Patent Document ID: 7899249
Application ID: 11644009

Base Claim:
1. A computer-based media material analyzer for analyzing data representative of media material having a layout and including one or more continuing articles that extend across multiple pages, comprising: (a) a computer-based segmenter that identifies block segments associated with columnar body text in the media material pages; and (b) a computer-based article composer that determines which of the identified block segments belong to a continuing article extending across multiple pages in the media material based on language statistics information and continuation transition information.

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Claim 2:
2. The media material analyzer of claim 1 , wherein the article composer includes a continuation layout transition analyzer that identifies a last block segment associated with a candidate continuing article portion in a first page, identifies one or more items below the last block segment, classifies the last block segment based on at least one feature of the identified one or more items, and applies a decision tree to pick out one or more continuation transition features indicative of the probability of the last block segment being in a continuing article.