Patent Document ID: 8706770
Application ID: 11726546
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage media including a plurality of exemplar structures created by a computer, each exemplar structure denoting at least one example of a property of an object selected by a user of the computer from a collection of objects having the same property, each exemplar structure including: the user selected object; an exemplar associated with the selected object and the property, wherein the exemplar represents one of a plurality of possible meanings of a property; at least one broader term assigned to the exemplar to set the exemplar in a particular context, wherein the context defines which of the plurality of possible meanings the exemplar represents, and the user selects the broader term from a predefined database of broader terms; a plurality of attributes associated with the exemplar, which are distinguishing features of the exemplar; and a plurality of synsets associated with the attributes, wherein at least one synset and a corresponding rank are displayed by the computer for selection by the user each time one of the attributes is associated with the exemplar, and each synset is a cluster of like-meaning words representing one sense of a word.