Temporal ranking scheme for desktop searching
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for providing search results to a user, the method comprising:
- accessing a group of items;
ranking each of the items based at least in part on a last access time and a class associated with the item, the class indicating a frequency of use of the item;
searching the group of items for a set of matching items; and
displaying at least some of the matching items according to the items'"'"' ranking.
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Abstract
A system for searching an object environment includes harvesting and indexing applications to create a search database and one or more indexes into the database. A scoring application determines the relevance of the objects, and a querying application locates objects in the database according to a search term. One or more of the indexes may be implemented by a hash table or other suitable data structure, where algorithms provide for adding objects to the indexes and searching for objects in the indexes. A ranking scheme sorts searchable items according to an estimate of the frequency that the items will be used in the future. Multiple indexes enable a combined prefix title and full-text content search of the database, accessible from a single search interface.
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37 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for providing search results to a user, the method comprising:
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accessing a group of items;
ranking each of the items based at least in part on a last access time and a class associated with the item, the class indicating a frequency of use of the item;
searching the group of items for a set of matching items; and
displaying at least some of the matching items according to the items'"'"' ranking. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for ranking an item among a group of items for a desktop search, the method comprising:
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if the item has been previously opened using the desktop search, assigning a score to the item based on the time it was last opened using the desktop search;
otherwise, assigning a score to the item based on its last-use date, and penalizing the score based on a class associated with the item, the class indicating a frequency of use of the item; and
displaying the item in response to a search query, the item displayed according to the score. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer program product for providing search results to a user, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium containing computer program code for performing a method comprising:
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accessing a group of items;
ranking each of the items based at least in part on a last access time and a class associated with the item, the class indicating a frequency of use of the item;
searching the group of items for a set of matching items; and
displaying at least some of the matching items according to the items'"'"' ranking. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A computer program product for ranking an item among a group of items for a desktop search, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium containing computer program code for performing a method comprising:
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if the item has been previously opened using the desktop search, assigning a score to the item based on the time it was last opened using the desktop search;
otherwise, assigning a score to the item based on its last-use date, and penalizing the score based on a class associated with the item, the class indicating a frequency of use of the item; and
displaying the item in response to a search query, the item displayed according to the score. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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