Patent ID: 9244919
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method of identifying a book series, comprising: receiving book information describing one or more books from a book information server; creating book records identifying the books described by the book information, a book record having fields with values describing attributes of a given book in the books derived from the book information; clustering the book records into a plurality of clusters based on the values of a subset of the fields of the book records; identifying a set containing a plurality of related clusters of book records by determining similarity of values of fields of the clustered book records other than the subset of fields on which the records were clustered; identifying a separate series name candidate for each cluster in the set to produce a plurality of series name candidates; selecting a name of the book series from among the plurality of series name candidates by comparing the plurality of series name candidates to identify a predominant series name candidate; storing information describing the selected name of the book series in a repository; and identifying a set of books in the book series having the selected name.