Patent ID: 6298350
Filing Date: 2001-10-02
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for automatically processing information materials consisting of detecting, in the processed materials, data that can be described as relevant to a user, fixing the presence of said data, connecting said data to elements of information needed by the user, and using said elements and their combinations to provide the content of the processed materials to the user, comprising the steps ofthe processing is performed in an interactive way, by means of exhibiting sequentially separated sense fragments on which the information materials that are being processed are subdivided as to types of fragments subdivided, and demonstrating said elements of the information needed by the user in visual or audiovisual forms, said processing detecting whether a sense relationship exists between the content of a defined fragment or different other relationships of the given fragments,and in the case that a sense relationship is detected between the content of one specific fragment and one or another element of the user's information need, fixing the existence of said relationship by generating an individual feature for each of the elements in which the relationship is detected,and in the case that a relationship of a different order of one given fragment to different elements of the information needed by the user is detected, generating the features of said elements to a variety of levels or orders in accordance with the number of detected grades in the relationship,after which an image of a local structure is formed, wherein said structure is related to the given fragment of structure and is represented as a marked, connected, undirected graph having nodes to which elements of the information need of the user, an information need that has created the features of relations and content in such graph, are assigned, said nodes having higher nodes and lower nodes,said graph being fully connected, and in the case that no single one of the elements of the information need of the user is dominating but rather the features that indicated these elements belong to different levels in accordance with detected differences in the density of their relationship to the content of the given fragment, then each of the higher nodes being coupled with all of the lower nodes,and in the case of the existence of more than one node at the highest level, each of said nodes being also coupled with the others,and, after completing the formation of an image of the local structure for the last fragment of material to be processed, generating an image of an integrated graph by means of the logical additions of graphs all of which present local structures with equal multiple edges,and reflecting the result of this processing in a visual form by manipulating the multiple edges, geometrical images, sizes and colors and by a digital indication of the multiplicity of edges in the integrated graph that is obtained, as a whole or in separate components, as an indicator of the degree in the mutual relationship of a particular problem in matching up materials to the elements of the information need of the user, to which the nodes of the integrated graph correspond.