Techniques for personalized and adaptive search services
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- sending a query to a plurality of information sources; and
ranking the information sources based on scores for results returned by the plurality of information sources.
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Abstract
Techniques are presented for automatically selecting information sources that are most relevant to user queries. Results of searches returned by information sources for queries are analyzed and the information sources are ranked based on this analysis. The information sources that have high rankings for a query are subsequently used to search for relevant results. This process can be adaptive, as the returned results of old queries can be analyzed at a later date to update the ranking of the information sources, automatic searches can be performed to update the ranking of the information sources, new queries can be used for analysis and stored, new information sources added, and old information sources deleted. A linguistic library is used to store personal categories for one or more users. and general categories. Each category is associated with keywords and ranked lists of information sources. The library also contains general categories, taxonomies, and dictionaries.
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19 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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sending a query to a plurality of information sources; and
ranking the information sources based on scores for results returned by the plurality of information sources. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An apparatus comprising:
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one ore more memories that store computer-readable code; and
one or more processors operatively coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors configured to implement the computer-readable code, the computer-readable code configured to;
send a query to a plurality of information sources; and
rank the information sources based on scores for results returned by the plurality of information sources.
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19. An article of manufacture comprising:
a computer-readable medium having computer-readable code means embodied thereon, said computer-readable program code means comprising;
a step to send a query to a plurality of information sources; and
a step to rank the information sources based on scores for results returned by the plurality of information sources.
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