Patent ID: 7917519
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-based method for determining patterns of information in at least one categorized collection, the method comprising: acquiring categorized information comprising at least one source collection consisting of documents, retrievable information other than documents, and combinations thereof, classified with at least a first taxa-based classification scheme; acquiring an Information Retrieval (IR) engine and at least one IR query; applying the at least one IR query and the IR retrieval engine for assigning numerical scores indicating relevance of each document, retrievable information other than documents, or combination thereof for each category or set of categories in the at least first taxa based classification scheme; mapping the numerical scores with regard to the at least first taxa-based classification scheme, and creating therefrom a numerical mapping record, thereby associating the category or categories in the taxa-based classification scheme to the at least one IR query; examining the numerical mapping record for presence of one or more patterns of numerical scores; and displaying a report comprising the patterns of numerical scores.