Patent ID: 8452781
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for using banded topic relevance and time for article prioritization, comprising: maintaining articles of digital information and at least one social index comprising topics that each relate to one or more of the articles; retrieving fine-grained topic models matched to the digital information for each topic; succinctly classifying the articles under the topics by testing the articles against the fine-grained topic models; for each topic in the at least one social index, maintaining a coarse-grained topic model comprising: for each of the articles within the topic under which the article was classified, accumulating the scores of the characteristic words into a relevancy score for that article; selecting only the articles within the topic having relevancy scores satisfying a minimum threshold relevancy; for each topic in the at least one social index, arranging the selected articles into discrete bands with each discrete band representing comparable levels of relevancy, comprising: temporally sorting the articles within each of the discrete bands; and presenting the temporally-sorted articles within the discrete bands.