Patent Document ID: 8543380
Application ID: 12243099

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: accessing a record stored in one or more tangible media, the record recording a plurality of clusters of a plurality of documents, a document comprising a plurality of words, a cluster comprising a plurality of satisfactorily affine words of the plurality of words, a cluster indicating a theme; establishing a number of themes of each document of at least a subset of the plurality of documents; determining a specificity of the each document according to the number of themes by: determining that the each document is more specific if the each document has a lower number of themes; and determining that the each document is less specific if the each document has a higher number of themes; receiving a search query comprising a document specificity request, the document specificity indicated using a slider; and retrieving one or more documents of the plurality of documents that satisfy the search query and the document specificity request.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , the establishing the number of themes of the each document of at least the subset of the plurality of documents further comprising: determining a number of clusters of the each document; and calculating the number of themes of the each document from the number of clusters.