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CONCEPT-AWARE RANKING OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS WITHIN A COMPUTER NETWORK

  • US 20080033932A1
  • Filed: 06/27/2007
  • Published: 02/07/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • extracting a set of concepts from a set of electronic documents from a computer network;

    constructing a graph having nodes interconnected by edges, wherein each of the nodes in the graph represents an electronic document in the set of documents and a concept extracted from that electronic document, and further wherein each of the edges in the graph represents a link from a first one of the electronic documents to a second one of the electronic documents for a corresponding one of the concepts;

    assigning a rank to each node in the graph based on a number of incoming edges connecting to the node; and

    responding to a query with a list containing a subset of the nodes, wherein the list is sorted according to the rank assigned to the nodes.

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