Patent Document ID: 9110983
Application ID: 13588828

Base Claim:
1. An object space generation system comprising: a network controller to receive a plurality of textual descriptions, wherein each textual description includes one or more words and phrases that depict an object in a plurality of objects, wherein the plurality of textual descriptions is separate from the plurality of objects, and wherein the network controller comprises hardware; a first association module to determine a first degree of association between each of the plurality of textual descriptions and one or more topics to obtain first association information; a second association module to determine a second degree of association between each of the plurality of objects and the one or more topics to obtain second association information; a third association module to determine a third degree of association between each textual description and one or more words in the textual description to obtain third association information; a fourth association module to determine a fourth degree of association between each word and the one or more topics to obtain fourth association information, wherein the first association module further is to use the third and fourth association information to obtain the first association information, and the second association module further is to use the third and fourth association information to obtain the second association information; and a cluster module to group the plurality of objects into clusters based on the first association information and the second association information.

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Claim 5:
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first association module further to use a probabilistic graphical model (PGM) to propagate the fourth association information to the plurality of textual descriptions.