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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2007
Peter Currie Boyle, Burnaby, CA;
Yu Zhang, Vancouver, CA;
Peter Currie Boyle, Burnaby, CA;
Yu Zhang, Vancouver, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for clustering data objects includes a module for calculating an importance value of at least one member in a first data object represented as a variable length vector of 0 to N members and a clustering module for dynamically forming a plurality of clusters containing one or more data objects. The clustering module is configured to associate the first data object with at least one of the plurality of clusters in dependence upon the at least one member's similarity value in comparison to members in other data objects. The clustering module may be configured to cluster the first data object into a plurality of clusters if it has at least two members and each member belongs to a different cluster.