Patent ID: 8832105
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of clustering news stories that are to be accessed over a computer network, comprising: obtaining a plurality of news articles via the computer network; clustering the news articles into a plurality of initial clusters; for a subset of the news articles in the initial clusters that are less than a predetermined age limit and any unclustered news articles that are less than the predetermined age limit, determining whether to form one or more new clusters or assign to the initial clusters in an incremental clustering process; and storing indications of the initial clusters and the one or more new clusters, if any, so as to be accessible for sending a portion of the news articles to users in a clustered format based on the initial clusters and the one or more new clusters, if any; wherein the news articles that are less than the predetermined age limit are defined as transient articles and the remaining news articles are defined as fixed articles, wherein the incremental clustering is withheld from being performed on the fixed articles so that the fixed articles retain their initial clusters; wherein the incremental clustering process is performed by: