Personalized Indexing And Searching For Information In A Distributed Data Processing System

• US 20070271247A1
• Filed: 07/25/2007
• Published: 11/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Brown, Michael, Cooper, Michael, Best, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 7,865,494 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation

Abstract

Personalized searching including providing in a search portal a personal search term list; receiving from a user a navigation identification message; and inserting index records in a personalized search index. Inserting index records in a personalized search index typically comprises retrieving a document from a navigation location and indexing the navigation location and keywords from the personal search term list that occur in the retrieved document. A navigation identification message may comprise a search keyword and inserting index records in a personalized search index may include indexing the search keyword with the navigation location in the personalized search index. Embodiments typically include creating and transmitting to users, in dependence upon the personalized search index, search criteria, and user identification, responses to search query messages.

Claims

1. A method of personalized searching for information in a distributed data processing system, the method comprising:

providing in a search portal a personal search term list;

receiving from a user a navigation identification message comprising a user identification for the search portal and a navigation location; and

inserting index records in a personalized search index in dependence upon the user identification, the navigation location, and the personal search term list.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein inserting index records in a personalized search index further comprises:

retrieving a document from the navigation location; and

indexing, in the personalized search index, the navigation location and keywords from the personal search term list that occur in the retrieved document.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the navigation identification message further comprises a search keyword and inserting index records in a personalized search index further comprises indexing the search keyword with the navigation location in the personalized search index.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein providing a personal search term list further comprises:

receiving in the search portal from the user a search query message comprising search criteria and the user identification; and

storing the search criteria in the personal search term list.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the navigation identification message further comprises a search keyword and providing a personal search term list further comprises storing the search keyword in the personal search term list.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein providing a personal search term list further comprises receiving from the user and adding to the personal search term list a keyword selected by the user from within a document.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein providing a personal search term list further comprises making the personal search term list available to the user for editing.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the search portal comprises a server further comprising a search engine operating in dependence upon the personalized search index.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the personal search term list comprises search keywords of interest to the user.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising assigning priority to index entries in the personalized search index.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein assigning priority comprises counting the number of times a navigation location is received in navigation identification messages.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein assigning priority comprises counting the number of times a keyword from the personal search term list occurs in a document.

13. A system for personalized searching for information in a distributed data processing system, the system comprising:

means for providing in a search portal a personal search term list;

means for receiving from a user a navigation identification message comprising a user identification for the search portal and a navigation location; and

means for inserting index records in a personalized search index in dependence upon the user identification, the navigation location, and the personal search term list.

14. A computer program product for personalized searching for information in a distributed data processing system, the computer program product comprising:

a recording medium;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for providing in a search portal a personal search term list;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving from a user a navigation identification message comprising a user identification for the search portal and a navigation location; and

means, recorded on the recording medium, for inserting index records in a personalized search index in dependence upon the user identification, the navigation location, and the personal search term list.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein means for inserting index records in a personalized search index further comprises:

means, recorded on the recording medium, for retrieving a document from the navigation location; and

means, recorded on the recording medium, for indexing, in the personalized search index, the navigation location and keywords from the personal search term list that occur in the retrieved document.

16. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein the navigation identification message further comprises a search keyword and means for inserting index records in a personalized search index further comprises means, recorded on the recording medium, for indexing the search keyword with the navigation location in the personalized search index.

17. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein means for providing a personal search term list further comprises:

means, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving in the search portal from the user a search query message comprising search criteria and the user identification; and

means, recorded on the recording medium, for storing the search criteria in the personal search term list.

18. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein the navigation identification message further comprises a search keyword and means for providing a personal search term list further comprises means, recorded on the recording medium, for storing the search keyword in the personal search term list.

19. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein means for providing a personal search term list further comprises means, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving from the user and means, recorded on the recording medium, for adding to the personal search term list a keyword selected by the user from within a document.

20. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein means for providing a personal search term list further comprises means, recorded on the recording medium, for making the personal search term list available to the user for editing.