Patent Document ID: 8239335
Application ID: 13033536

Base Claim:
1. An article of manufacture comprising: a non-transitory program storage medium readable by a computer, where the medium tangibly embodies one or more programs of instructions executable by a computer to perform a method of data classification, the one or more programs of instructions comprising: instructions for receiving at least one labeled seed document; instructions for receiving unlabeled documents; instructions for receiving at least one predetermined cost factor; instructions for training a transductive classifier using the at least one predetermined cost factor, the at least one seed document, and the unlabeled documents; instructions for classifying the unlabeled documents having a confidence level above a predefined threshold into a plurality of categories using the classifier; instructions for reclassifying at least some of the categorized documents previously categorized by a different classifier into the categories using the classifier; and instructions for outputting identifiers of the categorized documents to at least one of a user, another system, and another process.

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Claim 3:
3. The article of manufacture of claim 1 , further comprising instructions for training the transductive classifier through iterative calculation using at least one predetermined cost factor, the at least one seed document, and the unlabeled documents, wherein for each iteration of the calculations the cost factor is adjusted as a function of an expected label value, and using the trained classifier to classify the unlabeled documents.