Search engine with augmented relevance ranking by community participation

• US 20070112761A1
• Filed: 06/28/2006
• Published: 05/17/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Xu, Zhichen, Walther, Eckart, Lu, Qi, Berkhin, Pavel, Mao, Jianchang, Ku, David, Tam, Chung-Man, Rose, Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 8,086,605 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for ranking a result set. The method according to one embodiment comprises selecting an item from the result set, selecting a user profile from one or more user profiles and selecting one or more items of personalized information from the selected user profile. A rank is calculated for the item on the basis of the selected one or more items of personalized information and the selected item in the result set is ranked in accordance with the calculated rank.

Claims

1. A method of ranking one or more items in a result set, the method comprising:

selecting an item from the result set;

selecting a user profile from one or more user profiles;

selecting one or more items of personalized information from the selected user profile;

calculating a rank for the item on the basis of the selected one or more items of personalized information; and

ranking the selected item in the result set in accordance with the calculated rank.