Patent ID: 7853871
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: grouping, by a processor, items on a content page into segments in response to weightings of individual nodes associated with respective items being within a predetermined threshold difference of an average weighting for a respective segment; merging smaller segments into larger segments based upon predefined criteria, the smaller segments and the larger segments being segments formed by the grouping of the items, wherein merging the smaller segments into the larger segments includes merging a first segment into a second segment when the second segment neighbors the first segment either above, below, to the left, or the right of the first segment, and the first segment and the second segment are either left or top aligned; and dividing segments formed by the grouping of items that fail to meet predefined constraints into sub-segments, until the sub-segments meet the predefined constraints.