METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING USER PERSONALITY TYPE TO IMPROVE THE ORGANIZATION OF DOCUMENTS RETRIEVED IN RESPONSE TO A SEARCH QUERY
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method of organizing a set of documents retrieved in response to a search query, the method comprising:
- receiving a search query from a user;
obtaining an identified personality type for the user, the identified personality type classifying the user with respect to one or more personality characteristics;
identifying a set of documents responsive to the search query;
assigning a score to each identified document based upon a correlation between personality-usage data for each document and the identified-personality type of the user, the personality-usage data for each document describing at least one of a number, frequency, and percentage of users who have previously accessed the document who are deemed to possess one or more particular personality characteristic classifications; and
organizing the documents based at least in part on the assigned score.
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Abstract
A user'"'"'s document preferences are affected by his or her personality. The present invention provides improved organization of documents collected in response to a search query based at least in part upon identified Personality Type data of the user performing the search and Personality Usage Data collected from a plurality of other users who previously accessed said documents. A search query is received from a user along with personality information for that user. In response to said query, a list of responsive documents is identified and organized based at least in part upon one or more personality characteristics of the user performing the search and a correlation with Personality Usage Data for the responsive documents. As used herein, Personality Usage Data for a particular document comprises a tally and/or frequency of users who previously accessed that document for each of a plurality of different personality characteristics and/or combinations of characteristics.
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25 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method of organizing a set of documents retrieved in response to a search query, the method comprising:
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receiving a search query from a user;
obtaining an identified personality type for the user, the identified personality type classifying the user with respect to one or more personality characteristics;
identifying a set of documents responsive to the search query;
assigning a score to each identified document based upon a correlation between personality-usage data for each document and the identified-personality type of the user, the personality-usage data for each document describing at least one of a number, frequency, and percentage of users who have previously accessed the document who are deemed to possess one or more particular personality characteristic classifications; and
organizing the documents based at least in part on the assigned score. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer implemented method of organizing a set of documents retrieved in response to a search query, the method comprising:
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receiving a search query from a user;
obtaining identified personality type data for the user, the identified personality type data classifying the user with respect to one or more personality characteristics;
identifying a set of documents responsive to the search query;
assigning a score to each identified document based upon a correlation between the identified-personality type data of the user and stored data associated with the document, the stored data indicating how user partiality towards the document is likely to be influenced by one or more user personality characteristic classifications; and
organizing the documents based at least in part on the assigned score. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A computer implemented method of organizing a set of documents retrieved in response to a search query, the method comprising:
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receiving a search query from a user;
obtaining identified personality type data for the user, the identified personality type data classifying the user with respect to one or more personality characteristics;
identifying a set of documents responsive to the search query;
assigning a score to each identified document based upon a correlation between the identified-personality type data of the user and stored data associated with the document, the correlation indicating a degree of partiality that the user is likely to have towards the document as a result of the user'"'"'s classification with respect to one or more personality characteristics. - View Dependent Claims (25)
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