Patent Document ID: 7818323
Application ID: 12034964
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for automatically discovering topical structures of at least one database comprising tables, said method comprising: computing various kinds of representations for said database based on schema information and data values of said database, wherein said representations comprise representations that are at least two of: vector-based representations; graph-based representations; and similarity-based representations; performing preliminary topical clustering of tables within said database to produce a plurality of clusterings, such that each of said clusterings corresponds to one representation; aggregating results of said clusterings into a final clustering, such that said final clustering comprises a plurality of topical clusters; identifying representative tables from said topical clusters in said final clustering, wherein at least one representative table is identified for each of said topical clusters in said final clustering; arranging said representative tables by topic as a topical directory of said representative tables; and outputting said topical directory.