Patent ID: 6567797
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for providing document recommendations from a document collection based on multi-modal user clusters, comprising the steps of:identifying an initial set of users representing a subset of all possible users; identifying documents in the collection accessed by the initial set of users; for each user of the initial set of users, extrapolating from the documents accessed by the user to the content of the documents accessed by the user; clustering the initial set of users into a plurality of user clusters by representing each user of the initial set using the content of the documents accessed by the user; identifying a new user; collecting information about documents accessed by the new user; extrapolating from the documents accessed by the new user to the content of the documents accessed by the new user; and assigning the new user to a user cluster based upon similarity between the content of the documents accessed by the new user and the content of the documents accessed by other users included in the user cluster.