Patent Document ID: 8600985
Application ID: 13473136
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for classifying documents in a collection of documents according to their intended readerships, comprising: a computer configured to: select a document in the collection of documents; determine an intended readership of the selected document, the readership being: search engine readership, customer readership; or peer readership; classify the selected document as search engine readership, customer readership, or peer readership according to its determined characteristic; and repeat the steps of select a document, determine an intended readership of the selected document, and classify the selected document for additional documents in the collection; wherein at least some documents of the collection are classified as search engine readership, at least some documents are classified as customer readership, and at least some documents are classified as peer readership; and wherein the determining an intended readership of the document comprises: preparing a list that includes all stop words; counting the number of words in the document (n); counting the number of stop words in the list that occurred in the document (m); dividing the number of stop words in the list that occurred in the document by the number of words in the document to provide a ratio (m/n); and comparing the ratio (m/n) to a threshold value such that if the ratio is less than the threshold value, the document is classified as having the search engine readership.