Patent ID: 7028053

Claim:
A computer implemented method for accessing a collection of content portions, comprising: (a) determining multi-modal information for at least one content portion in the collection of content portions; (b) determining proximal information for the at least one content portion in the collection of content portions, the proximal information including at least one proximate cue that surrounds a link and/or connection, the proximate cue including a word, text, image and/or sound; (c) generating a plurality of centers for clustering content portions of the collection of content portions; (d) clustering each content portion in the collection of content portions to a center of the plurality of centers having similar multi-modal information and proximal information; (e) retaining content portions of at least one selected cluster; (f) purging content portions of each non-selected cluster; and (g) wherein, when at least two clusters are selected, merging the selected clusters.