Patent ID: 7062487
Filing Date: 2006-06-13
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An information categorizing method comprising: a step of acquiring, through a clustering module, a plurality of search results searched by a search service, a step of performing, through the clustering module, a clustering process on the search results that categorizes the search results into a clustering result that comprises a plurality of clusters, each cluster having an identifier and all search results assigned to that cluster by the clustering process, the identifiers being presented in a non-hierarchical arrangement, a step of generating a non-hierarchical clustering result summary table representing a summary of the clustering result, the non-hierarchical clustering result summary table containing no search results, and a step of outputting the non-hierarchical summary table together with the clustering result such that all of the search results are displayed, each search result being displayed in one or more of the clusters, wherein neither the clustering process performing step nor the clustering result is based on any predefined categories and wherein the summary table and the clustering result are distinct.