| US 7,469,246 B1 | ||
| Method and system for classifying or clustering one item into multiple categories | ||
| John Lamping, Los Altos, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Stratify, Inc., Mountain View, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on May 18, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/860,646. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—6 [707/7] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A method for associating an item with at least one category selected from a collection of more than one hundred categories,
the method comprising:
providing a collection of more than one hundred categories, each category including a model, each model determining a process,
each process determining a degree of closeness to a set of features of items;
receiving an item;
determining a set of features associated with the item;
identifying two or more categories in the collection of more than one hundred categories that relate to the set of features,
the step of identifying comprising using the set of features with a process of each category in the two or more categories
to determine how well the set of features matches said each category;
forming a blended model from the identified two or more categories to derive a blended process such that the blended process
yields a closer fit to the set of features of the item than that of any single process of a category from the collection of
categories; and
associating the item to each of the two or more categories that were used to form the blended process, wherein the item becomes
associated with fewer than ten of the categories.
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