Patent Document ID: 7672951
Application ID: 11383169

Base Claim:
1. A method for classifying content, comprising: providing a taxonomy containing facets; associating different intra-document classifiers with the facets in the taxonomy, the different intra-document classifiers defining different separate sections or sub-sections of content within each document that are each separately classified; receiving, at a computer server, a query; retrieving, by the computer server, documents responsive to the query; selecting, by the computer server, different ones of the facets for classifying the retrieved documents; identifying, by the computer server, the intra-document classifiers associated with the selected facets; identifying, by the computer server, different individual sections or subsections within the individual retrieved documents corresponding with the identified intra-document classifiers associated with the selected facets; identifying, by the computer server, any of the identified individual sections or subsections within the individual retrieved documents corresponding with the identified intra-document classifiers that contain similar text or concepts as text or concepts associated with the query and that also have similar text or concepts as text or concepts associated with the selected facets; providing, by the computer server, any of the individual retrieved documents containing the identified individual sections or subsections as answers to the query; and wherein a first portion less than all of a particular one of the individual retrieved documents is identified as being one of the identified individual sections or subsections that contains similar text or concepts as text or concepts associated with the query, wherein a second portion less than all of the particular document is not identified being one of the identified individual sections or subsections that contains similar text or concepts as text or concepts associated with the query, and wherein the particular document is provided as at least a part of the answers.

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Claim 5:
5. The method according to claim 1 including using a matching language in the intra-document classifiers to identify the text or concepts associated with the selected facets.