Patent ID: 8321455

Claim:
A method to categorize a plurality of informational items in an information retrieval computer system, the comprising: identifying, by the information retrieval computer system, one or more groupings of the informational items into one or more clusters; classifying, by the information retrieval computer system, said clusters by identifying rules to assign the informational items to a specific one of said clusters; summarizing, by the information retrieval computer system, each of said clusters by determining descriptive titles to uniquely identify each of said clusters; storing, by the information retrieval computer system, said human readable descriptive titles; identifying and describing, by the information retrieval computer system, said clustered informational items; searching, by the information retrieval computer system, said clustered informational item, said search being based on criteria that includes cluster description and specified informational items; and presenting, by the information retrieval computer system, the search result information as labeled clustered informational items.