Patent ID: 7849399
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method to link authorship information to substrings of an electronic target string of symbols, wherein said electronic target string differs from an electronic reference string of symbols, the method comprising the steps of: splitting the electronic reference string of symbols into a reference sequence of substrings and splitting the electronic target string of symbols into a target sequence of substrings; arranging the substrings of the target sequence and the substrings of the reference sequence in a sequence alignment; determining aligned and unaligned substrings in the target sequence and the reference sequence; excluding at least one of the aligned substrings from subsequent steps of arranging the substrings in a sequence alignment; repeating the steps of arranging the substrings in a sequence alignment, determining aligned and unaligned substrings, and excluding the aligned substrings until no significant alignment can be obtained; and linking authorship information associated with the electronic target string of symbols to the unaligned substrings of the target sequence.