Patent ID: 8463790
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A machine-implemented method comprising: identifying an event for a particular category based on a first quantity of documents classified as relevant to the particular category in a first period of time compared with a second quantity of documents relevant to the particular category in a previous, second period of time; identifying a first set of key words in the first quantity of documents and a second set of key words in the second quantity of documents; based on a comparison of the first set of key words to the second set of key words, identifying a set of event keywords more prevalent in the documents classified as relevant to the particular category in the first period of time than in the documents classified as relevant to the particular category in the second period of time; calculating scores for each of the first quantity of documents based on appearances of the event keywords in the documents; automatically selecting a highest scoring document as a representative document for the event and identifying a link to the representative document; automatically determining whether the representative document is still accessible at the identified link; and when the representative document is no longer accessible at the identified link, replacing the highest scoring document with a next highest scoring document as the representative document for the event.