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Patent Title: Method and system for threading documents

Assignee: IBM
Patent Number: US6311198
Issue Date: 10-30-2001
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File Date:08-06-1998


Abstract: In order to efficiently thread n chronologically ordered documents, a similarity among the n documents is calculated and the similarity is employed to create a similarity matrix using time constraints, and is converted into an adjacency matrix for identifying a relationship among the n documents. By applying this threading method that employs the time constraints, a large quantity of article data can be efficiently threaded in the O(n) order. Users can easily access a large quantity of data and can understand the contents.

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