Patent Document ID: 20080133479
Application ID: 11606469
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer program product, residing on a computer-readable medium, for use in accessing information associated with a collection of items, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing a computer to: access a plurality of items and a first plurality of properties, each item being associated with one or more properties from the first plurality of properties; obtain an original result set of at least one item from the plurality of items in response to a search query; identify a second plurality of properties from the first plurality of properties, wherein each of the second plurality of properties is associated with at least one item in the original result set; group a third plurality of properties selected from the second plurality of properties into one or more clusters of properties by applying a similarity measure to assign more similar properties to the same cluster and less similar properties to distinct clusters, wherein at least one cluster includes two or more properties; and provide a response to the search query including a representation of at least one cluster of the one or more clusters of properties.