki Ohwa, Kawasaki, JP;

Mark Plutowski, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Takashi Usuki, Yokohama, JP;

Inventors:

Chiranjit Acharya, San Jose, CA (US);

Tsunayuki Ohwa, Kawasaki, JP;

Mark Plutowski, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Takashi Usuki, Yokohama, JP;

Assignees:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A computerized method of representing a dataset with a taxonomy includes representing a plurality of records within a dataset as a plurality of clusters in an initial taxonomy layer; generating a hierarchy of cluster sets based on clusters within the initial taxonomy layer, wherein the structure of the hierarchy is independent of the order of the records within the dataset; and labeling clusters within the hierarchy.


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