System for collecting and displaying summary information from disparate sources
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSteven R. Abrams, David H. Jameson
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Abstract
A system is described for collecting and displaying summary information from disparate sources. The system provides for user customization of data acquisition parameters for locating articles to be summarized, user customization of parameters for parsing the located source material so as to extract headlines, and user organization of extracted headlines into groups.
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A system for collecting and displaying summary information from disparate sources, comprising:
- a user definable database of data sources, each said source being accessible via a protocol and having data acquisition procedures for taking the data into a common format, at least one of said sources having a protocol and data acquisition procedures disparate from the protocol and data acquisition procedures of at least one other source;
- data acquisition means for locating each of said data sources, said data acquisition means having lookup parameters configurable by said user into one or more source acquisition profiles;
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- parsing means for extracting summary information from each of said data sources, said parsing means having parser parameters configurable by said user into one or more parser profiles, each said parser profile being applicable to one or more of said data sources, such that when parser profile is applied to a data source said parser profile extracts said summary information, each said parser profile being configured by a trial-and-error method using immediate display of results of application of said parser parameters to said one or more data sources.
A configurator system comprising:
- a parser for extracting summary information from a data source, said parser being operable through application of parser parameters configurable by a user;
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- a user interface for presenting information from said data source to a user and for enabling said user to configure said parser parameters by selectively applying one or more of said parser parameters to said data source information and by displaying results from said application, wherein said user repeats said selection until satisfied with said displayed results.
A method for collecting and displaying summary information from disparate sources, comprising the steps of:
- using lookup parameters to locate data sources, said lookup parameters being configurable by a user into one or more source acquisition profiles;
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- using parser parameters to extract summary information from each of said data sources, said parser parameters being configurable by said user into one or more parser profiles, each said parser profile being applicable to one or more of said data sources, such that when applied to a data source said parser profile extracts said summary information, each said parser profile being configured by a trial-and-error method using immediate display of results of application of said parser parameters to said one or more data sources.
A method of presenting summary information, comprising the steps of:
- applying parser parameters to extract summary information from a data source, said parser parameters being configurable by a user;
- presenting information from said data source to a user;
- enabling said user to configure said parser parameters by selectively applying one or more of said parser parameters to said data source information;
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- displaying results from said selective application, wherein said user repeats said selection and application until satisfied with said displayed results.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.