Patent ID: 6052714
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
An information filtering apparatus for providing articles to a user, comprising:retrieval means for retrieving a selected article from among articles, each having at least one paragraph, received from information sources according to retrieval conditions of the user, the retrieval conditions of the user including a profile in which words included in articles required for each user and a weight of the words are described, the retrieval means further includingmeans for calculating similarities between each paragraph of the articles received from the information sources and the words in the profile, andmeans for extracting a paragraph which has a largest similarity among similarities of all paragraphs;generation means for generating an abstract of the selected article retrieved by said retrieving means according to said retrieval conditions, the abstract including the extracted paragraph; andsending means for sending the abstract generated by said generating means to the user.