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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:
Jan. 11, 2011

Filed:

May. 24, 2007
Applicants:

Ira Cohen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Blaine Nelson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ira Cohen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Blaine Nelson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for clustering data using pairwise constraints that includes receiving a set of data for clustering, the set of data includes a plurality of data units; identifying soft pairwise constraints, each indicating a relationship between two of the plurality of data units in the set of data and having an associated confidence level indicating a probability that each pairwise constraint is present; and clustering the plurality of data units in the set of data into a plurality of data partitions based at least on a chunklet modeling technique that employs the soft pairwise constraints.


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