Patent Document ID: 8112707
Application ID: 11451198

Base Claim:
1. A method for determining information of interest of a user in an information source or a document corpus, comprising the steps of: determining a private ontology of the user, wherein the private ontology comprises definitions of semantic items, wherein each of said semantic items is classified into one of a thing, a type of thing, a characteristic, a value of a characteristic, and a way of relating things, and wherein the private ontology defines a relationship between the semantic items; capturing a reading style of the user, wherein said reading style is a set of one or more declared patterns from a training document, wherein each declared pattern identifies one of said semantic items in said private ontology, and wherein capturing reading style comprises: capturing said classification of each selected text sample within said information source into one of the semantic items defined by the user; and capturing relationship between the semantic items defined by the user; determining a reading plan of the user, wherein the reading plan comprises a set of reading plan steps defined by the user that identifies and controls evaluation sequence of text within one or more source documents within the information source; creating a worldview of the user using said reading style, said reading plan and said private ontology, wherein the worldview reflects a logic and structure with which a user comprehends a document; applying said worldview to said document corpus for determining said information of interest, wherein the information of interest is the information in the document corpus that semantically matches the information in the training document; and reporting the information of interest to the user.

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Claim 15:
15. The method of claim 1 , wherein classification of the selected sample text and the relationship between semantic items defined by the user items is used to update the reading style system, private ontology and conceptionary.