Patent ID: 7747625

Claim:
A method of organizing, a collection of objects arranged in a sequence ordered in accordance with a selected dimension of context-related metadata respectively associated with the objects, comprising operating a processor to perform operations comprising: classifying the objects in the sequence to generate a series of object clusters, wherein the classifying comprises sequentially processing each of the objects as a respective candidate for segmentation into a respective current one of the object clusters in the series and, for each of the candidate objects, determining a candidate object interval separating the candidate object from an adjacent object in the sequence already segmented into the current object cluster, the candidate object interval being measured in the selected dimension of the context-related metadata, comparing the candidate object interval to a weighted measure of cluster extent for the current object cluster, the measure of cluster extent corresponding to a current distance spanned by all the objects in the current object cluster measured in the selected dimension of the context-related metadata, and comparing the candidate object interval to a weighted measure of object density for the current object cluster, the measure of object density corresponding to a measure of distribution of distances separating adjacent ones of the objects in the current object cluster measured in the selected dimension of the context-related metadata.