Administration Console to Select Rank Factors

• US 20080016053A1
• Filed: 08/01/2006
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Farhang, Dax, Frieden, Kurt
• Application Number:
  US11/461,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20080016053A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

An administration console can allow a user to input in indication of their relative weight of search-independent ranks and text matching. The system can use the relative weight to order the results of searches.

Claims

1. A computer-based search system comprising:

An administration console that allows a user to input an indication of the relative weight of search-independent ranks and text matching; and

a search component to use the relative weight indication to order the results of searches.

2. The computer-based search system of claim 1, wherein the administration console uses a graphical element to allow users to select the relative weight.

3. The computer-based search system of claim 2, wherein the administration console uses a slider to allow users to select the relative weight.

4. The computer-based search system of claim 1, wherein the search logic uses connections between users and documents to create the search independent ranks.

5. The computer-based search system of claim 1, wherein the search logic uses connections between tags and documents to create the search independent ranks.

6. The computer-based search system of claim 1, wherein the search system uses matrix operations to create the search independent ranks.

7. The computer-based search system of claims 1, wherein the search system uses a linear combination of the search independent ranks and the text matching to order the search results, wherein a relative weight indication is used to determine the linear combination.

8. A computer-based search system comprising:

an administration console to input indications of the importance object ranking factors; and

search logic that uses the indications to determine objects search-independent ranks, the search independent ranks being used to order the results of searches.

9. The computer-based search system of claim 8, wherein the administrative console uses graphical elements to allow users to select the indications.

10. The computer-based search system of claim 9, wherein sliders are used to allow users to select the indications.

11. The computer-based search system of claim 8, wherein the administration console displays default values of the indications.

12. The computer-based system of claim 8, wherein the indications include indications that concern how rank is applied to documents.

13. The computer-based system of claim 8, wherein the indications include indications that concern how rank is applied to tags.

14. The computer-based system of claim 8, wherein the indications include indications that concern how rank is applied to users.

15. The computer-based system of claim 8, wherein the administration console allows the user to select an indication of how the importance of certain actions to the ranks decreases over time.

16. A computer-based search system comprising:

an administration console that allows a user to select an indication of how the importance of certain actions to search-independent ranks decreases over time; and

search component to update the search independent ranks using the indication.

17. The computer-based search system of claim 16, wherein the indication is a half life indication.

18. The computer-based search system of claim 16, wherein the indication determines the decrease of the importance of a user viewing an object over time.

19. The computer-based search system of claim 16, wherein the indication determines the decrease of the importance of a user tagging an object over time.

20. A computer-based search system comprising:

an administration console that allows users to select at least one indication pertaining to search independent rank;

a search component to use the indication to order the results of searches; and

a statistics collection component to collect statistics concerning user interaction with search results pages;

wherein the administration console allows the display of comparisons of statistics collected on searches different indications.

21. The computer-based search system of claims 20, wherein the indication is a weight of search indication ranks and text matching.

22. The computer-based search system of claim 20, where the indication is an object factor ranking indication that is used to create search independent ranks for objects.

23. The computer-based search system of claim 20, wherein the indication indicates how the importance of certain actions on search-independent ranks declines over time.

24. The computer-based search system of claim 20, wherein the statistics include information concerning the order of user selected objects from a search.

25. The computer-based search system of claim 24, wherein the administration console display a comparison of the order of selected objects on searches with the different indication values.