Patent Document ID: 20080114763
Application ID: 12014068
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for displaying clusters, comprising: a generator to generate a plurality of clusters, which each comprise one or more documents and identifying a cluster concept selected from the documents; a selection module to select the cluster concepts that satisfy an acceptance criteria and forming spines from the clusters associated therewith; a best fit assignor to assign the clusters comprising the cluster concepts not selected to one of the spines, which provides a best fit with the cluster concept; a spine placement module to place the spines into a display, wherein each placed spine is unique; an anchor cluster identification module to identify an anchor cluster with an open edge on the placed spines; and a visualization module to place one or more of the spines not already in the display, comprising: a similarity module to determine similarity between the non-placed spine and each anchor cluster and selecting the anchor cluster most similar; and an arrangement module to set the non-placed spine on the open edge of the anchor cluster.