Patent ID: 7065514

Claim:
A method of classifying one or more documents in a classification scheme including two or more classes, with each class having one or more classified document summaries, the method comprising: summarizing a particular document to define a particular document summary; automatically generating a list of one or more of the classes, with each listed class having one or more classified document summaries which are similar to the particular document summary, wherein generating a list of one or more of the classes comprises: defining one or more natural-language or boolean queries based on the particular document summary; performing one or more searches of the classified document summaries based on one or more of the queries, with one or more of the searches yielding one or more found document summaries; ranking the one or more found document summaries based on relative similarity to the particular document summary to define one or more ranked document summaries; and generating the list based on one or more of the ranked document summaries; and classifying the particular document based on the list of classes.