Patent ID: 9396433
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: collecting multiple items of multi-modal data comprising a plurality of dimensions from multiple data stream originators, wherein said plurality of dimensions comprises at least a geographic dimension, a temporal dimension and an event-related dimension; annotating each of the multiple items of collected multi-modal data with information, wherein the information comprises at least a veracity score associated with the data stream originator of the item of data; determining multiple windows of relevance for the multiple items of multi-modal data with respect to the plurality of dimensions, wherein said multiple windows of relevance comprise at least (i) a temporal window of relevance, (ii) a spatial window of relevance, and (iii) and a semantic window of relevance; and identifying two or more of the multiple items of multi-modal data as related based on said veracity score associated with the data stream originator of each item of data and by determining an overlap of at least one of the multiple windows of relevance corresponding to each of the two or more items of multi-modal data with respect to at least one of the plurality of dimensions; wherein said collecting, said annotating, said determining, and said identifying are carried out by a computer device.