Patent ID: 7502789
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for controlling a computing device to determine importance of news events, by a method comprising: crawling news home pages of web sites to identify news reports reporting news events; calculating importance weights of the identified news reports reporting news events based on credibility of the crawled news home pages, the credibility of a news home page based on the importance weights of news reports that are referenced by the news home page, the calculating of the importance weight including calculating a credibility weight of each news home page based on importance weights of news reports reported by a news home page and the importance weight of each news report based on the credibility weight of the news home page that reports the news report, wherein the importance weight of a news report is defined recursively based on the credibility weight of the news home page that reports the news report and the credibility weight of a news home page is defined recursively based on the importance weight of the news reports that it reports; and identifying the importance of a news event is based on importance weight of news reports reporting the news event.