Patent ID: 7917492

Claim:
A computer-based information-aggregation-and-classification system comprising: a document-classifier; a document-classifier-constructor subcomponent that uses a collection of categorized and processed documents to construct the document-classifier; and an information-aggregator subcomponent that: obtains uncategorized documents from electronic information sources; filters the uncategorized documents to produce a set of normalized text documents by, for each uncategorized document: removing non-text items and symbols from the uncategorized document to produce a text document having text; parsing the text to organize the text of the text document into paragraphs and sentences within paragraphs to produce a paragraph-and-sentence-delimited text document; applying language-parsing routines to the paragraph-and-sentence-delimited text document to remove non-noun terms from the text to produce a noun-and-noun-phrase-culled text document; and filtering non-useful terms from normalized terms in the noun-and-noun-phrase-only text document to produce a normalized text document; applies an indexer to the set of normalized text documents to generate a term vector for each normalized text document in the set of normalized text documents; inputs the term vector computed for each normalized text document in the set of normalized text documents to assign a category to the normalized text document; and aggregates normalized text documents of each different category together to produce a normalized-text-document package for each category.