US 7,257,571 B2 · Automatic query clustering

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and methodology for automatic clusterization and display of data items in a local or remote database system. Such clusterization can be based on properties associated with the data items such as a type, location, people, date, time, user-defined, and so forth, wherein an initial property may be employed to form a first level of clusterization and a subsequent property may be automatically determined to form an optimized clusterization from which to find and retrieve desired information. A computerized interface for organizing and retrieving data is provided. The interface includes a property analyzer to determine an item distribution for at least two cluster properties and an organizer that forms new clusters based in part on the item distribution.

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Dependent claims

A computerized interface for data presentation, comprising:

a property analyzer that determines an item distribution and forms a plurality of first-level clusters based in part on a first property of a plurality of properties, and automatically determines a respective item distribution for each other property of the plurality of properties, calculates a clusterization score for each other property based on the respective item distribution, and selects one other property having a highest clusterization score;
and
an organizer that automatically forms a plurality of new clusters based in part on the one other property, and presents the plurality of new clusters.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Automatic query clustering

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Abstract

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