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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2009
Nick Koudas, Toronto, CA;
Nilesh Bansal, Toronto, CA;
Nick Koudas, Toronto, CA;
Nilesh Bansal, Toronto, CA;
Sysomos Inc., Toronto, CA;
Abstract
A method for searching text sources including temporally-ordered data objects, such as a blog, is provided including the steps of: (i) providing access to text sources, each text source including temporally-ordered data objects; (ii) obtaining or generating a search query based on terms and time intervals; (iii) obtaining or generating time data associated with the data objects; (iv) identifying data objects based on the search query; and (v) generating popularity curves based on the frequency of data objects corresponding to one or more of the search terms in the one or more time intervals. A system and computer program for text source searching is also provided.