METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DOCUMENTS
First Claim
1. A method for establishing relationship between documents in term of a user'"'"'s operation upon a document search result, wherein the document search result is obtained from a search based on one or more search queries, the method comprising:
- monitoring the user'"'"'s operation upon the document search result;
obtaining one or more documents selected by the user according to the operation and storing a related document list for the selected documents, anddepicting a document relationship according to the related document list by using at least the one or more search queries.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for establishing documents relationship based on user'"'"'s operation upon search result. When a user uses search engine to search for documents with a query in repository, the search result may be a list of ranked documents, and these documents may contain a lot of relationship in term of the specific query. If the user clicks some search result further, and if the click and open operation meet certain conditions, for example exceed a period of time, the clicked document could be deemed as related to the search query. Furthermore it could be inferred that there is a strong relationship between different documents clicked by the user. The present invention records the relationship between documents and presents it to the user when necessary.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for establishing relationship between documents in term of a user'"'"'s operation upon a document search result, wherein the document search result is obtained from a search based on one or more search queries, the method comprising:
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monitoring the user'"'"'s operation upon the document search result; obtaining one or more documents selected by the user according to the operation and storing a related document list for the selected documents, and depicting a document relationship according to the related document list by using at least the one or more search queries. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An apparatus of establishing relationship between documents in term of a user'"'"'s operation upon a document search result, wherein the document search result is obtained from a search based on one or more search queries:
- the apparatus comprising;
a means for monitoring the user'"'"'s operation upon the search result, and obtaining one or more documents selected by the user according to the operation; a means for storing a related document list for the selected document(s); and a means for obtaining a document relationship according to the related document list, wherein, the document relationship is depicted at least by using the one or more search queries. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
- the apparatus comprising;
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21. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions that, when executed by a computer, results in establishing relationship between documents in term of a user'"'"'s operation upon a document search result, wherein the document search result is obtained from a search based on one or more search queries, by:
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monitoring a user'"'"'s operation upon the search result; obtaining one or more documents selected by the user according to the operation and storing a related document list for the selected documents, and depicting a document relationship according to the related document list by using at least the one or more search queries.
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