Patent ID: 7137067

Claim:
A computing device comprising a processor and memory for extracting useful information from news information and presenting the information to a user, comprising: a news information division unit breaking down the news information in units of articles; a useful article selection unit selecting useful articles from the broken-down articles; and a news information re-editing unit collecting the selected articles, re-editing the articles in a form of news information suited to be presented to a user and outputting the re-edited articles, wherein the useful article selection unit includes: an article grouping unit classifying the broken-down articles into a plurality of groups based on similarity degree among the broken-down articles; an article group selection unit selecting one or more groups from the plurality of the groups based on topicality degree for indicating degree of topicality of each of the groups; and a typical article selection unit selecting one or more articles from articles belonging to each of the selected groups and designating the articles as typical articles of the group, wherein the similarity degree among all combinations of two articles are calculated using keywords extracted from the two articles for all articles within a target time period designated by the user, and articles with high similarity degree are formed into one related article group, wherein the topicality degree of each related article group is calculated based on a total number of articles and a number of information sources are calculated for each related article group, wherein the related article group with the topicality degree exceeding a predetermined threshold value is selected as a key related article group, and wherein the typical article is selected for each selected key related article group belonging to the key related article group based on a requirement set by the user.